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2011 1 h 31 min
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Jim Brown et Gary Burns (La cité radieuse) signent ce long métrage documentaire qui mélange narration fictive et rencontres issues de la vraie vie. Inspiré du documentaire de Nicole Védrès La vie commence demain (1949), L'avenir, c'est maintenant cherche les aspects positifs d’un monde écrasé par le terrorisme mondial, les catastrophes environnementales et le consumérisme outrancier et met le public au défi de réviser sa propre vision de l’avenir. Avec Liane Balaban et Paul Ahmarani.

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Jim Brown et Gary Burns (La cité radieuse) signent ce long métrage documentaire qui mélange narration fictive et rencontres issues de la vraie vie. Inspiré du documentaire de Nicole Védrès La vie commence demain (1949), L'avenir, c'est maintenant cherche les aspects positifs d’un monde écrasé par le terrorisme mondial, les catastrophes environnementales et le consumérisme outrancier et met le public au défi de réviser sa propre vision de l’avenir. Avec Liane Balaban et Paul Ahmarani.

Film and Video Arts All subjects
  • cast
    Paul Ahmarani
    Liane Balaban
    Shigeru Ban
    Christian Bök
    Alain de Botton
    Marlene Dumas
    Francis Dupuis Déri
    Rivka Galchen
    Richard Dawkins
    Craig Venter
    Jean Paul Sartre
  • music - composition
    John Abram
  • editing
    Paul Mortimer
  • director of photography
    Patrick McLaughlin
  • executive producer
    David Christensen
  • producer
    Shirley Vercruysse
    George Baptist
    Bonnie Thompson
  • script
    Gary Burns
    Jim Brown
  • direction
    Gary Burns
    Jim Brown

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Ages 14 to 17
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Ethics and Religious Culture - Ethical Values History and Citizenship Education - Culture and Currents of Thought (1500-present)
Assign students to record interviews with members of their community based on the themes explored in the film. They should then edit the footage to create short films or an online archive of the interviews. Consider inviting a guest speaker to visit the class (or attend via video conference) to introduce the students to the subject of philosophy. Working individually or in groups, the students should generate lists of questions for both the interviews and the guest speaker.
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