Director
The United States is the only country not to have ratified the International Convention on the Rights of the Child and minors are tried as adults, from the age of 9 years. This investigation, carried out in two prisons, in Texas and Utah, shows their daily life. Journalists were able to meet young detainees, including a 16-year-old boy sentenced to spend four decades behind bars. The latter tells about his daily life in the cell and the means he uses to last until his release.
Editor
Four couples are getting married. They come from very different environments, and follow different customs and rituals. Marion and Jean, Catholics, will celebrate their wedding at the Chartres Cathedral. Natacha and Mike, in their thirties, want to get married according to the Jewish tradition. Sarah and Ousseynou are Muslims. She is of Moroccan origin, he is of Senegalese origin. Both dream of celebrating a wedding worthy of the Thousand and One Nights. Sonia and Stéphane have already been married and each has two children. Unable to remarry religiously in church, they go for a secular wedding in a casino.
Director
When it comes to sex, America is a country of contradictions. They are the highest producers and consumers of porn in the world, brothels are legal and big business in Nevada and yet in conservative states like Texas, sex and sexuality are demonised and abstinence encouraged. In the last few years, a wave of puritanism has swept parts of the country and many believe that abstinence is the solution to problems such as unwanted teen pregnancy and the spread of STDs. People are afraid to talk about sex and consequentially many teenagers are growing up ignorant about condoms and contraception; resulting in a teen pregnancy rate of 8% (4 times higher than that of France). On the other side of the coin students at the prestigious Yale university, organise a controversial annual ’Sex Week’ including discussions, workshops and provocative plays. They are demanding sexual freedom, the right to information and denouncing the hypocrisy in American society on this subject.
