Cyril Dion is a French director, author and environmental activist born in 1978. After studying drama and a short career as an actor, he founded in 2007 the Colibris movement with Pierre Rabhi, an environmentalist association that fights for the protection of the environment. In 2010, he advises and co-produces with the Colibris the documentary Local Solutions for a Global Disorder by Coline Serreau. He co-directed with actress Mélanie Laurent the film Demain in 2015, which won several awards and met with widespread public success. He published a first novel, Imago, in 2017, and in 2018, Petit manuel de résistance contemporaine, which explores how narratives shape our societies and strategies for coping with climate change and the collapse of biodiversity. In 2019, he begins shooting his new film, Animal, which will was released in theaters in late 2021.
Bella and Vipulan are 16 years old, a generation convinced that their future is being threatened. Climate change, the sixth mass extinction of species... within fifty years, their world could become uninhabitable. They may warn, but nothing really changes. So they decide to go to the source of the problem: our relationship with the living world.
Today, we sometimes feel powerless in front of the various crises of our times. We know that answers lie in a wide mobilization of the human race. Over the course of a century, our dream of progress commonly called the “American Dream”, fundamentally changed the way we live and continues to inspire many developing countries. We are now aware of the setbacks and limits of such development polici...
Bella and Vipulan are 16 years old, a generation convinced that their future is being threatened. Climate change, the sixth mass extinction of species... within fifty years, their world could become uninhabitable. They may warn, but nothing really changes. So they decide to go to the source of the problem: our relationship with the living world.
Today, we sometimes feel powerless in front of the various crises of our times. We know that answers lie in a wide mobilization of the human race. Over the course of a century, our dream of progress commonly called the “American Dream”, fundamentally changed the way we live and continues to inspire many developing countries. We are now aware of the setbacks and limits of such development polici...