Battements d’ailes sur le Fleuve

Joël Grare, Boris Jollivet

Birds and rivers have in common the crossing of landscapes from the mountains to the sea; the former through the air, the latter by carving their channels in the earth at the cost of a thousand meanders. Such a journey holds an unsuspected sonic world, a source of inspiration where boundaries blur. Here, sounds gathered along the water, broadcast in quadraphonic sound by audio-naturalist Boris Jollivet, mingle in a wild polyphony with the imitative music of composer-percussionist Joël Grare. A bestiary worthy of a cabinet of curiosities clashes with the timbres of an instrumentarium where the mineral, the plant, and the animal combine. Sonic realism gives way to a new imaginary folklore to better celebrate the fauna and flora in this ode to nature.

Perpetual Dawn

The Great Birdsong Concert of the Five Continents

Presented by Bernard Fort in homage to J.C. Roché

An enchanting route, the park of the former monastery of Saint Croix. Several hours of a sonic escapade through Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, Australia. Since the world began, day has always dawned somewhere, accompanied by the immense clamour of birds to greet it. With the fifth day began this uninterrupted concert which, since then, has revolved imperturbably around the earth, indifferent to the times, to the centuries that pass and that men count. An unimaginable sonic energy with no other ambition than to greet the day. A perpetual praise to dawn, to light, and to life. “Perpetual Dawn” allows us to hear, at the same time and in the same place, this gigantic aubade. The birds of five continents sing their marvellous melodies in unison. “Perpetual Dawn” allows the listener to travel the planet without having to worry about distances or time zones. The small hand of your watch allows you, at any time, to know where you are and what you are listening to by referring to the time indications on the programme and the location indications on the map.

photography © sylvain daulin

Insects

Proposé par : Estelle Contamin

Cette pièce parle du minuscule en voie d’extinction, de la survie, de l’adaptation, de la vie et du chaos. À la fois sous et sur terre, des insectes majestueux émanent avec des costumes de taille réalisés en partie à partir de matériaux recyclés ou détournés. Par un slam politique et engagé, la voix d’Aloise Sauvage décrit les conséquences du comportement de l’homme sur son environnement et sur lui-même. Le breaking sublime la gestuelle des insectes saccadée, rapide, sur quatre pattes et en tempo le plus souvent binaire. Les insectes vivent la pratique de la danse comme leur clé de survie. Par le sens, les valeurs et les projets collectifs ils réussissent tout de même à être, à avoir espoir malgré la fin infaillible.

Laëtitia Dosch

French-Swiss actress, author, and director, Laëtitia Dosch has established herself as one of the leading figures in French-language cinema and theatre. Awarded for several of her performances, she develops a sensitive, free, and committed body of work, which often questions our relationship with others, with the living, and with the most vulnerable beings.

Her commitment to the cause of animals is particularly strong. In 2024, she wrote and directed her first feature film, Le Procès du Chien, a fable that is both funny and profound, questioning the place of animals in our society and our responsibility towards them. This film demonstrates her desire to change perspectives through art and cinema.

Through her attachment to life, her sensitive perspective on the relationships between humans and animals, and her ability to bridge culture and commitment, Laëtitia Dosch fully embodies the values promoted by FESTIWILD. Her presence as godmother for this 5th edition sends a strong signal in favour of a society that is more respectful of life in all its forms.

photography ©

ImproviZashow

Theatrical improvisation show with 8 mischievous performers, 1 jocular master of ceremonies, and 1 one-man band; together they draw inspiration from audience themes suggested at the entrance and create simple, wild, and moving stories. Between Nature and Culture, improvisation takes its place to reconcile humans with their bodies and let their minds wander in the wilderness of the imagination.

For several years, the ZimproviZami·es troupe has been tickling the funny bones of the Diois region. Accompanied by Alin Curtet, 4 women and 4 men have adopted the codes of improvisation theatre for their great pleasure and that of the audience. They are a secretary, a farmer; they are an electrician, a dental technician; they play the role of an aircraft carrier commander or a garden gnome, they become a TV presenter or a zebra giraffe; they all have fun staging characters born from their imagination, based on themes proposed by the audience that very evening; live musical atmosphere with Franck on instruments.

photography © Stéphane Hugand

THE ICE RAFT

Directed by Jérôme Bouvier

Aboard a 15-metre sailboat, a crew sets off for another world, like astronauts conquering a distant planet. 

They set course for A23A… the oldest and largest of all icebergs. This giant, 70km long by 60km wide, 38 times the size of Paris, drifts like a comet in one of the most dangerous seas in the world, east of Cape Horn. 

Jérôme Bouvier est réalisateur et chef opérateur animalier reconnu, résidant dans la région. Il parcourt le monde depuis des années pour la télévision et le cinéma, aux côtés de Luc Jacquet et de Jacques Perrin notamment. Ses voyages et son activité l’amènent depuis des années à s’interroger sur la place du Sauvage sur notre planète. De formation scientifique, les 15 films qu’il a réalisés ont à coeur de décrypter et de vulgariser le fonctionnement du monde non humain et de ses liens avec les écosystèmes, souvent à travers le regard de témoins humains privilégiés. 

Photographie © Jérôme Bouvier

Jérôme Breton: “Deep Time Walk”

Since 2019, Jérôme Breton has been running workshops for reconnecting with the living for individuals and businesses, notably Deep Time Walks and Work That Reconnects workshops.

The Deep Time Walk covers 4.6 billion years of our Earth's history in 4.6 km (1m = 1 million years). This transformative experience takes place over 4 hours, outdoors.
A Deep Time Walk helps put into context humanity's rich ancestral heritage and offers a glimpse into the interconnectedness of all life. It makes participants aware that the Earth is not a static, passive backdrop on which humans reside, but a complex, interdependent set of active players who have within them the capacity to radically change the Earth.

crédit phohographique: Eric Lenoir

Has the earth fallen silent?

Pierre Tallaron – Cie Les outils sauvages

Has the earth fallen silent? is a walking performance designed for open-air spaces, blending immersive theatre, ecological awareness, and sensory experiences.
The audience is invited to follow a somewhat enigmatic character, a researcher-tracker at CNRSauvage specialising in animist poetics and metamorphosis dynamics. Through a route punctuated by stops, he offers instructions for sensory attention, unexpected scientific facts, and a captivating narrative that allow one to slowly and irresistibly enter into a sensory listening of all that lives around us.

Hello world

by Anne-Lise Koehler

10 species of animals, among many others, are born, live, and learn to live with each other along a river… The eagle owl takes flight to be born a second time and learn the night. The great crested grebe skims its fishing territory, becoming invisible and performing the dance of the algae. The kingfisher on its journey in search of a place in the sun. The European pond turtle, guided by the water and defying time. Leisler’s bat, which hears the evening symphony with its ears. The European beaver, this builder of riverbanks who cannot resist the scent of trees. The fire salamander, exploring both sides of the world, this strange marvel. The bittern, the reed bird that dreams of catching the moon. The great pike, which wishes to become colossal to live great adventures. And finally, the emperor dragonfly, this warrior whose armour is forged by the sun. All exclaiming: “Hello world!”.

Photography © 

ROMKO: “Randography”

What if, for the duration of a few pencil strokes, we learned to listen differently to the world around us? Young and old are invited to a creative walk combining discovery, collection and artistic creation. Along the way, everyone will collect natural elements, create compositions mixing textures, shapes and impressions, then experiment with the cyanotype technique to create a personal work inspired by and linked to our passage through this place. An artistic interlude in the heart of nature, between exploration, imagination and creation.

Romane Kolb is a nature illustrator and an artist committed to reflecting on our relationship with the living world. Through her projects, she explores the links between humans, natural environments and other life forms, combining creation, storytelling and awareness-raising. Her journey, enriched by landscape observation, drawing practice and artistic transmission, led her to create “La Randographie”: an immersive artistic approach that invites us to slow down, sharpen our gaze and transform an encounter with the living world into a sensitive experience. Through walking, writing, collecting and various artistic practices, she proposes to evolve our perception of the world around us and to question our place within it.

Photography: © ROMKO

Ernst ZÜCHER: “The forest – seat of collective intelligence?”

Forest engineer, doctor of natural sciences, professor and researcher in wood sciences at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ),Ernst Zürcher studies the temporal structures of trees (chronobiology) in particular. He is the author of numerous scientific articles.

Pamy’s Secrets

Samuel Villien – Take Care of Yourself Company

Pamy’s Secrets is a nature storytelling show. The storyteller gets these little secrets of life from his Grandpa and Grandma who used to tell him stories about the whys of nature to explain the origin of an animal or the peculiarity of a tree through imagination. It is also an opportunity to question our relationship with life. Taking care of nature also means taking care of the relationship we have with life, with others, and with ourselves. This show by the Take Care of Yourself Company attempts both to return to simple things, while casually addressing the disparities between city life and country life, as well as intergenerational differences.

Laurent Desvignes: “In the Footsteps of the Lynx”

Discreet, a symbol of the wild and a hymn to beauty, the lynx amazes, fascinates and intrigues despite the rare opportunities to encounter it. Put yourself in the animal's shoes to discover its territory and the challenges it faces on its journey.

Photography: © Aurélien Giraud

Caroline Audibert « Faisons pousser nos oreilles ! »

S’ensauvager par les pistes sonores

Depuis Ulysse, nous restons sourds aux chants du monde, oublieux des puissances partout à l’œuvre et des êtres vivants qui en procèdent. Les sirènes d’Homère chantent pourtant “tout ce qui advient sur la terre féconde” ; en les écoutant, le héros antique se faisait le premier “audionaute”. Dans son sillage, Caroline Audibert est partie à la rencontre des audionautes d’aujourd’hui qui naviguent à l’oreille à travers les sonorités de la Terre. Des Alpes à l’Amazonie, de la taïga russe aux laboratoires high-tech et jusque dans les lieux les plus abîmés, l’autrice redécouvre le monde à travers un sens racinaire et malmené : l’écoute. Au fil de ses pérégrinations, ses oreilles – et les nôtres – s’ouvrent, s’affinent, l’augmentent et l’engagent toujours plus avant dans une écologie du lien, voire de la réparation.
“Si nous faisions pousser nos oreilles, le monde en serait changé” : telle est la proposition de ce récit immersif, poétique et initiatique. Au cœur des vacillements planétaires, une invitation à rejoindre une communauté à l’écoute des chants de la Terre, qu’il ne tient qu’à nous de faire grandir.

photographie © Alexandra Sabathé

Around a worm

LM Créations

One is not born a worm-lover, one becomes one! All about the anatomy and engineering of earthworms for an understanding of soil life. This performance is a unique object: half scholarly lecture, half musical recital, a rigorous, whimsical, and sensual scientific awareness-raiser. It is delivered by a duo of actress-singer and musician, driven by a jazz drum kit with multiple sounds, punctuated by wink-songs embodied in the moment, for an astonishing journey beneath the earth!

Since 2005, the company LM Créations has hosted the writing work of singer-actress Sophie Accaoui: playful and well-researched puzzle performances, combining musical eclecticism, a taste for language, and a desire for de-compartmentalised culture. For LM Créations, Sophie Accaoui develops, in poetic texts and music, the precepts of Popular Education: to inform, to raise awareness, to emancipate for a chosen society.

A l’école du vivant : transformer notre environnement en récit partagé

Sabine Oppliger & Anne-Marie Lo Presti

What if we took inspiration from the living world to support social and ecological transition? Faced with current crises, our relationship with the living world offers a powerful way to reweave the collective bond. Inspired by the book "À l’école du vivant – S’éduquer par et pour la nature" (Actes Sud, 2025), this panel discussion with the authors explores how narratives transform our sensitive experiences into shared stories. Far more than individual awareness, this approach invites common eco-citizenship. By listening to the living world, we thus reinvent the foundations of a more just, equitable, and supportive society.

photography © C.Abeijón Martinez

Don't just stand there like a lemon!

Cie L’aplomb du Bahut

A scarecrow starts to move to catch the crow that is disturbing it. Conceived in the style of Tex Avery, the escalation of situations brings the set to life… and the scarecrow, against a backdrop of original electro-hip-hop musical creation using samples of farm and nature sounds. The dancer and choreographer, Natacha Faillet, has one foot in the artistic world and one foot in agriculture. The show is fuelled by her conception of the living, and the desire to question our relationship with nature in our society and in our agriculture.

Natacha moves as much in the field of dance as in the visual and plastic arts. She taught hip-hop dance from 2007 to 2015. A graduate of Fine Arts in graphic design, she worked as a graphic designer from 2008 to 2012 for the company Transe Express and the Gare à Coulisses, a hub for street arts. This immersion in a live performance creation venue brought her back to the desire to exploit her years of dance practice for personal choreographic work. She began creating in 2012 with the company Lo Piaa Loba. She was a performer for the company Des Pas Possibles between 2015 and 2016, and for the company Les Crazy Dolls from 2019. She created the company L’Aplomb du Dahu in 2019 and began writing her first show “Reste pas planté là !”.

Stardust

Directed by Cécile Verstraetern

Birds and humans coexist and interact in prison, hospital, and on stage. Bonds are formed and question everyone's place among living beings.

Tristan Plot: Passionate about birds since childhood, it was through observations, readings, and then university studies that Tristan trained in biology, ecology, and ethology. In 1999, he entered the professional world of semi-captive birds, working on various free-flight demonstration sites, where the bird training techniques were derived from falconry. A profound re-evaluation of these techniques led him to the artistic world, where for over twenty years he has been experimenting with gentle methods of educating and presenting his winged partners. With mediation and transmission at the heart of his work, he became a specialist in unusual projects involving birds. He notably practices therapeutic support with birds in prisons, hospitals, or with disabled workers. His educational and artistic approach is based on respect for and contemplation of living beings. It is in this spirit that he works with Pascal Quignard, Sylvère Petit, Séverine Chavrier, and many others.

Cécile Verstraeten is a director of documentaries and short fiction films. She has always slightly blurred the lines between the real and the imaginary, so she makes films that question the boundaries – and their porosity – between territories, beings, arts, between normality and abnormality, humanity and inhumanity, the living and the dead, between species… Always seeking new experiences and hybridisations, she aims to push further the interactions between imagined realities and realistic utopias…

Discovering the gravels of the Drôme

This outing aims to focus on what we generally do not see, or see so little of: pebbles, or more precisely, the gravels on the banks of the Drôme river. This walk, between the monastery and the meander opposite La Condamine (1.5 kilometres one way), will allow us to understand, from the mineral perspective, the formation and functioning of the river landscape: geological history, fluvial dynamics, the relationship between the mineral and the living… Beyond the naturalist dimensions, this hike will provide an opportunity to address the question of human relationships with the environment (aggregate extraction, drinking water…). This outing will be designed to be as enjoyable as possible, far from a lecture. It will be an adaptation of the theatricalised conference we have presented on this theme in various locations. With musician Boris Trouplin.

Jean-Louis Michelot is a geographer and naturalist. He has dedicated his professional life to the preservation of natural heritage. For the past fifteen years, he has sought to develop and share a sensitive approach to our relationship with the environment, combining knowledge, direct connection with nature, and artistic expression (writing, designing shows in nature or indoors…). He is the president of the association L'Atelier des Confins.

Photograph: © Alain Roux

Musical Nap – Sonic Immersion in the Sounds of Nature

Frédéric Cros

Sound and musical representation; settle in for a moment and listen to the sounds of Nature and wild fauna (rivers, waves, trickles, diurnal and nocturnal birds, birds of prey, amphibians, insects, leaves in the wind, rain and storm, the stag's roar, etc.); these accompanied by the musical sounds of the handpan, guitar, chimes, and rainstick; a space for sonic contemplation thanks to the sounds (recorded) that nature offers us.

Phasmes

Fanny Soriano, Vincent Brière et Voleak Ung – Cie Libertivore

Une ronde de feuilles, deux corps pour un phasme et une musique pour transcender l’espace, Phasmes nous invite à un voyage merveilleux ou rêve et réalité s’entrecroisent. Au gré des sentiers empruntés, les corps se métamorphosent. Empruntant au minéral au végétal et à l’animal, cette chimère va se déployer, interagir avec son environnement et peu à peu dévoiler sa nature humaine. Convié à épier cette intimité, le spectateur est saisi par de furtives apparitions : le duo se déploie et se contracte, faisant naître des figures abstraites et évocatrices, tels des phasmes sans queue ni tête… Dans un décor épuré, les artistes composent au sol comme en plein vol un duo de chair et d’âme entre cirque et danse. Leur corps-à-corps, d’une grande force visuelle nous offre a voir la beauté brute du monde à travers une danse sensuelle et physique.

photographie © Loïc Nys2

Dans les Bois

Le limaçon – trio StrassCardinal

Elodie Robine, Yoann Scheidt, Sylvain Meillan

Dans ce documentaire, Mindaugas Survila propose une immersion totale dans la vie sauvage, au plus près des habitants d’une des dernières forêts primaires de la Baltique. Sans musique et sans commentaire, la bande son du film s’étire au gré de captations sonores naturelles. Sur scène les compositions délicates du trio StrassCardinal s’allient parfaitement au monde forestier filmé par Mindaugas, tout en jeux de nuances et de timbres. Est-ce le cri d’un oiseau ou le rebond d’une baguette ? Percevez vous le son du vent ou la voix du violoncelle ? Laissez vous emmener Dans Les Bois pour vivre une expérience visuelle et sonore aussi ludique que poétique.

Il était une forêt

Hommage à Francis Hallé

« Il était une forêt » Réalisé par Luc Jacquet • Écrit par Francis Hallé, Luc Jacquet

Depuis des années, le cinéaste Luc Jacquet filme la nature, pour émouvoir et émerveiller les spectateurs à travers des histoires uniques et passionnantes. Sa rencontre avec le botaniste Francis Hallé a donné naissance à ce film patrimonial sur les ultimes grandes forêts primaires des tropiques, sanctuaires de la biodiversité planétaire.
Il était une forêt offre une plongée exceptionnelle dans ce monde sauvage resté dans son état originel, en parfait équilibre, où chaque organisme – du plus petit au plus grand – joue un rôle essentiel.. 

Francis Hallé, botaniste français, fervent défenseur des forêts primaires, a passé sa vie à regarder les arbres naître, grandir, puis mourir. Bien qu’ils soient muets et immobiles, il a constaté au fil du temps combien ils étaient surtout prodigieusement vivants, comme il se plaisait à le dire.

Né à Bourg en Bresse en 1967, Luc Jacquet passe son enfance à arpenter les montagnes de l’Ain. Comme il le dit lui-même, il aime vagabonder et se perdre dans les bois. C’est là qu’il apprend à se fondre dans la nature pour observer, au fil des saisons, le monde des animaux et des plantes.

Attiré par la science, il passe une maîtrise de biologie animale à l’université de Lyon I en 1991 puis prépare un DEA en gestion des milieux montagnards à l’université de Grenoble. Durant ses études, Luc participe à de nombreuses campagnes de terrain pour étudier le comportement animal et l’écologie de différentes espèces.

Photographie © Sarah Delben 

Rivières Sauvages : « le Léguer, histoire d’une reconquête »

Lucie Galland, Mélanbie Taquet

Premier grand barrage retiré pour faire revenir des espèces clés telles que le saumon, dans un contexte breton avec de forts enjeux agricoles impactant la qualité des eaux, l’histoire de la renaturation du Léguer est un important témoignage et un véritable succès puisque la rivière est aujourd’hui labellisée Site Rivières Sauvages. Avec l’association en charge de ce label présente sur place, plongez dans l’univers fascinant des rivières sauvages. Embarquez pour un voyage au fil de l’eau là où la nature retrouve sa liberté et sa splendeur grâce à l’engagement des acteurs d’une vallée. Et si la Drôme et ses affluents pouvaient faire partie de l’aventure ?

photographie © Lucie Galland

THE GREAT TIDE CIRCUS

Directed by Manuel Lefèvre and Alexis Barbier

On the Breton coast, a miniature sea has formed at low tide. A profusion of events unfolds there, with protagonists as varied as they are surprising. A splendid, informative, and fascinating wildlife documentary.

After completing his university studies in sociology, Manuel Lefèvre chose to dedicate himself to making underwater wildlife documentaries. A self-taught filmmaker, he self-produced his first film: a documentary about the locomotion of marine animals. Thanks to this first film, he managed to convince a distributor and signed a series of 12 episodes of 26 minutes dedicated to marine animals. The series was sold in over 30 countries. Building on this initial success, he quickly followed up with the direction of two 52-minute films, including The Wonderful World of Crustaceans. The latter received numerous awards, notably the Silver Palme at the World Festival of Underwater Image, and brought Manuel to the attention of others. Laurent Ballesta then invited him to join the Gombessa expeditions. As a director, underwater and terrestrial cinematographer, drone operator, sound recordist, and editor, Manuel is interested in all aspects of audiovisual creation. Curious and versatile, he is a true 'Swiss Army knife'.

Photography © Manuel Lefèvre

Claire DOUTRELANT “The blue tit”

50 years of evolutionary survey

Jacques Blondel
Anne Charmantier
Philippe Perret

Ce livre est une plongée fascinante dans l’intimité de la mésange bleue… et des chercheur·se·s qui l’étudient. Il révèle les mille et une astuces qui sont apparues au cours de l’évolution de ce petit oiseau en réponse aux multiples contraintes des bioclimats méditerranéens. Pénétrer l’univers de la mésange bleue convoque les méthodes les plus variées, mises au point par les quatre auteur·ice·s et leurs équipes pour aborder des sujets aussi complexes que la structure du chant, les subtiles couleurs du plumage, l’infidélité conjugale ou encore la lutte contre les parasites au moyen de bouquets parfumés. Lancé dans les années 1970, ce programme de suivi à long terme d’une population animale est l’un des plus anciens au monde. La Mésange et la Chenille invite à regarder et écouter ce petit lutin bleu qui partage avec nous  forêts et jardins.

Céline Curiol – “Invasives”

Or the trial of a nature reserve

In the Marais du Vigueirat nature reserve, where Céline Curiol spent a year immersed alone, the invasive water-primrose is everywhere, to the point of haunting her dreams. Beyond encounters with an entire ecosystem of plants, animals, women and men, it is the paradox of nature conservation that the writer explores: to preserve heritage species, humans must make disproportionate efforts, far removed from the supposed spontaneity of the wild.

photography © Patrice Normand

Natural grazing: the return of large wild herbivores in France

Sophie Monsarrat, Aurélien Giraud, Olivier Raynaud 

For several years in Europe, biologists have been pushing for the reintroduction of hardy horses and cattle to restore an essential function to ecosystems: natural grazing. Numerous sites have emerged, particularly in Spain and Portugal, to allow these large herbivores to maintain a mosaic of landscapes by managing open spaces and the rich biodiversity that comes with them. This return of semi-wild equines and bovines inevitably raises questions: are there not already too many wild herbivores in France? Can this compete with traditional farming and encroach on pastoralism? Can it attract wolves? Is it dangerous? Is it really useful? This round table aims to explain the foundations of such an approach and answer all the questions it raises. We will also have the opportunity to showcase a concrete, local application on a 170-hectare site in the Diois region.

Sophie Monsarrat has been with Rewilding Europe for four years, where she oversees operations across several rewilding territories in Portugal, Croatia, Ukraine, Romania, and France. She also manages various natural grazing and animal reintroduction programmes within the Rewilding Europe network. Prior to this, Sophie Monsarrat completed her PhD in Montpellier, then held several postdoctoral researcher positions at Aarhus University in Denmark and in South Africa. During this period, she studied the impact of humans on the distribution and abundance of large wild mammals.

Olivier Raynaud, director of Rewilding France, will provide local context for natural grazing by presenting the first pilot site established near Saillans, covering 170 hectares.

Photography © Aurélien Giraud

Kogis, ensemble pour soigner la terre

de Alexandre Boucher

Présenté par Jean Louis Michelot et Ernst Zürcher

Five wise elders from the indigenous Kogi community of Colombia arrive in Europe. They travel along the Rhône, from its glacial source in Switzerland to its delta in the Camargue. Their ancestral wisdom, combined with current scientific methods, reveals innovative solutions for restoring the river’s natural balance. This meeting between traditional and modern knowledge charts an original path for ecosystem protection and environmental preservation.

Alexandre Bouchet is a committed filmmaker whose films weave a powerful link between the intimate and the living world. Through some thirty documentaries, he explores ecological struggles and the wisdom of indigenous peoples with an immersive and poetic visual style. Awarded for Belo Monte and An Amazonian Tale, he also directed Arc de Feu, a hard-hitting investigation into the timber mafia. For Canal+, he directed Green Cops, an international investigative series on environmental brigades, and for Arte, the collection Peoples Roots, praised for its human and scientific depth. 

Photography © 

Guardians of the Birds

Directed by Muriel Barra

Facilitation of a discussion with the public on nature preservation (through knowledge and observation of birds) following the film screening. Presence of 2 young wildlife photographers, Elie and Maël Fumet and Marco Rébuttini

Muriel Barra Long aware of the urgent need to raise public awareness of the societal and environmental issues of our time, she created the company Lato Sensu Productions (in 2004) with the aim of producing activist and committed documentaries on these themes. Executive producer of Lato Sensu's entire film catalogue, she regularly works for French and international channels. In close collaboration with UNESCO, she accompanies most of her productions with Impact Campaigns, and also regularly takes on directing for more personal projects. Among her latest productions/directions: "Gardiens de la Forêt" (5×52’00 / ARTE / 2023), "Un autre chemin" (4×52’00 / USHUAÏA TV / 2019 / filmed Document-Terre), "Dans le sillage d’Ulysse avec Sylvain Tesson" (5×26’00 / ARTE / 2019), "Freedom, l’envol d’un aigle" (90’00 / USHUAÏA TV / 2015).

Fragile: Handle with care

For a year, the teams from the ONF's naturalist networks for avifauna and mammals, accompanied by scientists, conducted a study in the Integral Biological Reserve of the Vercors state forest, focusing on the Tengmalm's owl. This rare and difficult-to-observe nocturnal raptor is a threatened umbrella species. It is protected in France and Europe. The aim of the study, which this film retraces, is to better understand its vital habitat in order to preserve the types of forest stands that are favourable to it and, ultimately, to ensure the survival of this emblematic mountain forest owl.

Bruno Alles started making videos in 2014. He describes himself as a craftsman and has primarily made short films and a few documentaries, focusing on two favourite themes: nature and living culture. In almost all of his films, he handles all the tasks: directing, cinematography, sound recording, scriptwriting, editing, as well as colour grading and mixing. Based on his ethics and ecological awareness, he makes films almost exclusively in the Vercors region where he lives, and which he has loved for 35 years. Passionate about nature, he roams the massif, camera on his shoulder. Through a poetic and sensitive approach to the wild world, he highlights (and visually captures) the beauty and harmony of the natural environment. He contributes to raising human awareness about the rightful place we should leave for other living beings.

Photography © Bruno Alles

David Grémillet « Les discrètes »

Rêves de tortues marines

Depuis 252 millions d’années, les tortues marines ont traversé deux extinctions de masse ; elles en affrontent aujourd’hui une troisième. Si vulnérables en apparence, elles ont résisté aux dinosaures, aux requins et aux crocodiles marins. Survivront-elles aux humains ? Les navigateurs du passé les ont chargées par millions à bord de leurs vaisseaux, les temps modernes les ont transformées en soupes pour les gourmets. Aujourd’hui encore, des centaines de milliers d’entre elles se noient chaque année, prisonnières des engins de pêche.  Pourtant, les “discrètes” persistent et certaines de leurs populations récupèrent des carnages du passé.  Quel est le secret de jouvence des tortues marines, alors que l’humanité semble s’autodétruire ?  Au fil d’une enquête planétaire, de l’équateur jusque dans les régions polaires, David Grémillet nous entraîne sur la trace des belles nageuses et des hommes et des femmes qui les défendent pied à pied.  Nous découvrirons ainsi leur long passé sur terre, leurs incroyables performances physiques, leurs migrations transocéaniques, leurs histoires de vie centenaires – autant de rêves éveillés pour un éloge de la lenteur.

photographie © Bénédicte Martin