D'un côté, Louis Winthorpe III, un jeune directeur, est chargé des investissements chez Duke & Duke, une puissante banque de Philadelphie. De l'autre, Billy Ray Valentine est un noir combinard mais fauché. Tous deux vont faire l'objet d'un pari insensé, passé entre les patrons de Louis.
For the first time, a documentary dismantles the mechanisms of this great world trade to economic issues, major political and food, and reveals the daily life of those who are the main players: traders themselves, the men and women who buy , transport, sell merchandise and speculate on changes in their prices. African cotton plantations of the Hong Kong import companies, Brazilian soybean fields in the hall of the Chicago Board of Trade markets, through commercial ports of Santos and Le Havre.
For consumers, bananas are a delicious and nutritious start to the day, a healthy snack and a fixture in our fruit bowls. For millions of residents in the banana lands, the production of bananas means social upheaval, violence and pesticide poisoning. Banana Land explores the origins of these disparate realities, and opens the conversation on how workers, producers and consumers can address this disconnect.
The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art with complex geometric patterns called kené. These patterns also have corresponding songs, called icaros, which are integral to the Shipibo way of life. This documentary explores these unique art forms, and one Shipibo family's efforts to safeguard the tradition.
Menacés par les géants du numérique et de nouveaux usages, les acteurs historiques de la grande distribution luttent sans merci pour assurer la pérennité de leur modèle. Une enquête fouillée, menée par le journaliste d’investigation Rémi Delescluse.