Non Fiction / Memoirs
Rula Jebreal
Miral
Written by the much-admired Italo-Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, Miral is a novel that focuses on remarkable women whose lives unfold in the turbulent political climate along the borders of ...
Jean-Marie Périer
Get Lost
You have to see it to believe it: in 2010, men and women are still being banished from their families for loving someone of their own gender. “It’s within families that homophobia ...
Rubina Ali
Slumgirl Dreaming
From Mumbai’s slum to Hollywood’s glitter: Rubina, the little star from Slumdog Millionaire who moved the whole world, tells her extraordinary story. I’m Rubina and I’m nine years old. My life ...
Krystel Cahanin-Caillaud
I Had an Out-of-Body Experience
Krystel was involved in a serious car accident the day before her final exams. She is declared clinically dead upon arriving in the hospital, and she spends four weeks in a coma. During those ...
Édouard Cortès
A Path of Promises
Mathilde and Édouard Cortès walked the 6000km between Paris and Jerusalem. An incredible human adventure, both physically and spiritually. 17th June 2007, on the steps of Notre-Dame de Paris, ...
Sampat Pal
I, Sampat Pal, Warrior in a Pink Sary
For the past two years, deep in the Uttar Pradesh province, one of the poorest parts of India, a woman has taken the reigns of an uprising. A women’s revolution, a revolt of the mistreated, of ...
Isabelle Aubry
The First time, I Was Six …
Every year in France, thousands of children are sexually abused. Three times out of four, it is within their own families. Almost every time, both the child and the people around keep quiet. ...
Geneviève Casasus
I Started With a Drink
The exceptional story of a woman who became an alcoholic at a very young age, while she worked as an air hostess for a big national company. Like most alcoholic women, she denies having this ...
Christophe Mangelle
Cancer!
Aged 28, he fights for his life and tells us how beautiful it is. At the age of 20, Christophe was told he had cancer. Despite his existence falling apart at the seams, he conquers his illness. ...
Laure Joanin-Llobet
The 7 of Spandau
The chaplains of Albert Speer, Rudolf Hess, and other nazi criminals judged in Nuremberg, locked up in the Spandau prison, tell their stories. Between 1947 and 1987, seven nazi ex-dignitaries, ...
Ani Chäying Drolma
My Voice for Freedom
The exceptional testimony of Ani Choying, A Buddhist nun who has been fighting for the freedom of Young Nepalese girls for more than fifteen years. Ani Choying is a fighter. She has been fighting ...
Gérard Klein
I Met Incredible People
One day, I decided to turn my life around. To stop doing television, not to do L’instit anymore, even though it was such a big part of my life, and to become simply Gerard again. Spend time with ...