UNESCO

February 2010. On a remote island in the Pacific Ocean called Juan Fernández, everyone slept in town. But a 12-year-old girl felt a tremor and warned of imminent danger.

Back home in Bujumbura with a Parisian diploma in his pocket and expecting to walk into a civil service job, Gito finds himself both unemployed and caught between two women: his current French girlfriend Christine and his local old flame Flora.

What do the Phoenix Islands in the Pacific Ocean, the Wadden Sea in the North Sea and Cocos Island National Park in Costa Rica have in common? These are just three of the 43 exceptional marine places inscribed on the World Heritage List and protected under UNESCO's World Heritage Convention. You'll get a peek at some of the crown jewels of our oceans and learn about UNESCO's Marine World Heritage Program.

UNESCO-funded "one world" documentary by Paul Rotha and Basil Wright.

The filmmaker Sarah Maldoror films the writer Édouard Glissant at the Fort de Joux (in the Jura), in the cell where the Haitian general Toussaint Louverture was held prisoner until his death in 1803. She then talks to Aimé Césaire at Le Diamant in Martinique, in front of Laurent Valère's "Cap 110" memorial. The documentary also includes short interviews with Roland Suvélor and Madeleine de Grandmaison, and the reading of texts performed by Greg Germain.