Sophie BENSADOUN

Sophie BENSADOUN

Paris

Born in Limoges, graduate of the FEMIS, she has directed more than thirty documentaries for France Télévisions, 26 and 52 mn as well as several scientific films for the CNRS. She makes films about everything that interests her. Although the subjects are all different, they all have a societal theme, the common points being: vulnerability and solidarity, the invention of oneself and of a world.

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A pandemic is a complex phenomenon, an invariant for humans in their environment. In fact, from the Neolithic era to the present day, from the cattle plague to Sars-Cov-2, the emergence of new infectious diseases is often the result of changes that humans force on their environment. The emergence of a global health crisis in 2020 is a real warning sign on the uses of life. In this documentary, discover how biologists, anthropologists, mathematicians and historians can help us learn…

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Pandemic
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In the prospect of the European elections on 25 May 2014, this series of four films revisits some issues about Europe. The third film takes a look back on the European project that was related to preserving Peace, which had been based on an economic agreement with the idea of building Europe as a more political entity. The link thus created is now proving to be rather false and is largely part of the citizen's dislike of Europe. The feeling of disempowerment of citizens is real when faced…

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From past to present...
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In the prospect of the European elections on 25 May 2014, this series of four films revisits some issues about Europe. The final and fourth film in the series addresses the sovereignty of each state and the difficulties encountered in working together. The functioning of the various governing bodies of Europe (Councils, Parliament and committees) is briefly described.

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What power for the citizen?
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In the prospect of the European elections on 25 May 2014, this series of four films revisits some issues about Europe. The first film in the series is a depiction of the European citizenship that emerged in 1992 with the Maastricht Treaty. It grants a unique new political status to citizens: that of being a citizen of another state from their own. In this respect, it is carrying a new vision.

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A European citizen
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In the prospect of the European elections on 25 May 2014, this series of four films revisits some issues about Europe. The second film is a discussion about the notion of European identity. Being a European citizen entitles all nationals of its 28 member countries to the same rights, which raises the question of rights harmonisation among nations with extremely diverse cultures and social practices. What do we have in common? Is there a European identity?

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E pluribus unum?
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To address the societal concerns raised by the impact of natural and artificial radioactivity on humans and the environment, seven laboratories of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics (IN2P3) of the CNRS have pooled their resources to create a national platform for radioactivity analysis: the Becquerel Network. Patrick Chardon and Addil Sellam who are engineers in two of the seven network member laboratories explain its advantages. Enabling on-site interventions,…

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Becquerel network (The)
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In the 19th century, Jean-Baptiste André Godin, a socialist captain of industry, decided to bring to his workers the products of their work, as an equivalent of wealth. He became an architect and built the Familistère in Aisne, where 2000 people lived on for nearly a century. Michel Lallement, sociologist, introduces J.-B. A. Godin and explains his approach. It was not a utopian construct but rather a practical project, a model of life building upon a reformed housing improving the health…

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Familistère de Guise (The)
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With the short-term depletion of fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, coal, etc...) and the deterioration of our environment looming, the use of renewable power sources is becoming essential. The energy transition has thus become one of the major technological and scientific challenges of the 21st century, with non-carbon renewable power sources representing a major alternative to fossil fuels. However, their exceptional potential is strongly offset by the storage problems caused by the intermittent…

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Renewable energy and the storage challenge
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Interviewed in the Montpellier botanical garden (France), Yldiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, an ethnologist from the Montpellier Center for Functional and Evolving Ecology, evokes in this short film the social sciences interest in the connections between society and nature. Man has always transformed nature to appropriate it and to domestic it. These reciprocal links boost the construction of the civilizations history and of our identity.

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Mankind and Nature, the same history?
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Society has a growing interest in the economic value of services given by Nature. Facing this demand, getting stronger and stronger, evaluation tools have been developed. Jean-Michel Salles, an economist of the environment at the Montpellier Laboratory for theorical and applied economy, describes in this short film the main methods which allow to estimate the price of Nature.

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How Much Is Nature?

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