Gil Kébaïli

Méditerranée : la face immergée des volcans (2023)

With the help of diver and biologist Laurent Ballesta, a scientific expedition explores three sunken Italian volcanic sites in the Mediterranean. ...

The Deep Med (2020)

The Mediterranean. Because people have been travelling there for thousands of years, it is believed to be without secrets. And yet, far below its surface, lie vast unexplored territories, luxurious gardens worthy of the finest tropical coral reefs. These n ...

Sulawesi, expédition au coeur de l'île mystère (2019)

Surviving the Lagoon (2018)

In the heart of the a vast ocean, the atolls of the Pacific are like oasis in a sprawling desert. Each one contains a unique and breathtaking environment. Where the reef breaks, the ecosystem of the lagoon flourishes. Filmed in UHD and extreme slow motion, ...

Groenland, les murmures de la glace (2018)

Antarctica, in the footsteps of the Emperor (2016)

Gombessa Expedition 3 Protected by an international treaty Antarctica has been spared the effects of hunting and fishing. But signs in ice's cyclical patterns and its biodiversity have become worrying. Connected to the planet's global ecosystem via atmosp ...

700 Sharks (Gombessa 4, Genesis) (2016)

Originally, in 2014, Laurent Ballesta had just one precise objective: to unravel the mystery of groupers. To understand the issues involved in their collective reproduction. But although focused on the study of groupers, the real surprise came from the sha ...

The Grouper Mystery (2015)

In French Polynesia, there is a place where every year, thousands of groupers gather in secret followed by hundreds of sharks… The photographer, diver and biologist Laurent Ballesta, with his team, wanted to better understand what motivates these fish to ...

La Véritable Histoire du radeau de La Méduse (2015)

On July 5, 1816, the raft of La Méduse, about 20 by 12 meters, began its slow drift. They left at 151 and 13 days later, after a hellish journey, arrived at 15... Who knows the true story of Le Radeau de La Méduse? Painted in 1819, Théodore Géricault' ...

Frankreich aus der Luft (2014)

France is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. The fascinating variety of landscapes combined with a rich cultural heritage, symbolized by fantastic buildings and cathedrals the beauty of France. Almost 3500 kilometers of coastline w ...

The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins (2013)

Gombessa Expedition 1 To dive for the Coelacanth is to go back in time. In 1938, when it was known only as a fossil, a Coelacanth was discovered in South Africa in a fisherman's net. This species bears witness to an evolutionary bifurcation 380 million ye ...

Méditerranée : la face immergée des volcans (2023)

With the help of diver and biologist Laurent Ballesta, a scientific expedition explores three sunken Italian volcanic sites in the Mediterranean. ...