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End of the Rainbow explores the human dimensions of industrial gold mining in two remote locations. As the mine's structures and equipment are dismantled in Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, then transported and reconstructed to begin gold processing in Guinea, West Africa, what unfolds is an elegiac portrait of the changes brought by the mine and of the universal human desire for a better life. Written by Robert Nugent

A film by Jean-Pierre Gibrat recently co-produced by Trans Europe Film, ARTE France and CNRS Images & Media entitled "Alice in cockroaches" highlighted the results of research of the European project LURE whose aim was the creation and management a society composed of both animals and robots. EPFL participated in this project with two units: the Swarm-Intelligent Systems Group (SWIS) and the Autonomous Systems Laboratory (ISL). SWIS group has contributed to the project by developing aspects of multilevel modeling, as well as the monitoring tool based on vision SwisTrack . The LSA has developed robots used in this study.

Body and nine, smooth and wrinkled at a time. Dazzled by the light, burned by the power of the first breath. The child is born. Corps old, wrinkled by time and the writing life. Suspended a wind that cleared the old man will die. " The issue of birth as that of death is present in the photographic work of Valerie Winckler. She presents here a film that juxtaposes these two moments of transition, these strong and violent end of life.

In the sixteenth century, the first missionaries settled in eastern North America, forged friendly relations with the Hurons and Algonquins. Then with the arrival of trappers and soldiers, many tribes took fright and fled. But the European offensive began in earnest in the seventeenth century. Whites land ownership on the grounds that the Indians did not cultivate. Wars and epidemics decimated the Indians ... Paintings, sketches and drawings of the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries show the thrill of conquest, the desolation of battles. This documentary, while not ignoring the bloodshed, says the cultural destruction. For Indians, the soil is made from the dust of bones, flesh and blood of ancestors. The arrival of whites, with their firearms and their ownership concept, breaks this harmony with nature. But it also inaugurated an unprecedented experience of confrontation between cultures and reflection on the other. The film ends on a plan of the Black Hills, sacred mountains, deserted by the spirits, leaving room for portraits of U.S. presidents carved into the rock ... The genocide of American Indians who, four centuries, rose from 7 million to $ 400 000, doubles as ethnocide.

One day, rather than drawing four bison, a primitive artist has done one with four strokes ... This conceptualisation has to pass the "number of buffalo" in the "number" for short. Consequently, men had to learn to conserve numbers. Many cultures have developed complex digital mapping equipment, accompanied by gestures grammars whose fingers were the main actors. It is impossible to overstate what has been given the use of paper, and then the ten signs with 0. Since then, the empire of numbers has been expanding, colonizing human life. Philippe Truffault traces the history of this empire and visually entertaining. Compound based on the book by Denis Guedj, the film allows us to materialize the development of our mathematical thinking. The concrete examples, sometimes iconoclastic, succeed to express throughout the documentary, in short sequences and striking, changes in numbers. A descriptive comment and perfectly complements a visual explicit concern for the scientific truth.

Armenian genocide survivor, Aram wants to rebuild his life torn apart by founding a family. It is in America and chose to photograph a bride, Armenian as well. Torn between the heavy memories of the past and hope this dun where unborn children would fill the holes left in the family photo with the killing of his parents, brothers and sisters, Aram stands tall. But Seta, his young wife, is barren. Collapsing while the dreams of revival. The play is based on everyday situations, dialogues from the concrete to a slow painful journey into personal and collective tragedy. It never does in the dark pathos, evacuates the false good feeling to truly artistic work. It leaves it to each individual daiguiser critical thinking, without drawing the viewer into a superficial anger or emotion junk. It presents some snapshots dune life flashback memories of the narrator, poignant testimony where the humor flows as free range and the generosity of actors is gift of flesh and soul.

1950, 1952, 1954. Each year, for the anniversary of the speach of the 18th of June 1940, De Gaulle goes to the mont Valérien. Each year older, each year lonelier. 1948, 1950, 1952.

1947. Lord Mountbatten had been named the last viceroy of India and sent to New Delhi. Lady Edwina, his wife, was one of the great ladies of the English aristocracy, but at the same time one of the most defiant of social conventions.

Crossing over from childhood into adolescence. Discussions beside the swimming pool, a vantage point for observing life. The water reveals hangups, fears, excitement, blossomings. Confidential exchanges.

The son of a sausage-maker, Michel Simon was conscripted into the Swiss Army at the start of World War I, but was thrown out through a combination of tuberculosis and general insubordination. He was variously a boxer, photographer, general handyman and right-wing anarchist, finally becoming a stage actor in Geneva in 1920...

Patrick jeudy, ancien médecin colonial, fut affecté en Indochine en pleine guerre d'indépendance. C'est là qu'il rencontre et apprend à connaître quatre lieutenants : Hans, Bernard, Jean et Le Pirate. Il trace la vie de ces quatre lieutenants, qui paieront de leur vie la Défense des intérêts français, sans aucune reconnaissance de la Nation.