Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic feature-length documentary.  This poetic and character-driven film follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links.

12 months expedition, 18 000 nautical miles, 21 legs, 9 seas, 9 countries, to call attention to the necessity for international initiatives in favour of the environment. Most aspects of this change are alarming, yet we have met everywhere an enormous individual, and incresingly collective, will to protect our environment. From the Inuits to the Kuna Indians, from Silicone Valley to New York, from Vancouver to Miami - everywhere and all along the 40,000 kilometers of our journey, we have witnessed various initiatives whose purpose is to find solutions.

France, Normandy: the most “nuclearized” region on earth. With humor and seriousness Esther Hoffenberg winds her way through the labyrinth of a well-kept secret: the local recycling of spent nuclear fuel and storage of nuclear waste. By interviewing inhabitants and political, associative and industrial representatives, the filmmaker unveils many aspects of an anguishing reality, as invisible as it is irreversible. What does living in nuclear land mean?

We find ourselves at the very core of the major political and ecological issues of this millennium, in France and everywhere else.

The Wayana Indians are one of the last tribes of French Amazonia. They live in a true terrestrial paradise which has today been invaded and occupied by hunters desperate for gold. Even though they are victims of gold diggers trafficking, of mercury pollution and of an ecological catastrophe, the Wayana refuse to disappear into silence and indifference.

The ecology of the oral cavity is a multilayered habitat inhabited by countless microorganisms. The video informs about the ecological equilibrium in this biotope as well as disruptive factors that might lead to caries and gingivitis. Only in an ecologically stable oral cavity do teeth and gums remain permanently protected from damage. Regular oral hygiene keeps teeth and gums healthy up to an advanced age.