Festival docs in high spirits - Cultivating the rain

Salle de la Mairie, Le bourg

France, Marc Khanne, François Rouillay, Sabine Becker, 2025, 75’ Directors via videoconference Too much water, not enough water, droughts, floods! Alerted, the three film authors went to meet about fifteen actors and farmers involved in the water issue, including Francis Hallé, the eminent botanist, ardent defender of the forest. From Larzac to Béarn, from Roussillon to Alsace, and even on a Cape Verde island where it hasn’t rained for thirteen years, the documentary shows the effectiveness of agroforestry, farming on living soil, regenerative hydrology, and more…