catalogue
Theory of evolution: from Darwin to genetic
In this year of the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the author of The Origin of Species, the famous theory of evolution published in 1859, Fred and Jamy question the origins of species and the human race. Since the 19th century, scientific and technological advances have allowed the...
There is a Treasure in my trash
Mobile phones melted in golden lingots, planes been reincarnated in scooter, shards of glass and worn tires transformed into long-lasting houses... The waste raises a problem of place and pollution, but they can be transformed into ressources. Beyond the alarmist report, the movie proposes an...
These animals that bother us
Environmental thrillers in which every episode features an animal in the center of an imbroglio. Here, are exposed appetites, tensions, and interests of political or other schools of thought...
Through the stone
400m deep under limestone, flows a river. This cave is the famous Pierre Saint-Martin: at over 1500m depth over 50km of underground galleries collect several rivers coming out into the open air after a mysterious journey 10 km away.
Tigers and Men
Paradox, there are more tigers in captivity than in the wild, where the species is threatened because the population is estimated at about 3200 wild individuals. This documentary portrays Remy Demantes, one of the only French having a certificate of competency that allows him to hold and soak...
Time goes by like a roaring lion
This film will be screened with French subtitles. A filmmaker in the statistical middle of his life suffers from chronophobia. He has to find a way to slow down the passage of time. A personal essayfilm exploring the essence of time.
Time Limits
What is time? Why does our perception of it change so much? We perceive time in terms of seconds – the length of a heartbeat. We can’t even imagine events that unfold over several days, like a growing plant, without time-lapse photography, but “Time Limits” uses a combination of amazing...
Time of Biomasters (the)
From Orwell to Steven Spielberg, fiction has always been interested in the "progress" -technical or scientific- in controlling identities. However, to see Tom Cruise being grafted eyes to escape the control of iris in Minority Report, you will soon drag your finger in a fingerprint reader to have...
Tipping Point
Each year the oceans, produce half of our oxygen. They represent nearly one half of the productivity of the planet. And they are threatened. We know that, by producing ever increasing amounts of CO2, man is turning the climate upside down. Since very recently, we also know that the excess of...
To Infinity and Beyond
By our third year, most of us will have learned to count. Once we know how, it seems as if there would be nothing to stop us counting forever. But, while infinity might seem like an perfectly innocent idea, keep counting and you enter a paradoxical world where nothing is as it seems. Mathematicians...
Tokyo a coming laboratory (Les nouveaux explorateurs)
In 2030, eighty per cent of the world population will be urban. The major challenge of the future lies therefore in these megalopolises. On this new exploration, Priscilla Telmon has chosen Tokyo to reveal initiatives that will improve the Japanese lifestyle.
Tomatoes are seeing red
Do tomatoes still have any taste? Andrea Bergala is conducting the investigation in France, Spain, Russia, in fields, greenhouses, markets or laboratories, meeting farmers, industrialists, scientists and chefs. She invites the consumers to be more serious -with fun- about what is in our plates.
Tomorrow, a world without ice? Life in suspension
Since the end of the last glaciation 20,000 years ago, a unique wildlife has adapted, and with what ingenuity, the polar regions. This adaptation is so complete that global warming threatens all species emblematic of the cold polar bears, caribou, emperor penguin ice or fish, but all fauna and...
Tortoise heating up (The)
Appeared with its shell 215 million years ago, the tortoise survived dinosaurs. It has always adapted to different climate and ecological changes. However, will it survive to the present global change ? From Greek tortoise to Hermann tortoise, including the African spurred tortoise, the giant...
Toto, a Very Important Parasite
Is this nematomorphic worm really a manipulative? Among all parasites, Toto appears to be a frightening "Alien" but it's real! Beyond its spectacular behaviour, the film offers you to share the fascinating daily life of a young and brilliant team of scientists. Toto is a parasite belonging to...
Toumaï, enquiry on our origins
July 2002, in the Djourab desert of North Chad. Culminating more than twenty years of work, Michel Brunet, director of the French-Chadian Paleoanthropological Mission (MPFT) announces the discovery of our oldest human ancestor recorded to date. The creature, better known as Toumaï, is seven...
Toumaï, the New Ancestor
July 2001, in the Djourab desert of north Chad. Culminating more than twenty years of work, Michel Brunet, director of the French-Chadian Paleoanthropological Mission (MPFT) announces the discovery of our oldest human ancestor recorded to date. The creature, better known as Toumaï, is seven...
Toxic Playground
Swedish Lars, 23, is studying film in Chile. 12-year old Jocelyn is a belly dancer and wants to become a doctor. But her hips are beginning to crumble. Lars finds out that hundreds of kids in Jocelyn's city of Arica in the north of Chile, have fallen badly ill because of toxic waste from his home...
Tracking the Giant Squid
September 28, 2005, a world premiere: a team of Japanese scientists led by Dr Tsunemi Kobodera has successfully photographed the most mysterious of all marine animals, the Architeutix Dux, in its natural habitat. It is the largest of all giant squids, reaching up to 18 meters in length and...
Tracking the Jura Dinosaurs
This 30-minute documentary links together the research on the dinosaur track sites carried out on both sides of the Franco-Swiss border. It means that a map of this cooperation on the theme of the Jura can be drawn up which could well prove to be crucial for the future of palaeontological research...
Trapped like rats?
The film focuses on a series of experiments conducted by Didier Desor, lecturer and researcher at Nancy-Université. Groups of six rats have to dive and swim underwater to get some food. A role distrubution - remarkably constant from one group to another - appears: certain rats are...
Tuned to climates
Egyptian Sahara, on the West of the Nile, is the most arid region of the world. Its grand landscapes are protected from any raid because this region is of a very difficult access. We discover here traces of lakes dried up since millenniums and even, lost in thousands of kilometers of any oasis,...
Under the sign of the snake
Xavier Bonnet was born “under the sign of the snake”. A herpetologist of international renown, he travels the world seeking to discover the secrets of reptiles. Fascinated by their survival strategies and their capacity for adaptation, he studies how certain species evolve in extreme...
Unearthing the Lost Kingdom of Aratta
In 2001, south-eastern Iran, the change of course Halil Rud River has revealed the presence of thousands of artifacts dating back over five thousand years, traces of a civilization unknown to date. Scientists are unanimous on the importance of this discovery that could call into question the common...
Universe of the Oceans
Oceans cover three-quarters of the earth's surface, and yet we know less about them than about distant planets. With the most up to date underwater shooting technology, scientists show us newly found colourful and sometimes bizarre organisms of the deep. They illuminate mysteries surrounding the...
Up in smoke
Film screened in French at the festival This is a film about a technique that could save more carbon emissions annually than all global aviation combined. It is a film about one of the biggest contributors to tropical deforestation and global warming: slash and burn agriculture. The film...
Urine Superpowers
Many of us are oblivious to the fact that our first months of life were actually spent swimming in urine. Indeed, the amniotic sac is made up of 80% urine, from the fetus and on average, the fetus releases two glasses of pee per day. During our lives, each of us will have produced 38.000 liters of...
Vanuatu, islands of pigs
In the middle of the Pacific, on the islands of Vanuatu, people like an animal… Sacred stones honorits memory, drums announce its presence, dances, singings celebrate its value, it embodies the wealth, it is in the center of the traditions. For centuries, the natives of Vanuatu venerate...
Venice and the ghost ship
The archaeologist Marco d'Agostino monitors the Venice lagoon. It identifies eight meters deep wreck could be a galea, the iconic vessel of the Republic of Venice in the days when it controlled the trade in luxury goods from China to London. The history of this unique search for which any one area...
Venice lagoon, a quiet area (The)
The whole world knows Venice is threatened by floodwaters. Now is the lagoon which is jeopardized by the same operations that aim to safeguard the city of Venice. 55 km from north to south, the lagoon of Venice is one of the largest wetland in Europe, the largest in Italy, a veritable...
Vigia
My grandfather is telling me a story that he invented, and asks me to make a film out of it. Because of pollution, pesticides, and other toxic substances, a bee decides to leave her hive, looking for a more comfortable place for her to live in.
Vive La France
The film includes passages in Polynesian subtitled in English. Through the love story of a young couple living on a sand atoll only 100 km from a former French nuclear test site an even greater story of our vulnerability as human beings is told. The issue of atomic weapons is once again raised...
VOUS ÊTES LIBRE
Our society, through the media, does not stop repeating us that we are free. And we keep believing of this. Nevertheless, for more than a century of experiment, a branch of the psychology says to us the opposite. This discipline, the social psychology, is underestimated by the general public while...
Voyage au centre de la mer
Oceans play a major role in climate control. This film invites us to an astonishing trip into the mighty deep with oceanographers, biologists, physicists trying to understand how this huge machine works.
Voyage entre Sol et Terre
Claude and Lydia Bourguignon, agricultural engineers, propose to revisit a number of agricultural practices. They study the ground more than the earth and they spend two-thirds of the year in France and abroad digging holes. They observe, feel, taste the earth before extracting samples at...
Walking on earth... in Uganda
Sabrina Krief has been living in Uganda more than 10 years with chimps. As a brilliant and young primatologist, she did an amazing discovery. Chimps are able to select plants to heal. Sabrina has her own challenge : she wants to use these plants to find drugs for mutual diseases we share with our...
War and peace in the kitchen garden
Within a kitchen garden where no chemical treatments are used, bugs are everywhere. The more numerous they are, the more there are chances to find an "assistant gardener" insect preying on the enemies of vegetables. But animal laws are far from being as tender as those of the gardeners! In the...
War hospital
Shot in cinéma vérité, War Hospital intensely immerses the viewer in the sights and sounds of the world's largest field hospital. Over the past eighteen years the International Committee of the Red Cross has cared for victims of the civil war in Sudan - the longest-running conflict in Africa -...
Waste = Food
To protect our planet, should we recycle everything? A documentary about the Cradle to Cradle principle: designers and manufacturers should incorporate the recyclability of the materials of which the products are made off. Each product, once it's discarded, should be (non-toxic) food for the...
Welcome to Mars
The sequel to MARS Dead or Alive follows the ups and downs of the Mars Exploration Rover scientists and engineers exploring Mars with twin robot geologists.
Welcome to the nanoworld: Nanos, nanos, everywhere
In the late 20th century, computer technology revolutionized work, leisure and industry. With the 21st century, our understanding of the phenomena at play at the very heart of matter allows us to contemplate materials with new properties copied directly from nature. Not to mention manufacturing...
What are Lucid Dreams ?
It is the „silver bullet to the unconscious mind” said Freud about the dream. It is a waste-product of neuronic activity is the quote of brain-researcher. Nevertheless: the scientific occupation with dreams booms. One reason is current discoveries of the abilities of lucid dreamers. To a...
What danse tells us
During rehearsals for a choreography of Jerome Robbins with music by Philip Glass, a psychologist studying the relationship of the dancer's own body, dancer-choreographer relationship, the relationship between spectator and dancer.
What is a black hole?
The story revolves around 4 main characters: the man, the monkey, the black hole and the cosmic monster. The man and the monkey bring a reality element to the story; they are the earthly witnesses, forever conniving, but never quite understanding the nature of the events that affect them. They...
What is the purpose of Mathematics?
"What is the purpose of Mathematics?" wondered generations of students desperately fixing the blackboard or their sheet. And we must admit that in our daily life, very few of us use them. How to attract children to the science often regarded as too abstract? What are today's high-level...
What seafood for tomorrow ?
The demand and market for what is commonly known as seafood are in a state of permanent expansion. We simply need to take a look at the freezers of fish that have doubled in size in our supermarkets over the last few years to realize that alongside the frozen and breaded items, numerous...
When a man asks to die
Victim of a locked-in syndrom, Michel S. has been living for 3 years in an institution. He is totally paralysed, he needs machines to eat and breathe. During the last months, he made a decision and asked to die, as the law allows him to… But the doctors refuse. The film follows the medical...
When the Egyptians sailed on the red sea
Cheryl Ward, American archaeologist and world specialist in ancient navigation, is coordinating the design and construction of a replica Egyptian ship from the time of the New Kingdom. Details for building the ship come from a bas-relief from the temple of Deir el-Bahri in Luxor. This low relief...
White planet
The Arctic is a unique world, shaped by ice and wind. A vast frozen ocean lying on top of the world, surrounded by dry land... A world itself, inhabited by unique fauna that has adapted to extreme conditions. Large reserves of fresh water for the world and also a regulator for the climate of the...
Who ate the cosmic soup?
The true history of the universe, the world and men: how? Why? Where are we going? The first film gastrophysique completely edible! And hop, all in less than 13 minutes.