Animal rights activists, whose influence is growing, are working to put an end to humanity’s exploitation of animals. Why continue to kill animals when there are other options? Giving up meat and trying a vegan lifestyle for over 100 days—that’s the challenge filmmaker Mathurin Peschet set for himself. A journey from omnivore to vegan, full of questions about our habits and our society, which he recounts in his documentary “Dans la peau d'un végan”.

Animal rights activists, whose influence is growing, are working to put an end to humanity’s exploitation of animals. Why continue to kill animals when there are other options? Giving up meat and trying a vegan lifestyle for over 100 days—that’s the challenge filmmaker Mathurin Peschet set for himself. A journey from omnivore to vegan, full of questions about our habits and our society, which he recounts in his documentary “Dans la peau d'un végan”.

In 1994, at over seventy years old, Gilberte and William Sportisse, threatened by the FIS, arrived from Algeria. Of Jewish faith, he of Arabic mother tongue, they formed a fighting couple, started for the independence of Algeria, always with an unshakeable faith in humanity. They enjoy recounting the participation of Algerian Jews in the Second World War and the struggle for Algerian independence. They provide us with previously unpublished information on the public and clandestine struggles of the Algerian Communist Party before and after independence, and on the repression of activists who, like William and Gilberte Sportisse, were tortured and imprisoned after Colonel Boumédiène came to power. The film is an ode to understanding between people of different origins or cultures and a tribute to a couple whose youthful character and enthusiasm still astonish.