Jan 25: Dedication with Ismaël Khelifa

The host of Échappées Belles will be present on Saturday, January 25, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the pop-up store Lagoped x TO THE OLD CAMPER , to dedicate his first novel: What Life Has Most Beautiful. 

Ismael Khelifa is a director, journalist, nature guide and lecturer, specializing in polar regions. Since 2019, he has co-hosted Échappées belles on France 5. With his first novel, he tells the touching encounter between a father, a photographer, and his son, in the northwest of Iceland.

What if Nature could repair souls and bring people together?

The career of Romain Solers, 35, photographer, is on the rise. His photos, taken while immersed in the heart of the wilderness, with the women and men who live there, are being taken around the world and even the Cannes Film Festival is paying tribute to him. But his life is turned upside down when he receives an unexpected visit from Nathan, the son he has not recognized or even met.

Confused, Romain doesn't know what attitude to adopt towards this teenager whom life doesn't seem to have spared. Against all odds, he decides to take him with him on an expedition for his next report. Direction Hornstrandir, a lost and windswept peninsula in the northwest of Iceland. The touching encounter between a father and his son, in a breathtaking setting.

Author, director, journalist and writer, Ismaël Khelifa is also a naturalist guide and lecturer, specializing in the polar regions. Former presenter of Rendez-vous en terre inconnue, he has co-hosted Échappées belles on France 5 since 2019. Ce que la vie a de plus beau is his first adult novel.