Cyril Dion

After a brief career as a comedian, Cyril has coordinated a series of projects for the Foundation Hommes de Parole. He helped organize the Israeli-Palestinian Congress in Caux, Switzerland, in 2003. He worked on the 1st and the 2nd World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace, in Brussels in 2005 and in Seville in 2006. In 2007 he created, along with Pierre Rabhi and some friends, the movement of Hummingbirds, which he directed until July 2013. Today he is spokesperson of the movement and member of the board. He co-founded the magazine Kaizen. In 2010 he co-produced with Hummingbirds the documentary SOLUTIONS LOCALES POUR UN DÉSORDRE GLOBAL, directed by Coline Serreau. In 2014 he published a collection of poems, Assis sur le fil (Ed. La Table Ronde) and in 2015 he directed with Mélanie Laurent the documentary TOMORROW (Demain). The film won a César for best documentary and was presented in several festivals, including the 2016 Giffoni Film Festival.

Director's statement

“In 2014, when I shot the film TOMORROW with Mélanie Laurent, we had the chance to meet and interview Anthony Barnosky and Liz Hadly, two scientists from Stanford University, specialists in the study of species. By listening to them, by doing research, I took the measure of what scientists around the world call the sixth mass extinction. The last time so many species disappeared in such large numbers and in such a short time was during the age of the dinosaurs. Not only does this situation jeopardize our own existence, but it questions our place on this planet. In view of all the discoveries on the intelligence and sensitivity of animals, do human beings have the right to colonize all of space and voluntarily or involuntarily eradicate all other forms of life on Earth? With this film, we wanted, like what I was able to do in TOMORROW, to understand how we arrived at this situation, but above all what solutions are available to us.”