7Ma fille n’est pas à vendre by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Dans le documentaire «Ma fille n’est pas à vendre», Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette s’intéresse à l’histoire de quatre mères dont les adolescentes sont tombées sous l’emprise d’un proxénète. Ces témoignages l’ont aidée à découvrir l’univers de l’exploitation sexuelle juvénile au Québec. Voyez ou revoyez ce documentaire très remarqué ce soir (mercredi) 20h!
Posted by Télé-Québec on Wednesday, March 7, 2018
This French Canadian documentary was made after many young girls ran away from a youth centre in Laval to prostitute themselves with the help of pimps they met online. The woman who created the documentary wanted to understand why these young girls, who weren’t necessarily from “bad families” were running away to prostitute themselves. Young girls get taken advantage of and are recruited through social media. She follows four mothers whose daughters were taken advantage of by street gangs, drugs, etc.
8Sur le chemin de l’école by Pascal Plisson
When we think of going to elementary school, we think of walking to school with our mom and dad, taking the bus with friends or carpooling with the neighbourhood kids. For these four children from the four corners of the world, they have to go through much more in order to get to class. Pascal Plisson followed Zahira from Morocco, Jackson from Kenya, Carlos from Argentina and Samuel from India have more than stop signs and bike paths to follow. In order for these kids to get a good education and thus, get well-paying jobs and a proper learning experience, Jackson has to cross the savanna filled with dangerous animals for 15 km, Zahira has to go through the Atlas mountains, Samuel, who’s in a wheelchair, has to cross 4 km of sandy paths, rivers, and palm groves with the help of his two brothers and Carlos has to go through the steep Patagonian landscape 18 km away from his house to go reach his school. This documentary will truly inspire you and understand that these kids do it for a better future.
9Les nouveaux chiens de garde by Gilles Balbastre
This French documentary is a free adaptation of the essay by Serge Halimi, a great French writer and journalist. The documentary explores the close collusion between French journalists and French politicians. Even though journalists express how independent they are from people of power like politicians. Except, many newspapers and other news outlets are owned by huge groups that finance politicians during campaigns and elections. This documentary shows that journalistic values like independence and objectivity are now lost which means news and information given to the large public is falsified. Even though this documentary came out in 2012, it still feels very current during this fake news era.
