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Rula Jebreal

Miral

Written by the much-admired Italo-Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, Miral is a novel that focuses on remarkable women whose lives unfold in the turbulent political climate along the borders of ...

Miral

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Jean-Marie Périer

Get Lost

You have to see it to believe it: in 2010, men and women are still being banished from their families for loving someone of their own gender. “It’s within families that homophobia ...

Get Lost

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Rubina Ali

Slumgirl Dreaming

From Mumbai’s slum to Hollywood’s glitter: Rubina, the little star from Slumdog Millionaire who moved the whole world, tells her extraordinary story. I’m Rubina and I’m nine years old. My life ...

Slumgirl Dreaming

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Krystel Cahanin-Caillaud

I Had an Out-of-Body Experience

Krystel was involved in a serious car accident the day before her final exams. She is declared clinically dead upon arriving in the hospital, and she spends four weeks in a coma. During those ...

I Had an Out-of-Body Experience

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Édouard Cortès

A Path of Promises

Mathilde and Édouard Cortès walked the 6000km between Paris and Jerusalem. An incredible human adventure, both physically and spiritually. 17th June 2007, on the steps of Notre-Dame de Paris, ...

A Path of Promises

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Sampat Pal

I, Sampat Pal, Warrior in a Pink Sary

For the past two years, deep in the Uttar Pradesh province, one of the poorest parts of India, a woman has taken the reigns of an uprising. A women’s revolution, a revolt of the mistreated, of ...

I, Sampat Pal, Warrior in a Pink Sary

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Isabelle Aubry

The First time, I Was Six …

Every year in France, thousands of children are sexually abused. Three times out of four, it is within their own families. Almost every time, both the child and the people around keep quiet. ...

The First time, I Was Six …

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Geneviève Casasus

I Started With a Drink

The exceptional story of a woman who became an alcoholic at a very young age, while she worked as an air hostess for a big national company. Like most alcoholic women, she denies having this ...

I Started With a Drink

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Christophe Mangelle

Cancer!

Aged 28, he fights for his life and tells us how beautiful it is. At the age of 20, Christophe was told he had cancer. Despite his existence falling apart at the seams, he conquers his illness. ...

Cancer!

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Laure Joanin-Llobet

The 7 of Spandau

The chaplains of Albert Speer, Rudolf Hess, and other nazi criminals judged in Nuremberg, locked up in the Spandau prison, tell their stories. Between 1947 and 1987, seven nazi ex-dignitaries, ...

The 7 of Spandau

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Ani Chäying Drolma

My Voice for Freedom

The exceptional testimony of Ani Choying, A Buddhist nun who has been fighting for the freedom of Young Nepalese girls for more than fifteen years. Ani Choying is a fighter. She has been fighting ...

My Voice for Freedom

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Gérard Klein

I Met Incredible People

One day, I decided to turn my life around. To stop doing television, not to do L’instit anymore, even though it was such a big part of my life, and to become simply Gerard again. Spend time with ...

I Met Incredible People

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