History and society Investigations and reports
Femmes savantes
2024
Sous-titres : Français Espagnol Anglais Allemand Arabe
A series of interviews with researchers in Québec, led by Léa Clermont-Dion, a filmmaker and author, focusing on current challenges facing society.
History and society | Investigations and reports
Episode 1
28 min
Obstetrical violence
Léa Clermont-Dion talks with Sylvie Lévesque, a professor in sexology at the University of Québec in Montreal, about obstetrical violence and the ethical issues it raises.
Episode 2
26 min
Handling of sexual abuse complaints
Léa Clermont-Dion looks at the progress in law on sexual abuse with Julie Desrosiers, a law professor at the University of Laval and co-president of the Rebuilding Trust report.
Episode 3
23 min
Identity and immigration
Talk with Cécile Rousseau, a child psychiatrist and professor at McGill University, who works on integration of newcomers in Québec society.
Episode 4
23 min
Access to abortion
Léa Clermont-Dion tackles the issue of access to abortion with Nesrine Bessaïh, an anthropologist and associate professor at the Institute of Feminist Research and Studies and the University of Québec in Montreal.
Episode 5
26 min
Climate change and Indigenous peoples
Léa Clermont-Dion looks at the impact of climate change on Inuit peoples with Lisa Qiluqqi Koperqualuk, an anthropologist and president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council.
A series of interviews with researchers in Québec, led by Léa Clermont-Dion, a filmmaker and author, focusing on current challenges facing society.
With nearly 5,000 kilometres of coastline, Madagascar is the fifth largest island in the world; protecting its marine resources is a major mission. Women join in the fight. At the crossroads of the Mozambique and Indian Ocean canals, meet with the new guardians of the ocean.
Climate change is threatening the Pacific Islands: by the end of the century, some atolls may disappear. The inhabitants of Uvea and Vanuatu are trying to resist by launching a race against time. Scientists, guides, fisherman, lawyers, activists, elected representatives... We meet the guardians of a paradise not yet lost.
When we meet Bijoux in Yaoundé, she has just survived another lynching. Just like Shakiro, LGBTQIA+ activist. This is the story of two people who feel like "women in a man's body" and who highlight their humanity to us at a time when homophobic and transphobic violence continues on every continent.
Surrounded by experts, scientists, explorers, or simple fishermen, the astrophysicist and ecologist Hubert Reeves, who passed away in 2023, proposes to identify what threatens the ocean today and exposes the latest discoveries on the intelligence of animals and ocean ecosystems.
Local communities are engaged in conflicts that receive very little media coverage around Kisangani, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this remote province of Tshopo, the lack of a state, security and consideration for human beings has enabled a simple land dispute to degenerate into a mass massacre.
When you're a French-speaker in Canada today, can you still identify with being French-Canadian? Comedian and broadcaster Pascal Justin Boyer, a Quebecker by birth and Franco-Ontarian by adoption, asks himself this question and travels across the country to meet people who can shed light on it.
They were intended to mark the success of a transition process driven by international community engagement. This was not the case. This article highlights the limits of interventionist policies and a country's ability to reinvent its own democratic system.
