catalogue

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

Why are women shorter than men ?

Women are smaller than men, or, depending on your viewpoint, men are bigger than women. That is a given. So why aren’t men and women the same size? We will investigate a scientific enigma and overturn some basic assumptions about the male and female bodies. The story taps into a rich seam of...

Why Do I Study Physics?

I decided to study Physics in college because, since childhood I have been enchanted by the idea of perfection. However, while seeking a rational world, irrationality shadows every step of my journey. Is this a pursuit destined to end in a dilemma?

Wild Blue Yonder (The)

Unknowingly, we have decades of visitors from space, a planet submerged in water: the Wild Blue Yonder. Their attempts to create a new community on earth have so far failed. One of these strange visitors - Brad Dourif - tells this incredible adventure. A tale of science fi ction of...

Windows of Life (The)

In the underwater world colours disappear quickly as we descend to deeper water.Most sea creatures have eyes… But what can they see? Fish, crustaceans, cephalopods… They all have very different eyes. But what do they see? Can they perceive colours? The eyes are a very important organ to all...

Wings of the sun (The)

On July 7, 2010, the solar airplane leaves the ground like a dancer in a deafening silence... A wild dream come true. If our world has become dependent on fossil fuels, man also has the ability to bring change, and to prove that there is an alternative to dark clouds. A few years ago, facing the...

Wonders of the Solar System:Dead or alive

Professor Brian Cox visits some of the most dramatic locations on Earth to explain how the laws of nature create astonishing natural wonders across the Solar System.The worlds that surround our planet are made of rock, but there the similarity ends. Some have a beating geological heart, others are...

World according to Christophe Colomb (The)

From 1492 to 1504, in twelve short years and four fantastic voyages, Christopher Columbus forever altered the image of the world. Through his maps and with the help of experts, we see just how this incredible transformation came about, laying down the foundations for the world as we know it...

World Without Bees (A)

Investigation of a global ecological disaster that could jeopardize the entiere humanity... Today, one third of our food is directly depending on the bee, the most important agricultural pollinator of our planet. However, the last years, millions of bees have been mysteriously disappearing. Why?...

X:enius

French version of the film What are the limits of space missions ? Will it be possible, one day, to go to Mars? X: enius examines issues that engineers and researchers must resolve before a trip to the Red Planet could become reality.

X:enius - Quels sont les enjeux de la médecine personalisée?

Personalised medicine promises made to measure diagnoses adapted to each patient’s needs. This has obviously sparked hope. But is this practice really justified? In Berlin, Dörthe Eickelberg and Pierre Girad investigate.

X:enius : Bionics

Bionics

Young Explorers in Africa

Léa is 10. She lives in the country and shares her spare time between her passion for nature and her love of animals. She's going to Congo on the trail of the western lowland gorillas, to stay with Rosette who lives in the heart of the primary forest. Rosette's father, the warden of the park,...

Zooville: the beaver

Zooville is a children’s nature series that explores the fascinating world of wildlife living in cities and suburbs. Each episode, the series host, Mark Krupa and his loyal assistants, go on an adventure to explore and discover amazing creatures living in their own communities. With the help of...