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It is necessary to know about history to understand what is going on today. TV is said to be versatile: how many ways do we have to deal with historical topics? Can TV be a privileged tool? To what extent? Is our mandate to innovate for the sake of it or to be the “conveyor”? NO WAR NO PEACE describes the difficult situation of East German painters having to deal with the present political situation and German history from which they cannot escape. Television demonstrates... SIDIA DIOP OR THE IMPOSSIBLE ASSIMILATION goes for a man’s personal history. It illustrates the search of African countries for their past and identity. Television becomes the medium... ITAM, HAKIM, HOPIIT is a mythical testament and eulogy in recognition of the HOPI. The subject connects to a desire to use the medium but also its own language. Television explores... THE BUSINESS WOMAN uses History as background and allows a director to fantasize over it. History becomes Fiction. Television creates...