Alliance Fran�aise�s documentary offers hope

The Alliance Française of Gaborone in partnership with the Agence Française de Development, The French Embassy to Botswana and Botswana Society for Human Development will be screening a documentary that offers hope on December 8, 2016.

In an interview with the event coordinator Anne Viot, the documentary titled Tomorrow, is a about environment by an activist Cyril Dion and French actress Mélanie Laurent.

“This documentary will be showing solutions and telling a feel-good story. This may be the best way to solve the ecological, economical and social crises that our countries are going through. After a special briefing for the journal nature announced the possible extinction of a part of mankind before the end of the 21st century, Dion and Laurent together with a team of four people, carried out an investigation in 10 different countries to figure out what may lead to this disaster and above all how to avoid it,” she said.

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