Philippe Molins

Rascar Capac, the sinister creature featured on Hergé's album The Seven Crystal Balls (1948), has left its mark on many generations of readers. To draw it, the Belgian cartoonist was probably inspired by a mummy exhibited in the first pre-Columbian exhibition organized by the Brussels Cinquantenaire Museum in 1923. Two intrepid archaeologists embark on a fascinating journey to reconstruct the story of the mysterious mummy.

Mike Magidson, an American-born film director, lived in France for 20 years with all the comforts of modern society before taking on a unique challenge: attempting to survive alone on an ice floe, subsistence fishing and hunting like an Inuit in Greenland. Alone in the heart of the polar winter battling with the Arctic ice pack and its ruthless laws, Michael turns to the techniques, know-how and reflexes of the Inuits who have thrived in the Arctic for thousands of years. A story of the human journey, Call of the Ice is a film about learning, with its failures and pain, but also victories in the face of adversity.

In the Carpathian Mountains, there are just five shepherd dogs to protect a herd of three hundred sheep from wolves in the region. A lone wolf wanders in search of his prey with assistance from a crow. But the attack has to be timed perfectly or it would result in instant death by the dogs or a shotgun by the shepherd. Explore the conflicted relationship between man and wolves that has subsisted for decades in these regions.

The lifetime of the great Argentinian man of letters Jorge Luis Borges through narration and interviews of such key players in his life as Leonor de Acevedo —his mother—, María Kodama —his second wife—, and Adolfo Bioy Casares —his best friend and collaborator for decades.