Portrait of Sébastien CASTELLA, 23 years old, the first French bullfighter to be crowned the best bullfighter of the Spanish season with the "Cossio" award. Comment on factual images and archives of the young laureate.
Debate on stage, led by Philippe GASSOT, between the writer and cartoonist François CAVANNA, anti-corrida, and the journalist Jacques DURAND, pro-corrida. Shock sentence of François CAVANNA: "Nothing makes me happier than when I know that a matador was opened the belly with blows of horn".
Tauromachie: In Béziers (Hérault), an anti-corrida association asks the mayor to account for the use of public funds to organize this kind of demonstration that, According to her, it is nothing but a spectacle of cruelty to animals. Comment on factual images and interviews Robert CLAVIJO (president of colbac, anti-corrida association) and Bernard CABRILLAC (deputy mayor of Béziers, in charge of Culture).
Tauromachie: After being registered there to the great dismay of its opponents in January 2011 by the Ministry of Culture, the corrida was definitively removed from the French intangible cultural heritage by a decision of the Council of State. Commentary on factual and archival images and interview François ZUMBIEHL (professor of classical literature and doctor of anthropology).
Report in Nîmes (Gard) on the electoral dilemne of Gilbert COLLARD who campaigns for the FN: suppress or maintain the bullfight, consider it as an art or contrary to the fight against animal suffering. Commentary on factual and archival images, infographics, and interviews with Gilbert COLLARD (FN), Marie SARA (ex-torera, candidate of the Republic in march) and telephone reaction of Béatrice LECCIA (candidate EELV)
The Féria de Dax (Landes) ended yesterday. Among the distinguished guests, a Spanish horse, bearing the name of a Spanish bullfighter "Garancio". Legend has it torée seul. Comment on factual images and interview Pablo HERMOSO DE MENDOZA (torero).
In Carcassonne (Aude), despite the pressure of animal defense associations that are at the origin of a demonstration against the bullfight, the latter with killing of the bull did take place. Commentary on factual images and interviews with an anti-rrida activist, Josiane QUERELLE, who explains the reasons for her anger and the mayor of the city, Raymond CHESA, who is in favour of the bullfight.
Report devoted to the first bullfight given in the arenas of Dax (Landes) since the end of the Second World War. Commentary accompanied by a paso-doble on factual images.
Constitutional Council verdict: The bullfight is not forbidden and can therefore continue but only in cities where it is a continuous tradition. Opponents are angry but industry professionals and traders are relieved. Comment on factual images and illustration images alternating with interviews with Claire STAROZINSKI (anti-corrida alliance), Nicolas HULOT (TV host), Jean-Baptiste JALABERT (torero), Luc JALABERT (breeder of fighting bulls and father of Jean-Baptiste) and Pierre LACROIX (trader of Nîmes).
Report in Spain after the regional parliament voted to ban the bullfight in Catalonia from 1 January 2012 following a popular petition of 180,000 signatures. Commentary on factual images, micro-sidewalk of opponents and supporters of the bullfight and telephone reaction of Brigitte BARDOT on illustration images of the last Catalan bullfight.
It has been 25 years since such a drama had occurred in arenas in Spain, a young bullfighter, Victor BARRIO, was killed after receiving a bull’s horn at the Féria de Teruel in Aragon. On the spot, bullfighting is still dividing, and Catalonia decided in 2012 to ban all bullfighting in its province. Comment on factual and archival images and interview-archives of Christian MONTCOUQUIOL.
Several associations are calling for a ban on bullfights, tolerated in the south of France where they are part of the tradition. The Supreme Judges of the Constitutional Council have been seized with their decision tomorrow. Many personalities have positioned themselves on the subject. Commentary on factual images and illustration images alternating with interviews with David CHAUVET (Vice-President of the Association Animal Rights), Maître Emmanuel PIWNICA (lawyer of the Union des villes taurines française), Philippe CAUBERE (actor) and Henry-Jean SERVAT (columnist).