Yann Arthus-Bertrand: People's planet

Human, a documentary by French director Yann Arthus-Bertrand, features real stories of 2,020 people from 60 countries in 63 different languages. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Several such interviews make up a themed section of the film, which is separated from the next by breathtaking aerial shots of landscapes and mass human activities.

Without an off-screen voice asking questions, the sequences easily hold audience attention with their content.

The interviews cover a wide range of topics－religion, war, death, immigration, homosexuality and love, among others－says the director.

Commenting on the film, Anastasia Mikova, head of the interview shoots, says in the movie's introduction pamphlet: "After the interviews that went well, the people involved would often thank me, saying that I was the first person to listen to them, or that it was the first time they had said what they had said."