Lion

Une incroyable histoire vraie : à 5 ans, Saroo se retrouve seul dans un train traversant l’Inde qui l’emmène malgré lui à des milliers de kilomètres de sa famille. Perdu, le petit garçon doit apprendre à survivre seul dans l’immense ville de Calcutta. Après des mois d’errance, il est recueilli dans un orphelinat et adopté par un couple d’Australiens.

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Saroo, un bambino di cinque anni, è da solo e, spaventato e confuso, si ritrova dopo un lungo viaggio in treno nella caotica Calcutta, lontano un migliaio di miglia da casa. Cercando di sopravvivere alla vita di strada, finisce per essere adottato da una coppia di australiani che lo cresce con amore a Hobart. Non volendo ferire i sentimenti dei genitori adottivi, Saroo seppellisce il suo passato e il desiderio di ritrovare la madre e il fratello biologici. Un incontro casuale però riporterà a galla il suo sogno, facendolo imbarcare in una delle più grandi avventure della sua vita.

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

"Only the Songhay hunters, a hereditary caste, are entitled to kill lions. The herdsmen are permitted only to throw stones at lions to chase them away. The Peul consider that the lion is necessary for the herd, and they are capable of identifying individual lions by the tracks they leave. But when a lion kills too many cattle, it has to be eliminated, because such a lion is a killer." (J. Rouch). From 1957 to 1964, Rouch observed the Gao hunters from the Yatakala region and the film recounts episodes of the hunt in which technology and magic are intimately entwined: making bows and arrows, preparing the poison, tracking the animals, the death ritual.

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

South African journalist Rian Malan searches for the original writers of the legendary song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."

Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler: the “old lion” against the "German eagle". The “bear of Downing Street” versus “der Wolf.” Two radically contradictory personalities whose enmity represented the 20th century as the “age of extremes.” On one side is Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the century. His humor, style, self-deprecation and audacity in the face of adversity is still regarded as a prime example of leadership and political courage. He is one of the most popular political leaders of all time. On the other side is Adolf Hitler, certainly the most hated leader in contemporary history.

A pride of lionesses reigns supreme on the banks of a river in Tanzania. They are merciless hunters, unrivalled in their fearlessness and strength. These killers are feared by all the local wildlife. But for the past few years, this region has been hit by drought, and a dam being constructed upstream has dried up the river's flow. Whereas prey was once abundant, it has now fled the area, and the lionesses are struggling for survival. They resort to attacking the giraffes for food. The director (Lions Queens, Fighting for Survival and Surviving the Drought) has spent the past five years making wildlife documentaries in the remote reserves of Tanzania.

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.