catalogue
Power of the cell (The)
This documentary shows scientists from France, Germany, Sweden and Moldova, as they carry out work in their various fields of stem cells research. They include a gynaecologist from Bochum in Germany who proves in tests on rats that stem cells from the umbilical cord blood are capable of repairing...
Power of the Planet : Rare Earth
Who is the most vulnerable: Earth or Mankind? In this spectacular new five part series, geologist Dr Iain Stewart explores the great forces that have come together to shape our world. It's taken four and a half billions years to turn the Earth from a barren rock to the world we know today – a...
Principle of relativity according to Bernadette (The)
Bernadette talks about her perception of time, totally changed by relativity: when she finds her father cosmonaut, she could be his mother! The principle of relativity explained in animation.
Przewalski, the last wild horse
Przewalski's wild horse is a species that has been extinct in the wild for half a century now. We shall observe the reintroduction of a dozen of the horses to Mongolia, their natural habitat, thanks to the Takh association that has spent twenty years working to return these animals to the wild.
Public enemy N°1 : Carbon
Global warming has now become a frightening reality. The scientific community is rallying to try and avoid its most dramatic consequences. CO2 is Public Enemy N°1, should global warming continue at the prevailing rate, carbon dioxide could make our planet more and more inhospitable… Will...
Quand homo sapiens faisait son cinéma
Quand Homo sapiens faisait son cinema takes the spectator on the first tracks of the cinematograph through 20.000 years of palaeolithic art. Foolish proposal? Not at all! A new reading of the rock art paintings and engravings reveals numerous cases of decomposition of the movement of animals...
Quand la science traque les criminels
Hightech in criminal investigation : in the crime series CSI no sequel is possible without it. But hightech also enters the reality of criminal investigation; the perfect crime could become almost impossible. The so-called Virtobot, a robot that can do MRI and other scans of a human body is used...
Quants - The alchemists of Wall Street
What are the risks of treating the economy and its markets as a complex machine? Will we be able to keep control of this model-based financial system, or have we created a monster? Quants are the smart math wizards and computer programmers in the engine room of our global financial system who...
Quantum Tamers : revealing our weird & wired future (The)
From deep inside the sewers of Vienna to cutting-edge quantum computing labs to voyages into the minds of the world’s brightest thinkers, including the renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, The Quantum Tamers: Revealing our Weird & Wired Future explores the coming quantum technological...
Quest for the Lost Pharaoh
The captivating story of one’s man pursuit and discovery of a new necropolis in Egypt’s South Saqqara, which will reveal the mysterious history of four pharaohs from the Old Kingdom, lost to history over 4.000 years ago. Archaeologist Vassil Dobrev attempts to resolve the mystery of their...
Radioactive waste, the nuclear nightmare
Waste is the nuclear industry's Achilles heel – and its worst nightmare. Populations are afraid of it and scientists still have not found a satisfactory way of dealing with it. Meanwhile, the heads of the industry try to reassure us and politicians avoid the issue. What exactly do we know about...
Raising Resistance
The documentary is about the fight of the campesinos, the small farmers of Paraguay, against the more and more aggressively expanding production of genetic soy in the country. On the basis of this conflict it describes the global impact that the use of most modern genetic engineering in the 21st...
Ramses II, the Great Journey
More than 3200 years ago…. Under the reign of Ramesses the Second, pharaoh of the New Empire’s 19th dynasty, Egypt is living the final hours of its golden age. After a prestigious reign of 67 years, the powerful pharaoh dies at the exceptional age of 92. He becomes for all time the legendary...
Rats, the islands' pirates
At the heart of an ambitious research programme on different islands of the globe, researchers are trying to understand the secrets of the incredible expansion of the black rat Rattus rattus. They study the threats posed by this small rodent on 80% of the islands of the world. Indeed, this animal...
Redemption Impossible
In a hermetically sealed off park in Austria our civilization’s moral challenges collide: guilt, responsibility, redemption. Fourty chimpanzees survived HIV experiments „serving mankind“. Traumatized, highly aggressive and mentally isolated. Today four caretakers manage a unique...
Regenesis
This series of detective fiction stages the scientists NorBAC, fictional investigative biotechnology institute based in Toronto and the territories involved Canadian, American and mexiacain. These experts track down all kinds of viruses, genetic engineering and all forms of bio-terrorism.
Researchers of History
On the occasion of the centenary of the French School of the Far East, this film traces the activity of four scientists in China, Japan and Cambodia stressing their role in the conservation of South-East Asia’s heritage.
Resurrection Science
Imagine a living, breathing dinosaur, mammoth, or Neanderthal. This is the story of science's latest frontier. 'Resurrection Science' is a global scientific investigation into DNA sequencing and bio-molecular cloning, to understand how scientists around the world are competing to be the first to...
Revolution in the Reef
How can one make the the world aware of the need to protect an ecosystem? Coral reefs are some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet – and continuously get severely damaged by climate change, natural disasters and human beings. By declaring the Great Barrier Reef a National Park with...
Ringed planet (The)
Saturn. Girdled by its mighty rings, this is the most instantly recognizable yet least understood of the planets. Now, after a seven-year journey through the solar system, the Cassini spacecraft has finally arrived for what should prove to be an unforgettable four year orbital mission: “For...
Risk for legacy
The tremendous hopes that have been put in genetic research are not only scientific, they are also for a large part economic. Therefore, a business vs. science conflict around genes was unavoidable. For Europe, it begun in January 2001.The European Patent Office recorded the patent of Myriad...
River Travellers
Explorer Stéphane Lévin is the instigator of Science travellers, a unique series of three scientific expeditions conceived for high-school pupils. The film retraces the extraordinary experience of six young adventurers during the last expedition in French Guiana. Their goal: to gain insights...
ROBOT REVOLUTION: Will Machines Surpass Humans?
This film will be screened with French subtitles. Humanoid robots are being created to meet increasing worldwide demand. Such robots can move on their own volition, climb stairs, and even handle tools. Due to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan has speeded up their development. Unfortunately,...
Rosetta the comet chaser
Also in High School Competition January 2014. After a 10-year voyage, Rosetta space probe will have to be woken up. In a few months, it will have reached its goal: the comet 67P. At 450 million km from Earth a crucial stage in this European Space Agency mission will then unfold, the first in the...
Running Wild
Vincent Munier is a world-renowned photographer who explores desolate lands and vast open spaces in search of the fleeting and the wild. His work has always been driven by passion and adventure. In this first episode, we head to the Ethiopian highlands. Up here on the roof of Abyssinia lives...
Sailing the north pole
This programme is a documentary about the expedition of Sebastien Roubinet et Rodolphe André who have decided to cross the Arctic Ocean from Alaska to the Norwegian islands of Spitsbergen, via the geographic North Pole! For this, Sébastien Roubinet has invented a strange little boat...
Saved by the Seals?
Can seals be used as barometers for our climate? On a beach of the lost islands of Kerguelen, sleeps a seal. She is going to supply vital new information about how our planet functions, and about global warming. Christophe Guinet, a French scientist, is going to catch and equip her with...
Science Gangsters
Three major frauds have shaken the scientific community for decades and have marked this century in an exemplary fashion in various fields: psychology, genetics and prehistory. If all these frauds have found their dupe, this is because in general they were in line with the prejudices of the...
Science goes to the Beach
The film takes viewers to a pleasant day at the beach, then asks them to squat down, take a closer look, and let themselves get drawn into the tiny world of seashore creatures. Sea urchins, small jellyfish, starfish, cuttlefish, shellfish, shrimp and more: you can stumble upon these animals any...
Science of fasting
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 to live to a ripe age we are condemned to swallow more and more drugs? What if there was another way? For half...
Sciences in consciousness, the ethical reflection
The history of science is marked out by drift against which societies wanted to protect themselves. Born after Nuremberg and Hiroshima, the bioethics defines itself as reflection on the possible limits to be put to applications of the research in the domains of the biology, the medicine and the...
Sea Rex
Sea Rex immerses audiences in a wondrous adventure from the dinosaur age. In the company of Julie, an imaginative young woman, and a mysterious scientist from the past (Georges Cuvier), viewers will magically travel from a modern-day aquarium to the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. They...
Secret Life of Materials (The)
This film will be screened in original version with french subtitles. From the earliest tool hewn from a single piece of stone, more than 2.5 million years ago, to advanced robotics connected to the human nervous system, the history of human civilization is a history of materials. Today more than...
Secrets Held in the Ice (The)
The session will be led by Laurent Desse, educational head for Wild Touch. Convinced that the Antarctic ices contain important information for the understanding of our planet’s climatic history, he will continue his researches without respite for three decades. After thirty years of...
Secrets of longevity
Doesn't everybody want to live to a ripe old age in good health? For decades, researchers have been trying to decipher the mechanisms of aging and counteract the diseases that occur with age. However, sometimes research takes a short cut... There is a valley in Ecuador where some people seem to be...
Secrets of the Parthenon
Though revered as a symbol of beauty and perfection, for 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes and explosions, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by catastrophic renovations. Now, to save it from collapse, the modern restoration team must uncover the...
See for yourself
Visual impairment of very different forms (blindness, low vision from birth, following an accident or illness) is often poorly understood by the population. There are almost 100.000 visual impaired in France today and almost 1 million and a half of low vision person. Like other handicaped, the...
See No Evil
This film will be screened with French subtitles. SEE NO EVIL portrays the daily life of three famous elderly apes who spend their days in retirement homes; a movie-star, a scientist and a crippled. We have watched and taught them for many years, as they have watched us. A sometimes bitter,...
Seeking the Current
Nicolas Boisclair and Alexis de Gheldere canoe the entire 500 km course of the pristine Romaine River before Hydro-Québec begins construction of four hydroelectric plants. In parallel, accompanied by Roy Dupuis, one of the most renown Canadian actor, they explore the various renewable green...
Seine estuary, at the bedside... (The)
Because it gathers the conditions and environments of great biological wealth, the estuary of the Seine is a must for wildlife. However, the river was largely built in defiance of this delicate balance, and emissions from industrial or agricultural activities threaten this already highly degraded...
Sentinel Animals
Certain animal species possess surprising physiological faculties in front of pollutions or in the announcement of an imminent natural disaster. Their instinct or their physiology, their nearness with the nature, make the best allies of the man in the prevention of natural and industrial risks...
Shale Gas
Tar sands and shale gas and oil seem to be the solutions to the fall in oil extraction. This film weighs up the reality of the alternative bedrock hydrocarbon fuels (known as unconventional oil and gas). It analyses ten years of extraction throughout the world in terms of its environmental,...
Shale Gas Rush (The)
A fad? No, a rush, everywhere in North America and the province of Quebec is among the targets. There might be important reserves of natural gas in the Saint-Lawrence Lowlands of Quebec in Canada. The energetic and economic potential might be considerable. But to extract this gas, one must...
Shaman, his nephew... and the captain (The)
Palawan Island in the Philippines: Medsinu succeeds his father as shaman, in a community living in the forest and pressured by the modern world. His nephew Issad falls ill and can no longer work the land, so he joins the militia of the local "captain". But he has to choose whether or not to obey...
Shapes of the Invisible: crab (The)
Amazing dive into te heart of the matter thanks to an original visual principle: a regular, fluid forward zoom, beginning with the subject as seen by the nacked eye, then exploring its texture or its composition, with images provided by ever more powerful microscopes.
Shapes of the Invisible: steel
Amazing dive into te heart of the matter thanks to an original visual principle: a regular, fluid forward zoom, beginning with the subject as seen by the nacked eye, then exploring its texture or its composition, with images provided by ever more powerful microscopes.
Shark sex
It is part of the lives of sharks that had never been observed: the reproduction. Two young French researchers will hold an experience unique in the world : following female sandbar shark by acoustic telemetry. They chose the perfect place for it, Rangiroa Atoll (French Polynesia), in the...
Silent Snow
Film screened in French at the festival The Arctic plains are an eminent example of nature’s untouched beauty: an endless nothing in which only few know how to survive. But dangerous pesticides are silently accumulating here, poisoning its inhabitants. A young Inuit woman investigates the...
Sister's voices (My)
How does one live with schizophrenia ? How does one talk about it ? How would someone affected by the condition deal with medical professionals, with their family and with everyone else ? « The voices of my sister » is both a portrait and a personal account of living with the condition. The film...
Skin Deep
We live in a world of "black" and "white". For hundreds of years, human skin colour has been used as a marker of race. Now, science is uncovering the intricate relationship between skin colour and environment to reveal its crucial role in survival and reproduction. Skin colour tells a...