Hue : A Matter of Colour

Dans Vie Pigmentée, le réputé réalisateur et directeur photo Vic Sarin mène une enquête personnelle sur un sujet qui lui tient à cœur : l'histoire trop souvent tragique du colorisme - une discrimination intra-ethnique fondée sur les nuances de peau. Asie, Afrique, Caraïbes et Amérique du Sud - Sarin trouve partout des témoins directs d'une problématique touchant toutes les cultures, à commencer par une entrepreneure philippine qui fait des affaires d'or dans l'industrie milliardaire du blanchiment de la peau. Vie Pigmentée entraîne le spectateur dans un étonnant tour du monde où l'on remonte aux sources mêmes d'un dysfonctionnement social d'autant plus sournois qu'il est tout en nuances.

South Africa, one of the largest members of the Commonwealth, a country with full self-government, has an acute race problem that causes dissension not only within its borders but within the Commonwealth and beyond. We see a country of fourteen million people where only one out of five is white. Edgar McInnis gives a dispassionate appraisal of the motivations behind the policy of apartheid and of whether the practice of segregation provides a satisfactory solution.

Hopscotch is universal. Girls around the world trace squares on the ground, then hop through them, trying hard to reach the end. Girls share other interests too; they all like to talk about school, what they want to be when they grow up, who they will marry, how many children they will have, their hopes for a better life for themselves and their family. But all too often, through poverty, perversion, spite, ignorance or superstition, adults shatter these dreams by denying girls the right to an education, entering them into forced labour, subjecting them to mutilation, sexual abuse and other injustices. Soni, Kamlesh, Mou, Yui, Dalal, Esmeralda, Fatou, Adiaratou, Safi and Maude range in age from 8 to 14. Some are frail, some strong; all are beautiful. Whether they live in India, Thailand, Yemen, Peru, Burkina Faso or Haiti, they all speak of having much of their childhood stolen from them. Because they are girls. With subtitles.