catalogue
Football, collective intelligence
Watching a game differently by studying the collective strategies of a team.
For a Few Grains of Gold
Circling a forest, we encounter a dry riverbed. In this western region of France, farmers grow corn, a produce remarkably thirsty for water. During summer months, such irrigation methods consume 80 % of the available water. The film fluidly explores the conflict between this profligate use of a...
Forensic science
Fred and Jamy reveal scientific techniques used by the police in its investigations.
Forest fans
The adventures of a leaf insect in the forest of Sumatra.
Four Wings and a prayer
Four Wings and a Prayer is a visually rich and exciting new documentary about one of the world's most beautiful and mysterious creatures: the Monarch butterfly. Nowhere in nature is there a more powerful mix of scientific marvel, awesome beauty, and epic struggle for survival. This documentary,...
Fragonard, revolutionary anatomy
Surgical genius, Honoré Fragonard invented a strange technique to preserve corpses. He made anatomical preparations – animal and… human – called écorchés. These were then staged with a genuine artistic will. To this day, a real "Fragonard mystery" remains: by what means and methods did...
Françoise Héritier
François Héritier is Emeritus Professor at the Collège de France, head of the chair of Comparative Studies of African Societies. After studying history geography, and ethnology at La Sorbonne, she went on a one-year mission (in 1957-1958) to Upper-Volta, studying the social aspects of local...
Françoise Héritier, Thinking Different
Chairing the department of comparative studies in african societies at the Collège de France, Françoise Héritier has devoted the essential of her researches as an ethnologist-anthropologist in studying the causes of the male domination on the female. In the train going to Brittany, she...
Fred and Jamy, let's go to the jungle!
Fred and Jamy go to explore the Congo Basin forest. They make us discover its extraordinary biodiversity and its emblematic animals, elephants and gorillas.
From Big Bang to life
The heroes of this documentary space odyssey are true adventurers of astronomical research, remarkable people who have taken on the greatest enigmas in the cosmos and succeeded in projecting human genius to the very edges of the universe. And these astronomers, cosmologists, astrophysicists,...
From kiss to baby
How far can we go back in the observation of the birth of life? At what level of detail of science and modern technologies canwe access? It starts with hormone chemical messages (testosterone, dopamine, endorphins ...) and nervous stimuli.
Fukushima : particles and people
In Japan, in the region of Fukushima, citizens and scientists are working together to try to understand the invisible contamination that threatens their lives and haunts their minds. What is a contaminated environment? What can we eat? Where can we live? Will our children be able to go back? What...
Future by Starck
Since the birth of the solar system four and a half billion years ago, a constant stream of all manner of changes has taken place. We are, however only half way through our history, as the implosion of the sun has been estimated in four billion years’ time. So what does the future...
Future of mobility (The)
Suspension railways, flying cars, electric planes, evacuated tube transport….Engineers and designers are working on safer, faster and more energy-saving projects of revolutionary transportation means, which could deeply change our way of travelling in the near future.
Galileo or the love of God
Florence, 1633. Galileo, Florentine scholar, discovered through a tool of his invention, the telescope, a solar system in total contradiction with the precepts of the Bible and defended by the Church. Nicolas Copernicus, Polish monk and Giordano Bruno, Italian religious, had already paid with...
GAY OR STRAIGHT, IS IT A CHOICE?
With this documentary Gay or Straight, is it a choice?, Thierry Berrod offers the 4th installment of his series on sexuality. After the passages leading from seduction to birth (Inner Adventure), after the evolution of juvenile love into adolescent desire (The Outer Adventure – From Baby To...
Genetic Me
Also in Student Competition This film will be screened with French subtitles. Genetic Me is a humorous, ”sexy” and very human gateway into the rising science of who we are. Using wit and authenticity, the film connects a deeply personal tale with frontier genetic research and provides new...
Getting around in 2040
2009: the average French citizen lives in the suburbs and drives about 30 km per day. He takes the fast train once a month and a plane once every two years. In all, he covers a daily average of 45 km. 1960: his grandfather, a farmer, lived and worked his entire life on the farm. Twice...
Getting hot
Warm front is the educational documentary short film that accompanies the Infra Blues. In explaining the thermal radiation, it lifts the veil on some of the secrets of modern thermal imaging helped turn Infra Blues by the infrared camera of high technology made available by the manufacturer...
Giant sea serpent : meet the myth
The Giant Oarfish, the largest bony fish in the world, was known only by rare examples that died by stranding, as well as one sole fossil. Its extraordinary dimensions, as long as 15 meters, and shape in the form of a silver ribbon, inspired the myth of the sea serpent. For the past two years,...
Global Sushi: dead oceans ahead
In less than 15 years, a tiny ball of rice topped with a slice of raw fish has conquered the world. Without any big to-do or advertising blitz. Sushi is a traditional Japanese dish that has become the symbol of “world food". An alternative to the hamburger. A light Big Mac rich in Omega 3s, much...
Globalization and health, Patients in North, guinea-pigs in South ?
The North has established extremel strict principles and regulations in the field of human medical experimentation. "Enlightened consent" is demanded of patients recruited uniquely on a volunteer basis. But do these principles apply in the South, where ethical commissions are often to some degree...
Globalization and Health, The health-care drain
The migration of inhabitants of southern hemisphere countries (commonly called "poor countries") towards the North ("rich countries") deprives these nations of their doctors and nurses. This one-way transfusion can be seen, for example, in movements from Malawi to South Africa and then on to...
Going Green
The triple crisis (climate, energy and finance) invites governments to seriously consider the green economy as the future of sustainable development.
Gorillas of the Kongo - Chain saws to the Rescue
Africa is seen as a continent of crises and catastrophes. The film shows that in the Congo basin a change is taking place. The rainforests in the north are the habitat of the rare lowland gorillas. The production of tropical timber is an important income source and one of the largest employers....
Grammar of Happiness (The)
Daniel Everett’s goal was to bring Jesus to the Amazonian Pirahã tribe. Instead, the Christian missionary found a people so content in their world that they converted him; and a language so unique, he believes it undermines our most fundamental ideas about human communication.
Grand Masters of the Chauvet Cave (The)
Also in Student Competition The creation of an important museum devoted to the reproduction of the works allows a close-up on the paintings, the drawings and the engravings. The film enable us to understand their incredible techniques and feel their intact emotional power.The paintings and...
Grave 33, a Egyptian mistery
In the valley of the deaths, in Egypt, Grave 33 is the vastest of the entire region. It is not nevertheless the grave of king. Why did Padiaménopée librarian of a Pharaoh of 26th dynasty choose a grave so impressive? To what were of use hundreds of meters of frescoes covered with hieroglyphs? 130...
Great Green Wall (The)
In 2004, eleven african countries gathered to handle a major ecologic challange: the desertification of the Sahel. This is why the great green wall project has been created. The goal is to create a large wooded area across Africa, 7,000 km long and 15 km large. In 2008, Senegal has...
Great History of the brain (The)
Everyone wants to know more about this organ in charge of long sacred mystery. Experts propose to manage, improve, repair, or even feed it. Without wishing to pronounce the word, some scholars consider the brain as the substitute for the soul. The more materialistic see it the secret of being, the...
Great History of the gene (The)
By raising critical questions, social, ethical or political concern genetics and fascinates.
Greedy brain (The)
This film will be screened in original version with french subtitles. In science fiction films the minds of scientists are downloaded into computers and criminal brains are connected with the Internet. Interesting, but howdoes it work in real life......? Science journalist Rob van Hattum wondered...
Green
Her name is Green, she is alone in a world that doesn't belong to her. She is a female orangutan, victim of deforestation and resource exploitation. This film is an emotional journey with Green's final days. It is a visual ride presenting the treasures of rainforest biodiversity and the...
Green Chemistry: plants for replacing oil?
Oil is not only used for our transportation. It is also at the origin of many daily products, especially plastics and most motors oil and lubricants. However, in a few decades, there won’t be any oil, it’s now a certainty. Sabine and Jamy decide to go ans meet some chemists how developed...
Greenhouse world
By filming the teams of botanists and gardeners as they renovate Paris' Jardin des Plantes (Botanical Gardens), we freely explore in an unusual, happy way the vital links that unite our species to the world of plants.
Growing up in the savannah
Growing up in the Savannah is a tale full of humor and emotions on the school of life in the African wildlife. For the emblematic African wildlife, the long road to adulthood is paved with multiple obstacles. But the dangers vary considerably from one species to another as well as the solutions...
Gruissan, between tradition and urbanization
Gruissan, in the Aude department, sees his historic town forced to live with impressive modern buildings. How to integrate the environment in the economic development of Gruissan? How increasing population pressure may be a compromise between tourism and preservation of the identity of the site?...
Guyana, a coast under influence
Near the mouth of the Amazon River, Guyana receives a phenomenal amount of sediment that the currents of the Atlantic ocean back on his side. These movements shape and reshape constantly mudflats where mangrove is established, giving her particular mangrove Guyanese instability. Refuge for fish...
H1N1, our viruses have a future...
H2N2, H3N2, behind these abbreviations lie some poorly defined biological things we call viruses. In March 2009, one of them, H1N1, has been spreading rapidly across all continents. By relying on the real facts of the current propagation and evolution of this flu virus, this documentary takes a...
Ham, astrochimp n° 65
January 31st, 1961: a Mercury rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral. The astronaut on board is a three-year-old chimpanzee named Ham. The young chimp is shot into the stratosphere where he manages to resist both the high pressure and the strong temperature variations before splashing back down in...
Harvest
One, two, three, four, Bernard's old hands are counting wheat seeds. His whife Renée is writing: wheet's name, heignt, appearance... Their son Alain is testing, observing ang transforming it in floor. And this with the 150 wheat varietes planted in the Ronot's farm: wild wheats wich became...
Healing otherwise
Healing otherwise, that's what a new science proposes today. Facing the impotence of medical orthodoxy to relieve patients from specific pains, these alternative therapies growing from the evolution of knowledge related to cerebral functioning, have in common the fact that they rely on the most...
Healing Venoms
Since we have discovered the complexity of the toxins, and their action on the body, in particular on pain transmission, numerous international laboratories have set on a quest for a promising medicine, which could revolutionise pain treatments, but also treatments of illnesses such as Alzheimer...
Health Under Pressure
For the first time, this documentary describes the whole French system of health, without limiting itself to emergency units or to hospital. At the end of an 18 month-long inquiry, this film deciphers the tentacular mechanism of our system. Just like an octopus with numerous tentacles, the...
Hear and now
Why would one decide to leave deafness for a new sound world? After 65 years of silence, Paul and Sally Taylor decide to undergo cochlear implant surgery and explore a totally unfamiliar world – the realm of sound. In this deeply personal memoir, filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky documents her...
Henri Poincaré
Etienne, Cedric, and some others are in a house rented all specially for the occasion. Several days of work and reflection, away from everything together. It does not happen so often, and their excitement is visible. Etienne, Cedric and the others are mathematicians, physicists, philosophers ......
Hidden Face of fear (The)
In which part of the brain is fear hidden? Since September 11, 2001, New York has become the center of a new epidemic of fear and anxiety that has rapidly spread through the western world. The Hidden Face of fear recounts the studies of two of the world’s leading experts on fear and memory,...
High Adventure
Serie of 4 episodes Surviving Denali (1/4) The high one, Mount Mac Kinley in North America has the highest base-to-summit elevation of any mound on Earth, rising 18,000 feet from its base. Mount Kilimanjaro (2/4) This film will bring together a rift geologist, a zoologist and a local...
Holy smoke
A range of young, and not so young users talk about their experiences and the damaging consequences on their lives; and the psychological and physical disorders which led them to the psychiatric ward. The film took two years to complete. The first year was devoted to research and study in various...
Homo Delphinus
How close are dolphins to mankind? The dolphin is one of the world’s oldest mammals. Since antiquity, the dolphin has been a source of fascination for humans, by virtue of its behaviour and its intelligence. The dolphin’s amazing abilities have astounded more than a few scientists and a real...