Under the present Occupation Safety & Health law, workers of business sites where there are over 50 and under 300 employees, must be inspected by industrial medicine specialists from the agency in charge of the site’s health management (occupational environment inspection, health counsel, occupational disease counsel…). This movie starts out with the result of filming work site health management performed under this law for one year.

A look at the extreme lengths women go to in order to look younger. In an age-obsessed society, where women are considered to be over the hill at 40, a host of extreme, even barbaric treatments are available. In this report we discover creams made of viper venom, stem-cell injections, chemical peeling, or even deep peeling where the doctor

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.

The last decade has been marked by the increase of the middle class standard of living in the whole world. Vaccination drive have allowed the eradication of infectious diseases, like poliomyelitis. However, the last medical discovery are hardly available in the emerging country. Prevention is not seen as an profitable investment by pharmaceutical companies because they earn their money selling medicine. The architects of change of this episode are trying to change this logic.

The war in Vietnam continues.

The herbicides sprayed during the war have crippled more than three million Vietnamese.

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.

A growing number of cancer patients and scientists believe that the spread of various forms of cancer in Western countries is due to the deterioration of our environment. These new “cancer crusaders” say that we are exposed to tens of thousands of chemical substances every day, yet only 2 to 3% of them have undergone toxic testing. This investigative report brings us to the heart of a green war crucial to the health of those living in Switzerland, France and the USA.

SSR in medical colloquialism stands for Department of Care Rehabilitation in a hospital. In other words, a department where patients are accompanied after intensive care, so as to regain their autonomy and their life. These people are in transit. They wait to go back home or to find a place in a specialised institution.

The director learns she has breast cancer. It’s a complete shock. Will her life end tomorrow? How will she manage? The filmmaker in her decides to assist the patient as she searches for meaning. Seeking inner healing along with physical recovery, she uses her camera to weave a dialogue between conventional and alternative medicines. She explores every dimension of this disease that affects one woman in nine. Will she also have to lose her breast? She ponders the new Amazons, women who choose not to replace the breast.

Aging frightens us. But beyond appearances, does old age merely represent the end of life? Can aging be seen as a new departure? While our bodies become weaker, growing old can bring a greater sensitivity and awaken new sensations. Revealed in simple moments, aging highlights the fragility of physical existence, but also the intensity of the present moment. All over eighty, the characters strive to adapt to their physical limitations and to accept their changing desires and expectations.