Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon France Télévisions documentaries, Digi Mart USA News: Located 25 kilometers from the Canadian coast, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is a small piece of France in North America. With 5,790 inhabitants, the archipelago is the least populated of France’s overseas territories and one of the most isolated.
Long a simple fishing outpost, it now aims to leverage its unique geographic position, near the Arctic route and in close proximity to Canada and the United States, to become a geostrategic platform spanning airport, digital and space activities.
That ambition, however, is being pursued on territory at the front line of climate change. On Miquelon, the sea is advancing and the village is retreating.
The 600 residents of this shingle spit, battered by storms, are seeing their village rebuilt on higher ground two kilometers away, sheltered from the waves. It is the first relocation of an entire village in France, a pioneering project the archipelago hopes will serve as a model for other threatened territories.
On Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, another struggle is taking place more quietly. Since the late 1970s, people with disabilities and those who support them have made solidarity a daily reality so that everyone can find their place.
Over the decades, families, professionals and associations have built local solutions enabling those concerned to live, work and grow up on their territory.
France Télévisions’ Overseas division is presenting two documentaries that examine our relationship with territory, climate and difference. Two perspectives on the same archipelago, driven by the same determination to hold on together despite obstacles.
Monday, November 23 at xx.xx on France 3, La1ere.fr and france.tv. The island of Miquelon, off the coast of Canada, is threatened by rising sea levels linked to climate change.
This community of 600 residents could see its homes submerged by 2100, according to one of the scenarios of the IPCC. Facing this threat, the mayor and local authorities have made a decision never before seen in France: to move the entire village to relocate it out of harm’s way.
This project, a first on national territory, makes Miquelon a genuine climate study laboratory, where residents are becoming, against their will, France’s first climate refugees.
52 minutes, directed by Luc de Saint-Sernin, produced by Camera One, with the participation of France Télévisions Overseas division, 2026.
About sixty people on Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon live with disabilities. Closeness among residents fosters acceptance of difference.
Families, professionals and associations have, over the decades, devised solutions so that each person can live and grow up among their loved ones. Since the founding of the association Vivre Ensemble in the late 1970s, local support has gradually been structured around educational assistance, professional integration and housing, from childhood to adulthood.
Through portraits and life stories, the documentary meets those who sustain this solidarity every day, driven by a rare positive energy. Attitudes toward disability have changed, but needs remain significant and resources are sometimes insufficient.
On the archipelago, “living together” takes on its full meaning, with a shared ambition: enabling everyone to find their place in society.
53 minutes, written and directed by Xavier Fréquant, produced by Wapiti Productions and Screen Addict, with the participation of France Télévisions Overseas division, 2025.
