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20 Episodes 2024 - 2024
Episode 1
28 mins
Soudeh Rad is a militant queer ecofeminist who condemns the traditional education that she received in Iran. After enduring a forced marriage and domestic violence, she fled to France. She took this opportunity to launch a movement called 'Osez le féminis'.
Episode 2
28 mins
After growing up in different countries around the world, Cathal and Karen Quigg chose to settle in La Celle-Dunoise in the Creuse, where the brother and sister opened the restaurant 'L'auberge des pêcheurs' and are giving a new lease of life to this small French village.
Episode 3
27 mins
Lourdes Pluvinage is the pioneer of Peruvian chefs. She came to France in 1988, drawn by a love story. She left Peru but brought the culinary flavours of her childhood with her and opened the first Peruvian restaurant in Paris: El Picaflor.
Episode 4
28 mins
From Damascus to the Parisian suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, via Palestine, Beirut and Brittany, Maryam Samaan has been enriched by many cultures. After spending some years in Lebanon working with refugee children, the artist is now writing a chapter of her life in Paris.
Episode 5
27 mins
After growing up in a favela and discovering the flute by chance, Eduardo Rosa is now flutist at the National Music Conservatory of Paris. After ten years in the capital, the Brazilian divides his time between concerts and his pupils, to whom he passes on his love for music.
Episode 6
25 mins
Maya Persaud is a militant for eco-responsible fashion who spent her childhood in Hawaii, studied in Washington, and settled in Europe. Today, she puts her life at the service of others via the sewing workshop 'Espero', an NGO devoted to the professional insertion of refugees.
Episode 7
27 mins
Originally from Côte d'Ivoire, Zaef was a cab driver in Gabon before embarking on a career as a comedian. Zaef arrived in France in 2016, where he performs at stand-up venues to talk about his "undocumented" story and spreads messages of tolerance.
Episode 8
28 mins
One of the most influential personalities on the web, Ibrahim left school at 13 and grew up in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek. Today, the Moroccan has founded 'MolenGeek', a company whose purpose is to make the tech sector accessible to all.
Episode 9
28 mins
After arriving in Brussels at the age of two with her family, Marie-Dolorès Mabuila is now part of the Belgian federal police, where she confronts day-to-day racism. This hasn't stopped her from working her way up the ladder and even winning the prestigious European International Women's Leadership Award.
Episode 10
28 mins
"Family, family and family again": this is the motto of this Togolese man from Clichy, who devotes his life to the most disadvantaged. Now a father and a committed citizen, Déthanou is working for the development of the country of his roots, Togo.
Episode 11
27 mins
Born into a Syrian-Kurd family, Ramman has been subjected to discrimination all of his life. He had to flee Aleppo during the bombings. In France, Ramman is finishing his architecture degree and working on a sensitive project to reconstruct the plans of the prison of Palmyre, an emblematic site of Syrian repression.
Episode 12
27 mins
Dive into the extraordinary lives of two Englishmen who left their island to find enlightenment in the heart of the Himalayas. After living as hermits in India and the Pyrenees, Martin and Gail Aylward settled in the Dordogne, where they created a meditation center.
Episode 13
28 mins
An ordinary person who is carving out an extraordinary career is how Marie-Laure Dioh likes to describe herself. She is an associate professor at the University of Québec and works towards a better integration of qualified immigrants in Canada.
Episode 14
28 mins
He did not speak a word of French when he arrived in Québec to work as a welder. Today, Cesar Pilli has a job in human resources and a YouTube channel dedicated to Quebecois culture, for which he regularly creates videos around Québec City.
Episode 15
27 mins
Marie-Françoise has led a life of feminist commitment from a very early age. After working to rebuild her country Haiti, she was forced to leave Port-Au-Prince with her children. In Quebec she continued her fight, while focusing on helping women out of social isolation.
Episode 16
28 mins
Florentina was 14 years old when dictator Ceausescu was assassinated. She then discovered new words such as freedom and democracy. Twenty years later she left for "the other side of the iron curtain", France, where she found a land of possibilities.
Episode 17
27 mins
Bonny is a survivor of the dictatorship of Pol Pot. After he left Cambodia he found refuge in Switzerland in 1979. Thanks to music and a harmonica, in this "paradise", as he calls Switzerland, Bonny has managed to free himself of his traumas while advocating positivism.
Episode 18
28 mins
His name is increasingly well known, some even see him as a future Minister of the Environment. Born in Strasbourg of an Algerian father and a Moroccan mother, Féris Barkat, age 22, works at the 'Banlieues Climat' mission to encourage "youngsters in disadvantaged neighborhoods to play an active role in the ecology."
Episode 19
28 mins
As an artist living in Kabul, the young Shakiba feared for her life on a regular basis. After being with the 'Théâtre du soleil' company for several years, the Afghan actress wants to help build bridges between the culture of her roots and France.
Episode 20
27 mins
On the social networks, Souleymane has almost one million subscribers. His niche is sketches of a Senegalese family, playing on the clichés inspired by his own mother. In parallel, he is pursuing his career as an actor, while trying to escape the role of the commuter.