catalogue
Death of the Megabeasts
Long after the extinction of the dinosaurs, other extraordinary species of giant beasts roamed the earth- they were the megafauna. In Australia some of the most bizarre to roam the earth existed including a huge kangaroo and the earth’s biggest flightless bird. For hundreds of thousands of years...
Decrypting images of science: air mouvements
Boosted by new computing and visualization, scientific images, acquired from the volume and movement, the atomic scale to cosmic dimensions.
Decrypting images of science: Brain
Boosted by new computing and visualization, scientific images, acquired from the volume and movement, the atomic scale to cosmic dimensions.
Decrypting images of science: Nebulae
Boosted by new computing and visualization, scientific images, acquired from the volume and movement, the atomic scale to cosmic dimensions.
Decrypting images of science: Titan
Boosted by new computing and visualization, scientific images, acquired from the volume and movement, the atomic scale to cosmic dimensions.
Depleted Uranium, a very presentable killer
Many countries possess weapons based on depleted uranium. Experimentation has been rife, and the consequences for civilians and the military alike have been dramatic. This film compares and contrasts the arguments of those who defend and attack a technology that is highly toxic.
Des enfants faits main
More and more in our time, human beings can manipulate their own nature. Are we ready to accept the possibility that we can indefinitely manipulate the basic constitution of human nature?
Direction of sliding (The)
In sports, going faster, having more fun, discovering new sensations, that is the goal of practitioners, manufacturers and even scientists. Together, they slalom between difficulties, innovate, solve problems.
Dive with cachalots
Few animals caught as much mythical attention as the sperm whale. Yet astoundingly little is known about these creatures with the largest brain, as they spend 60% of their life deeper than 500 meters. No human diver could follow so far their hunt within crushing pressures at depth. No one has...
DNA : decrypting a human journey
Since the advent of the human race, we have passed on our genetic code from generation to generation. And time has shown that man is actually one of the most homogeneous mammalian species to exist... as evidenced by a DNA analysis of two random human beings coming from different sides of the planet...
DNA Dreams
The film follows Zhao Bowen, high school drop-out and leader of the Cognitive Genomics Group, who uses some of the most powerful computers in the world to analyze the DNA of 2,000 highly gifted children. His goal: to find the genetic basis of intelligence. At BGI’s cloning lab, his colleague...
Does my brain have sex?
Why do men and women behave so differently sometimes? Is it a matter of biology: do the intellectual capacities of men differ from that of women? Masculine, feminine, the question is never neutral. From biological research to the latest advances in the human sciences, the director turns...
Don't trifle with aerosols
Once upon a time, there was a town called Aeropolis, which housed not only human beings, but also aerosols. What is it? A tiny grain or a droplet surrounded by gas, which lives in the atmosphere. Those aerosols are called atmospheric particles. In the course of this 6 min short movie, shot in stop...
Dr Virus and Mr. Hyde
Viruses, perceived as a threat to humanity, have, however, revealed some incredible properties. Having infected our DNA thousands years ago, retroviruses have integrated our genetic heritage. Today, viruses are used in gene therapy as carriers of drugs to cure diseases of genetic origin. But...
Dr. Tatiana, sex advice to the Creation
Parody of talk shows and reality TV, Dr. Tatiana opens the doors of his office to all species from sponge to hippocampus, all animals, played by actors, singers and dancers, flamboyant, exposing her their sexual problems... The film is full of interviews as serious as cheering with...
Dreamlife of rats (The)
This film shows the experiments made on rats in the States before exploring the human brain...
E = MC2
Docudrama based on the bestseller by David Bodanis, this film tells the incredible story of five prominent scientists who have provided over 250 years, the critical parts of a gigantic jigsaw puzzle was finally solved by the sixth of them Albert Einstein. E = MC2 reveals their difficulties, both...
Earth: the climate wars -The Battle begins
This film tells the greatest detective story in modern scientific history – how we came to understand the threat posed by human induced climate change. Forty years ago many scientists were worried that a new ice age beckoned. Yet within a decade they were warning about the dangers of...
Ebola, is not laughing matter
Ebola lies in wait in the heart of the African equatorial jungle, spreading out now and then to spark horrifying epidemics. There is no vaccine to prevent it, nor disease specific treatment. Scientists' biggest fear is that the virus will one day strike a large urban center, where it would spread...
Ecuador: insect paradise
The entomologists Sally Love and Terry Ewin penetrate the heart of virgin Ecuadorian forests hunting new live specimens for zoos. Get ready to catch some bugs!
Einstein: 1905, light-year
In 1892, Lord Kelvin said to an audience of scientists: "physics is definitely up with its fundamental concepts..." Fifteen years later, a stranger in Berne would blow these concepts: Albert Einstein. The narrative form with scenes fictionnées spreads during the fifteen years preceding 1905. It...
El color que cayó del cielo
This film will be screened in subtitled original version In Argentina, a rain of iron meteorites fallen on chaqueñas localities of Campo de Cielo and Meson de Fierro are subject to various appropriations: ancestral indigenous myths, mysterious archaeological, scientific interpretations,...
Electric Mind
Do we exist beyond the electric interactions of brain tissues? Our love, body movement, memory, depression, or religious beliefs, all are expressed electrically in our brain. This film follows people suffering from brain disorders, who are undergoing groundbreaking medical treatments involving...
Elektro Moskva
This film will be screened with French subtitles. Lo-fi sound, tonal imperfection: Sensation. Electro Moskva is an essay-like narrative about Soviet and pot-Soviet "electronic history" – from the Theremin and the synthesizer to the bugging devices of the KGP.
Elementary Particles
Personalities of the scientific world as the geneticist Albert Jacquard, physicist Etienne Klein, astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet, Minister Claudie Haigneré and members of the movement "Sauvons la recherche" ("Save Research"), young researchers or PhD students, offer us to think about problems...
Empire of scents (the)
This unique film embarks on a kaleidoscopic portrait of what is the sense of smell, exploring the rarest of saffrons, exotic perfumes, follows Italian truffle hunters as they explain the aphrodisiac powers of the praised mushroom. Astronaut Chris Hadfield describes the smell of space, food molecule...
En attendant les éléphants
On location for Luc Jacquet’s latest film ‘Il était une forêt’ [‘Once upon a forest’], Jérôme Bouvier, a wild-life director travels across the tropical forests of Peru and Gabon to film the curious behaviour of the forest elephants.
Enchanted Forest (The)
In Auvergne in the heart of France lies a long forgotten forest, la forêt de la Comté, legacy of Reine Margot who dedicated the nearby castle to one of her lovers. This forest is one of the first forests in Europe to be part of the international scientific programme IBISCA dedicated to the study...
Encounter
It all started with an unlikely encounter on the high seas. Two friends that nothing predestined to the study of cetaceans are in a conveying sailboat, and discover another universe, that has nothing to envy as that of a science fiction novel. Faced with ten giants of the seas surrounding...
End of Time (The)
Working at the limits of what can easily be expressed, filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again turns his camera to filming the unfilmmable. From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to lava...
Endocrination
A countdown has begun in Brussels. Europe is considering a ban on endocrine disruptors, ubiquitous chemicals that hijack children's hormonal systems and impair their health. But the potential regulation is a threat for a vast array of economic interests. The future generations mandate an astute...
Energized
This film will be screened with French subtitles. Nuclear disasters, wars over oil and gas, climate change and ever-increasing energy consumption: We have reached an important crossroads. To keep on going like this is not an option. But how can we meet our energy needs without destroying our own...
Energy from the Sea
Renewable energies have got the wind in their sails! In addition to biomass, wind, photovoltaics and geothermics, France is looking to diversify its energy package further by developing marine energies, as France has the second largest maritime potential in the world.
Engineering the Human Body: the Advance of Regenerative Medicine
Stem cells can transform into cells for muscles, organs, and other body parts, therefore they're producing medical marvels. So huge is the promise of regenerative medicine using stem cells that there's a growing demand for stem-cell banks, where people have their own stem cells frozen in case of...
Enjoy your hearing
An overview of the richness of the sound world of the animal world...
Entangled
This film will be screened in subtitled original version The film intertwines four interviews collected in Cali. A tailor, a puppeteer, a parapsychologist and a physicist narrate certain episodes supposedly occurred in the city: the disappearance of a cow; a form of possession caused by a puppet;...
Esperanto, the children of water
This screening focuses on the way two children from different horizons view the world around them, and more precisely its original source, Water. 6 friends decide to meet 10-year-old children from different countries with a view to raising their awareness of the ecology of Water. Two episodes...
Etienne Klein Libido Sciendi
This film paints the portrait of Etienne Klein through his love of mountains and physicists of the quantum revolution, the intellectual community that surrounds him and his passion for teaching and writing.
Evolution, pieces of the puzzle
What is it that makes a cat recognizable as a cat, rather than, say, a penguin? Every single living organism is in fact the result of a long evolutionary history, during which the traits that characterize its current appearance gradually emerged. Each one is thus the outcome of a grand evolutionary...
Expedition into the abyss
Expedition into the abyss is a scientific adventure which takes us to California on board a research boat equipped with the latest technology, the Western Flyer, to discover the mysterious destiny awaiting whale corpses 2,000 meters underwater. The expedition leader, Craig Smith, a researcher at...
Expedition to the end of the world
This film will be screened in their original version with French subtitles. A grand, adventurous journey to the last uncharted areas of the globe. Yet no matter how far we go, and how hard we try to find the answer, the ultimate meeting is with ourselves and our own transience.
Exploring the Living Cell
The cell is the smallest living creature. Free like the multitudes of bacteria, algae, infusoria, or assembled to form plants and animals, it is the source of all life on earth. And despite their diversity, the cells are made of the same materials, use the same genes, choose the same solutions to...
Fabric of the Cosmos (The) - What is space ?
Space separates us from each other, one galaxy from the next, and atoms from each other. It is everywhere in the universe. But to most of us, space is nothing, an empty void. Well, it turns out space is not what it seems. Brian Greene reveals space as a dynamic fabric that can stretch, twist, warp,...
Far Side of the Universe (The)
This is an amazing fact : according to our current models, the total mass of the matter (stars, galaxies…) accounts for only 4% of the Universe. An invisible and unknown matter would massively fill our cosmos. And no tool ever detected it… For the first time, a film invites us to discover...
Fermat's last theorem
The famous conjecture called great theorem (or last theorem) Fermat states that if n is greater than 2, there are no integers x, y and z nonzero for which xn + yn = zn. Andrew Wiles spent seven years of his life on this equation. A great movie on a mathematical subject.
Fil de la vie (Le)
Belgium has decriminalised medical euthanasia, Switzerland authorises assisted suicide and France is developing palliative care practices. Choosing one’s death… This film raises essential questions regarding a thorny issue that raises many ethical concerns.
First Astronauts (The)
Which test pilot would freefall from atmospheric heights today? In the late fifties, a small group of american pilotes and military doctors sketch an strange project: to fasten a basket (with its passenger) to a gigantic balloon filled with helium, and let it float up above the atmosphere to...
Fish's Finished - Reaching the Crossroads for our Oceans
The oceans still hold an unimaginable richness of life. But men regard upon that mainly as an inexhaustible source of seafood. Although an ever increasing num-ber of stocks are collapsing, 90 million tons of fish are taken from the sea every year. Going along with researchers, fishermen,...
Focus on infinity
This film will be screened with French subtitles. Focus On Infinity is a cinematic journey to the places, people and machines that are involved in exploring the origin of our cosmos and existence. It is a very personal and intuitive investigation into the roots and boundaries of our imagination...
Football, collective intelligence
Watching a game differently by studying the collective strategies of a team.