In the heart of this documentary, a fundamental question: how the chemicals which contaminate our food chain are they tested, estimated, then done regulate?

Why is it necessary to save the onion of Sisco in the Cape Corsica, the corn of Catamarca in Argentina and the cheese of estives of Pyrenees from Bearn? This food is a part of the list " products in dangers " according to the international organization Slow Food. This foundation for the biodiversity identified 300 food to be protected all over the world. 300 Sentinels who appear in a kind of Noah's Ark of food and whom it is necessary to protect against the attacks of the food-processing industry.

Urban Roots follows the urban farming phenomenon in Detroit though a group of farmers taking matters into their own hands. Urban Roots is a timely, moving and inspiring film that speaks to a nation grappling with collapsed industrial towns and the need to forge a sustainable and prosperous future.

Throughout the year a world of food is lying on our plate and changes the world. Has our food, from being both a temptation for our taste buds and a source of social gathering, degenerated to a matter of conscience?

Under what conditions is it being produced? Fish-breeding ponds polluting the environment, patches of bush being chopped down to have cattle grazing and beans also have their dark side: shortage of water in the region of origin.If we want to behave like conscious consumers we will have to clear a path through a minefield of moral choices and dilemmas.

Food Stamped is an informative and humorous documentary film following a couple as they attempt to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet on a food stamp budget. Through their adventures they consult with members of U.S. Congress, food justice organizations, nutrition experts, and people living on food stamps to take a deep look at America’s broken food system.

What's On Your Plate? is a witty and provocative documentary produced and directed by award-winning Catherine Gund about kids and food politics.

Filmed over the course of one year, the film follows two eleven-year-old multi-racial city kids as they explore their place in the food chain. Sadie and Safiyah take a close look at food systems in New York City and its surrounding areas. With the camera as their companion, the girl guides talk to each other, food activists, farmers, new friends, storekeepers, their families, and the viewer, in their quest to understand what's on all of our plates.

Everybody's beautiful, slim, in shape. It seems in the world everybody has to look like this. Who of us has never fought with too many kilos and a body that doesn't like? Going on a diet is a fatigue that everybody knows. But for someone this is a more difficult, almost impossible challenge . There's someone, in fact, that is really far from the reigned beauty model, someone who has not just some more kilos, someone really fat, very fat. How is an extra large life in a world that wants you super-thin and in big shape?

A new scientific revolution is ongoing ! Our genome, this "great book of life " exultantly deciphered in the late 90's, brought few answers to our questioning.Cloned cats of different colors ? Real twins developing different pathologies ? The genome is in fact only a part of a much larger, and still unknown, frame named Epigenome by the scientists. Each of us have an Epigenome in constant evolution, according our way of life, our diet, our environment. Indeed this Epigenetic revolution deeply changes our understanding of the living. It opens a new point of view over aging and disease.

Ikouk is a young Inuit who lives on the ice field. He is always hungry, so much hungry that his mum can't feed him anymore. Ikouk has to find food on his own…

Each day, the Gaston Berger university restaurant in Senegal provides food for more than 5000 students. A food chain that works from dawn to dusk. This film shows the patient and careful processing of food as well as the working bodies of all those who are preparing and serving the meals.

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