With MY POSITIVE LIFE, Mark Strombach and Salwa Amin give a voice and face to people who have been living with HIV/AIDS for decades, in the first ever film on the subject. Six men and one woman aged between 60 and 72 each tell their own stories: underlying them is the common tale of a long life with the HI-virus. In a thoughtful, astute, sometimes bawdy and amusing manner, the protagonists recall the early days of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, their fears, and the countless changes in their lives, professions, and financial situations.

Alexandre Jollien was born in Switzerland in 1975 with a cerebral motor infirmity. Today a writer and philosopher, he has published two books "L'Eloge de la faiblesse" (Cerf, 1999) and "Le métier d'homme" (Le Seuil, 2002). For more than a year and a half, Joël Calmettes met with him. The film reveals an outstanding personality and an exceptional life, and echoes one of Alexandre Jollien's reflections: " I think that one of the opportunities in my life was to have felt weak and to have worked towards more progress".