Clarice Lispector: A Descoberta do Mundo

Scenes of the childhood of a girl, living in a small Brazilian town.

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door on it. But the sight of the dying insect provokes a mystical crisis.

In one of his letters, the writer Fernando Sabino tries to describe the complexity of his friend Clarice Lispector. During the process, Fernando rambles in his imagination, blurring the line between reality and fantasy in his creative process.

Teresa is a black woman who suffers a racist insult from her boss, affected by the comment, she is unable to go to work. While Teresa remembers her past, a cockroach emerges from the bottom of her closet. From that moment on, Teresa will rethink her decisions and the things she left behind.

In this one-hour special, Gordon investigates the history, culture and controversy surrounding the shark fishing industry. Each year, nearly 100 million sharks worldwide are killed for use of their fins in the traditional Chinese delicacy, driving a third of the world's shark species towards extinction. Gordon also goes diving in an attempt to gain a full understanding of the majestic animal.

In the small local school of Cheratte, a former mining town, 11-year old students with and immigrant background are coming to the end of their primary school education with Brigitte. She is a dynamic teacher whose particular pedagogical approach aims to give these pupils a firm foundation to build on in this constantly changing world.

This Traveltalk series short visits a few locations where the centuries-old traditions of ancient India are kept alive in contemporary times.

This Traveltalk series short gives a glimpse into South African history, albeit from a white person's viewpoint. South Africa is a union of four separate states: the Transvaal, the Orange Free State, Natal, and the Cape Provence.

The documentary depicts the birth of eugenics - a pseudo-science created in the 19th century that propounded the theory of perfecting the human race. According to the views of eugenicists, only healthy and creative individuals should reproduce. The film shows how these controversial ideas influenced the intellectual and political elite of the West in the 20th century, including the dictator of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler. Eugenics is a pseudoscience created in the 19th century and treating the improvement of the human race. According to eugenicists, only healthy and creative individuals could procreate, and the procreation of the sick or disabled and racially unworthy (prostitutes, the poor, beggars) should be forbidden. The author of the film posits that modern genetics, the killing of unborn children and euthanasia have their roots in this infamous pseudoscience.

This travelogue emphasizes Copenhagen's harmonious residents and tone. We see well-known landmarks and get a quick history of some of them.

A Traveltalk style documentary look at Rome.

About the way of life in the East, in China, during the months before spring. An early spring.

For years, the Stardust has been a pub symbolizing romanity. From behind its counter, a young parisian girl has discovered Italy while living the final blows of a century coming to an end. With her Hi8 camrecorder she filmed her life as an expat and captured a glimpse of the Trastevere nightlife.

This investigation by Marie-Monique Robin makes the link between the proliferation of new viruses and the destruction of biodiversity and probes the scientists gathered around the issue of global health. To counter the multiplication of health crises, these specialists advocate the preservation of biodiversity as an antidote.