British street artist Banksy was invited to create the opening sequence of an episode of The Simpsons and took the opportunity to denounce the fact that part of the animation process is outsourced to South Korea.

Four families in Israel/Palestine built their dream houses. This process confronts them with the wounds of their past and takes us into their dreams for a better future: Kalman was born to Holocaust survivors in a refugee camp in Cyprus after World War II, his first house in Israel was a house left by the Arab community in Haifa.Zaki is the son of Palestinian refugees who were expelled from their village in the Israeli War of Independence, the Palestinian Naqba of 1948. He and his family live only few miles away from the ruins of their former home. Michal, daughter of Israeli settlers in Sinai, saw the bulldozers destroy her beloved home during the evacuation from Sinai in 1982 and Rina never had a private home in the Kibbutz where she grew up. Through these personal stories Tal creates a sensitive kaleidoscope of Israeli society at the beginning of the new Millennium.

Traditionally considered a postmodern city, Dubai is actually a confrontation between two ways of life. The most densely populated part of the city lives in what could be considered a “modern” architecture and society. The other and more widely known part is based along the lines of the postmodern philosophy that Jeremy Rifkin has described so well.

Baye Fall is a Muslim practice derived from mouridism, a Sufi based faith deeply rooted within Senegalese culture. Through the story of one family, the film explores the beliefs and lifestyle of Baye Fall followers.

In the 21st century, many ancestral beliefs are struggling to survive in a hostile, fast-changing world. In southeast Ivory Coast, some Akan communities still contact the spirits through Komians or animistic priests who go into a trance and are possessed by the spirits of the Forest and the Waters. Jean Marie Addiaffi (1941-1999), a writer and intellectual from Ivory Coast, fought to conserve the Akans' oral literature, myths and legends, and the traditional knowledge and uses of plants. In Return to the Land of Souls, Yéo Douley, a disciple of Jean Marie Addiaffi, sets out on a journey to visit his master's grave and carry out a ritual libation. On his travels, he attends the initiation rites of three people chosen by the spirits and witnesses one of them proclaimed as the new Komian, or high animistic priest.

At first glance, SecondLife appears to be a videogame, but it is more than that: it is a virtual world. Over a million people are registered inhabitants of this place, where they can meet, chat, walk together... In The Cave and The Double, José Saramago had written about the importance of reality and human beings' eagerness to find places to which they can escape. Here, the Portuguese intellectual reflects on SecondLife on radiocable.com

Video made from a conversation recorded in the 70 in Mumbai (India) .. between a traveler and Nisarghadata Indian philosopher, author of "I am That", one of the most recent and important examples of Advaita Vedanta. Satsanga is a Sanskrit word, which means: (Sat = truth, reality, Sanga = company) describes in Indian philosophy: 1. in the company of truth. 2. company in reality 3. accompanied by an assembly of persons who listen, speak and assimilate reality. This practice also takes the form of hearing or reading scriptures, reflections, discussions and assimilating their meaning, meditating on the source of these words.