Laurent Lederer

Un film et son époque

Prêt-à-Porter

During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.

The Taliban's Natural Resources

Since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, Afghanistan has drawn growing international attention for its enormous reserves of rare earths and strategic minerals essential to the global energy transition. The country is believed to hold more than €1 trillion in resources, including copper, lithium, cobalt, iron, uranium, chromite, mercury, and rare earth elements, as well as valuable gemstones and gold. Often described as the “Saudi Arabia of minerals,” Afghanistan has become the focus of a geopolitical race for supplies. While Europe and the United States remain hesitant to engage with a regime accused of serious human rights abuses, countries such as China, Russia, Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan, and India are already positioning themselves in Kabul to secure access to these critical resources.

Mafias and Banks

How, from the 1920s to the present day, financial power has gradually strengthened a hidden alliance with criminal organizations around the world.

Lutine

When a Parisian filmmaker begins work on a new movie about polyamory, she gets lost between fiction and reality, risking both her art and her relationships. As a combination of fiction and documentary, the film could be classified as a ‘UMO’: Unidentified Movie Object! On the one hand: a comedy about a female director who plays with fire by testing out polyamory on her own relationship. On the other hand: a serious, poised, and thought-through documentary with speakers who have reflected on the topic or who live it everyday. Between the two, a grey area in which fiction gets entangled with reality. Will her sweetheart rise up to the challenge of polyamory? Will she finish her film?

Once Upon a Time... Little Odessa

Documentary about the making of James Gray's 1994 film Little Odessa.

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, une passion dévorante

Chernobyl, Fukushima: Living with the Legacy

30 years after the Chernobyl catastrophe and 5 years after Fukushima it is time to see what has been happening in the “exclusion zones” where the radioactivity rate is far above normal.

Defending Europe

For decades, European security has depended mainly on NATO, under-written by America. But under the Trump White House, the spectre of US disengagement threatens to leave the EU without its protector. We investigate the main threats facing Europe and examine how Europe can best defend itself.

Des vaccins et des hommes

The Blob: A Genius without a Brain

This documentary outlines the unique properties and latest studies of "Physarum Polycephalum", also known as Blob.

The Phoney War

September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacuations and skirmishes.

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".

Paroles Paroles