“ The Forest Maker », this is how the world knows the Australian agronomist Tony Rinaudo, winner of the alternative Nobel Prize in 2018. At the initiative of a movement of massive reforestation of the arid lands of Niger, his ambition is to give back life on land that was once arable, since ravaged by intensive agriculture practiced on a large scale since colonization. German director Volker Schlöndorff (who won a Palme d’Or for The drum) followed him when he returned to Niger and made a documentary-essay entitled The man who raises the trees.
