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Big Bang Theatre
An audiovisual spectacle in the form of a video triptych, in which three scientists defend their points of view in a friendly debate. François Bouchet, Marc Lachièze-Rey and Hubert Reeves meet to debate a theory that has been largely accepted for several decades, but amuse themselves and the...
Body Language
In collaboration with Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol. Our body talks. Mastering body language gives a strategic edge to a wide range of professionals, from corporate executives, doctors, lawyers, to masters of martial arts, scientists, executives in insurance, financial institutions and law...
Borders of infinity: how Star Trek Changed the World
The adventures of Star Trek have fed the imagination of many scientists, who watched them when they were children. Mobile phones to computers, Star Trek has permeated our view of the world and reflected the aspirations and issues of society of the sixties then eighty...
Born HIV-positive, the life in front of one
This is the story of hundreds of young people born in France, during the darkest period of the AIDS epidemic, before the doctor could prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus. They were born with it, grew with it, and are surviving with it. With their viral load contained, most of them are...
Buffon, Nature's Thinker
Mathematician, botanist, naturalist, geologist, encyclopedist, industrialist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon was all this and much more. He left us a considerable heritage in every domain he tackled right up until his death at the age of 80. His "Natural History", a genuine scientific...
Building for the Future. How Climate Change is Impacting Architecture
French version of the film Sea levels are rising and storms are becoming increasingly powerful. Climate change has serious consequences. Hurricane Katrina cost USD 80 billion; Typhoon Haiyan killed more than 5,000 people – many in their homes. Is our architecture still fulfilling its actual...
C'est pas sorcier
Another episode of the magazine hosted by Fred and Jamy.
C'est pas sorcier - Tahiti's pearls : the oysters' secret
Fred and Jamy travel to Manihi Atoll in order to understand how pearl farms manage to extract magnificent mother-of-pearls spheres out of mollusks. From shell breeding to beautiful jewel crafting, they tell us of the whole history of the Tahitian pearls.
C'est pas sorcier / Carbon: the wizards are on balance
Scientist note that temperatures increase since the last century, due to greenhouse gases emissions. And carbon dioxide emission is the most important. If we found a high quantity of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, it’s because of human activities... Fred conducts the investigation. He...
Côa, the river with a thousand engravings
The discovery of thousands of engravings dating back to 25,000 B.C, which have laid exposed to the open air along the banks of the Portuguese River Coa, could revolutionise the way we imagine the lives and the purpose of art of our prehistoric ancestors. Rock art in caves may have been an...
CAPTURE (THE)
Pierre Bergounioux is one of the major writers of our time. If his work has a worldwide impact, it also has its privileged domains: history and literature, remembering and writing, childhood and the Corrèze. A voice, indeed, but also a body – gnarled but stirring, like one of...
Cathedrals unveiled (The)
This was one of the greatest achievements of the Middle Ages. Born in the heart of the kingdom of France, in the middle of the twelfth century, Gothic art has dominated Europe and initiated a revolution in architecture. Its best-known landmark, the cathedral, has transformed the landscape of...
Chanee et les singes chanteurs
This film is an in-depth exploration of the little-known world of Chanee who devotes her life to saving gibbons. Her organisation, Kalaweit, rescues gibbons threatened by poaching and animal trafficking and helps them readapt to life in the wild.
Changing Climates, Changing Times
Can fiction overcome the reality of global warming? Year 2075. Climate predictions made at the beginning of the 21st century have turned out to be dramatically true: global warming of the Earth's atmosphere now has serious consequences on the every day lives of our grandchildren. Julia, in...
Chasing Ice
'National Geographic' photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In 'Chasing Ice,' we follow Balog across the Arctic as he deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed for one...
Chemistry: A volatile History
From the untarnished lustre of gold to the dazzle of vivid, violent potassium, elements are the wonderful stuff of which the world around us is made. For centuries this world was unknown - dimly perceived, completely misunderstood. Our world and everything within it – from the enormous...
Chernobyl, a natural history?
On April 26th 1986, reactor n°4 at the Lenin power station in Chernobyl went out of control, leading to the consequences we all know: radioactive fallouts contaminating huge pieces of land, the creation of a 30-km-radius exclusion zone around the power station. In this now forbidden zone, the wild...
China's Ghost Army
Uncover the secrets of one of the world’s most ancient mysteries: China’s army of terracotta warriors, destined to be seen by no-one but the spirit of China’s First Emperor. Nothing like China’s terracotta warriors was ever created before them and nothing quite like it has been created...
Chronicles of unasual: meteorites
Since the creation of the sun, collisions have played a key role in the development of our solar system. Earth was bombarded by asteroids and comets devastating, sometimes modified ant the course of our evolution. Could it be that what has brought life, may one day again?
Chroniques de la douleur
When it becomes chronic, pain leads to ongoing suffering. The medical profession finds itself having to find alternative solutions adapted to each patient. This is the story of a therapy in which the relationship between patient and medical staff is essential.
Cities of Tomorrow: Vertical Farms
Very soon, big cities will have to address a considerable challenge : feeding 7 billion citizens. Everywhere, experts already try to limit the distance between production and consumption places. In order to thoroughly transform today’s metropolises, an environmental science professor...
Climat, pour quelques degrés de moins
This documentary, which want to be resolutely positive, is based on the reflections of Jeffrey Sachs, a brilliant American economist and a team of five scientists. They would like to demonstrate that a better world is still possible and that science is able to reduce CO2 emissions of two degrees....
Climate
If signs of climate change are still relatively discreet in France, they are indisputable and will go accelerating. Throughout the 21th century, France will have to adapt but will it preserve its identity? 19h - Roundtable After the film, a debate on climate change in France will be held in...
Climate change : the Solutions are Waiting
This film is an animation movie that explains the bad situation and suggests solutions to avoid the desaster.
Clipperton, an Island of Coral
The biggest colony of masked boobies in the world is to be found in the middle of the Pacific, on Clipperton atoll. It numbers almost 120 000 birds! A team of ornithologists is trying to evaluate the state of the Pacific’s waters by watching what these birds eat; the fish that they bring back...
Cloud Mystery (the)
Is greenhouse the only explanation for global warming? The Cloud Mystery is a scientific detective story. It tells how a Danish scientist, Henrik Svensmark, through pioneering experiments in Copenhagen, solved the puzzle of how supernova explosions in our Galaxy and variations in the Sun govern...
CO2: tomorrow I quit
A five-minute introduction in which we endeavour to describe the greenhouse effect, the limits to growth, the limits of the economics systems we live in, and the reasons why people resist change. The spotlight alternates between two viewpoints presented in what we hope is a balanced fashion, one...
Codebreaker
CODEBREAKER tells the remarkable and tragic story of one of the 20th century's most important people. Alan Turing set in motion the computer age and his World War II codebreaking helped turn the tide of the Second World War. Instead of receiving accolades, Turing faced terrible persecution. In...
Collision Zone: Asia
The fiery unpredictability of Indonesia’s volcanoes at one end, the massive Himalayas at the other and millions of years of tectonic tension in between. The collision zone of the old world is about to be the hub of the new. India, the Himalayas and the island arc of Indonesia - these lands...
Collisions
Matter represents a mere 5% of the energy in the universe. What’s the rest of it made of? What we learn from the LHC, the largest physics machine ever invented by man, could very well revolutionize the way we look at the world. Collisions hopes to engage the viewer in the final construction...
Coma and consciousness - end of the antagonism?
How can we estimate the possibility of physical recovery of a comatose patient? This documentary by Tilman Jens and Davina Weitowitz is an exploration of human consciousness to the frontiers of medecine, technology and philosophy.
Comment j'ai détesté les maths
Have you always hated maths? It could have been amusing had they not gained such an important place in today’s society : Apple, Google, Goldman Sachs, all these companies’ operations are based on algorithms and mathematical formulas. So how did maths become so unpopular even as they have come...
Conquest of the space
At the end of the Second World War, the Allies, committed in a systematic hunting to the scholars of the Third Reich, seize high-level scientists. From the 50s, during the cold war, the Soviet citizens and the Americans are engaged a steady and relentless competition the objective of which lives...
Consultation in utero
Thanks to the latest and most spectacular progress in genetic and fetal medecine, the little creature a few inches tall, wich use to grow, protected in its mother's womb, has now became an object of study, a patient. Now, you can see, examine, listen. But we can treat it only in a very few...
Corals deciphering climate
The film follows the most important coral scientific mission on Tahiti, Southern Pacific. The scientific are looking for new answers on global warming. The research and its results engage in a future of our planet and in survival of certain populations. The alarming state of some South pacific...
Cortex Academy
"I cheated on you!" Facing this shock statement, different parts of the brain try to resolve the crisis.
Cosmic Code Breakers: The Secrets of Prime Numbers
2, 3, 5, 7, 11… Behind the seemingly random sequence of prime numbers, mathematicians have long suspected a profound order. The key to solving this puzzle may be the Riemann Hypothesis. The Riemann Hypothesis is every math phobic's worst nightmare, yet it is one of the great unsolved problems of...
Cosmic Shore Episode 1 Sprites: Mystery Lights (The)
Between the Earth and Space there is something we have called the “Cosmic Shore” – a boundary way above Earth, which is the birthplace of auroras and shooting stars. We focus on “sprites,” mysterious lights that once only astronauts and pilots had ever seen. Even our weather is affected...
Craters of sand (The)
The exceptional field of meteorite impacts the Gilf Kebir, offers a team of researchers (mineralogist, geochemist, geophysicist, paleo-botanist and planetary) the opportunity to test the field of measuring devices that will be sent to the Mars in the near future.
Creeping Garden (The)
This film will be screened in subtitled original version The Creeping Garden is a multi award winning feature length creative documentary exploring the work of fringe scientists, mycologists and artists, and their relationship with the extraordinary plasmodial slime mould. The slime mould...
Crude
Where does ioil come from? When will it run out? Where is it driving us? This extraordinary documentary sweeps through the ages from the birth of oil deep in the dinosaur-inhabited past, to its ascendancy as the indispensable ingredient of modern life. Now, as we crest the peak of production,...
Cultivate the earth
Should we change everything in our way to cultivate the earth? Taking as its central theme the presentation of agricultural GMOs currently on the market – transgenic plants which tolerate herbicides and plants which produce their own insecticides – this film offers an abundance of very...
Curious by nature
Fifteen students from the Faculty of Paris Jussieu realize their dream of naturalist from Guyana to participate in the inventory of species that make up the Amana Nature Reserve, located 250 km from Cayenne.
Cyclones in the laboratory
In the Laboratory of geophysical and industrial flows of Grenoble (LEGI), researchers have at their disposal an instrument: the largest hub in the world (fourteen feet in diameter). This unique tool allows them to model experimentally the effect of the Coriolis Force on atmospheric and oceanic...
Darwin on the evolution trail
Curious by nature, the young Charles Darwin embarks on a voyage around the world as naturalist aboard the Beagle. At the time he did not knew that it was to be the beginning of a sensational scientific breakthrough. For five years he collects, observes and annotates everything he discovers in the...
Darwin's lost paradise
Charles Darwin is one of mankind's greatest thinkers. His extensive scientific research, which culminated in the publication of the theory of evolution in 1859, shook man's age old belief in being the chosen ones, the fruit of "divine creation" and proved that man had developed through a long...
Datacenter : the hidden pollution
Internet have changed our life for 10 years. Every trivial acts are digitized. From 1990 to 2003, our virtual world produced 5 millions GB of data. In 2011, it only took two days to produce the same quantity. In 2013, only 10 minutes. What energy feeds it ? What are the consequences ?
Dawson: orange code
On September 13, 2006, the announcement that a gunman began his carnage at Dawson, lead the Montreal hospital to a strong mobilization. Several victims have escaped death thanks to quick and professional action of the paramedics and the trauma team at the hospital. How modern medicine and a...
Deadly Depths
Real time bombs are ticking under the seas of the planet . More than one million tons of chemical weapons, inherited from two world wars, still threaten us today. From 1917 to 1970, the armies of the world’s greatest powers systematically dumped these highly toxic and explosive cocktails into...
Death is in the Field
"Once we uncover the whole truth about the dangers of pesticides, the uproar will be worse than that of contaminated blood. I refuse to keep quiet." This farmer is stricken with bone-marrow cancer at 47; a victim of the pesticides he handles every day. Like him, hundreds of farmers are affected....