forthcoming screenings
The gut, our second brain
Wednesday 18th March 2015 at 20h15 - Cinéma Christine Action (Paris 6è)
Selection of Pariscience 2014
This discovery of a new intelligence in our belly makes researchers beginning to admit that our brain is not quite the only one being in command.Some brain disorders, such as Parkinson, could trace their origins in our belly and start by attacking our intestine’s neurons. Even more astonishingly, our second brain contains a spectacular colony of hundred thousand billions bacteria whose activity has an impact on our personality, our choices, our shyness or, on the contrary, our recklessness.
A few years ago, scientists discovered the existence of a second brain in our body. There are 200 million neurons in our belly! Researchers are just beginning to decrypt the permanent secret dialogue between these two brains. Their discovery has opened great hopes for new therapies.
Screening during the "week of the brain" (16-22 march)
Les champignons pourront-ils sauver le monde?
Saturday 14th March 2015 at 21h00 - Cinéma La Lucarne (Créteil)
Selection of Pariscience 2013
Behind the provocative title, the film throws light on the world of mycotechnology, one of the most promising avenues for dealing with the many challenges threatening the modern world.
Screened again on the 19th of march at 6.30 pm
The Autism Enigma
Friday 13th March 2015 at 22h20 - Arte
Selection of Pariscience 2012
Autism is the fastest rising developmental disorder in the industrialized world. With an astounding 600% Autism increase in the last 20 years, scientists are still grappling with it’s cause. Research is inconclusive, but the emerging theme is that autism is triggered by environment, not genetics, and that our toxic lifestyle is now proving too much for children to bear.
Love & Engineering
Friday 13th March 2015 at 17h15 - Cinéma Caméo Saint Sébastien (Nancy)
Selection of Pariscience 2014
Atanas is trying to develope a scientific formula for mating and the finding of a perfect wife. He uses other engineers as his guinea pigs; lectures them his ideas and sends them out to test them in the real world. He communicates with them by earphones andwireless during their set up meetings with girls. Is it even possible or worthwhile to work your way through life scientifically? Are rules of attraction, sex and love scientific and if they are, do we really want to know them?
Screening of the Festival du film de chercheur
Science of fasting
Friday 06th March 2015 at 22h30 - Arte
Selection of Pariscience 2011
These researches suggest a wide-ranging potential, which could include treatments for the disease of the century, cancer. If these scientists are right, maybe our approach to disease and treatment will need a rethink.While life expectancy is increasing in Western countries, cases of diabetes, hypertension, obesity and cancer are increasing, and the use of medication has exploded.Does this mean that in order to live to a ripe age we are condemned to swallow more and more drugs? What if there was another way? For half a century, in Russia, Germany and the U.S., doctors and biologists have been exploring a different therapeutic approach: fasting.The results are amazing.Soviet researchers have provided a body of clinical studies of exceptional wealth ...only published in Russian, and thus unknown in the West.Young biologists from the University of Los Angeles have overturned conventional wisdom and used molecular biology to demonstrate the powerful effects of fasting.