Series

A word that unites idea, place and movement, a series that gives this word additional meaning: In “Utopias?” documentary filmmaker Henri Poulain offers storytelling as the driving force of human change and hope.

If you want to .change the rules, rewrite them. That's probably about how you have to conceive of what activists around the world are willing to do to make the impossible or unthinkable possible and conceivable. Guided by the power of storytelling the women and men profiled here have chosen to explore the possibilities of a different life. Whether in the context of the landless movement in Brazil, the peace movement in Israel, whether under a hail of bombs in Syria and Turkey or on the streets of Belgium and France: the reshaping of society, the fulfillment of any utopia, requires breaking the rules, the act against the norm, the final storytwist. With "Utopias?", Henri Poulain tries to show us that the stories of tomorrow are already being written long ago.