The Millenium Collection on the RTBF

The Millennium Collection is broadcast monthly on La Trois, with a new theme and new experts for each issue. The Millennium Collection presents a documentary that was presented at the Millennium Festival 2013 and is followed by a short reportage on the topic, with interviews of the audience and specialists.

The next emission of the Millenium Collection will be broadcast on Thursday, February 20th at 21:05 on La Trois. The emission will be devoted to the documentary San Agustin.

San Agustin:

In the middle of the world’s biggest fruit and vegetable garden, the “Mar del plástico”, lies the Andalusian village of San Agustín. A mysterious virus threatens the harvest, bacteria attacks the plants and the authorities go after the illegal greenhouse workers. In a few words: two families, a village tavern and plenty of vegetables. One extraordinary harvest season in nine chapters.

Losers and Winners :

Two cultures collide in this unusual account of globalization, which documents the dismantling of a coke factory in Germany to be transferred and reassembled exactly as it was in China. The Kaiserstuhl coke factory in the Ruhr Valley, a state-of-the-art facility built forf over 650 million euros in 1992, was closed only eight years later when the cost of importing coke became cheaper than manufacturing it. Filmed over an eighteen-month period, this chronicle follows the surprising process, featuring interviews with the Germans workers, the Chinese managers and their low-paid workers.

The Road to Silverstone : 

A group of young Palestine engineers succeeded in building a Formula 1 race car, the first ever built in Gaza, even though they couldn't get the key components from European suppliers. After hurdling many obstacles, they were finally able to present it at the international Formula Student competition at Britain’s famous Silverstone race track. Seeing cars from the industrialized world, they feel disadvantaged, but try to overcome their fears. Capturing the dreams of these young people, the film reveals a side of Gaza's life rarely seen before.

Le goût du sel :

Near Saint-Louis, Senegal, a small village lives off salt production according to a particular community organization: the men delimit the salt fields and the women do the harvesting. But this work division is to the men's benefit. At Ngay Ngay, women are the backbone of this age-old activity. In this uneven relationship, they are exploited by their own husbands. Little by little, certain awareness is emerging, however, and another distribution of tasks is considered.

Bay of All Saints

In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families have lived in palafitas, slums on stilts. A government project is supposed to relocate them to new homes, but it remains on hold. Filmed over 6 years, Bay of All Saints is a lyrical portrait of three single-mothers torn between hope and disillusion. Geni, a pizza parlor manager quickly becomes a community organizer; Jesus, a laundry-washer, starts to look beyond her dreams of a Prince Charming who will never come; Dona Maria, a garbage woman, raises her 16 children and grandchildren on her own. The story is narrated by a generous refrigerator repairman as each family is promised a new home in governmental housing, without knowing when, or if this promise will ever be kept.

Recipes for Disaster :

Director John Webster convinces his wife and two small children that the whole family should go on an oil-free diet. In this comedy of errors they find themselves questioning their values and putting to test their will power and ultimately, their happiness.