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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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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,...

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...

Homo futurus, the inside story

Recent discoveries been questioned by the classical theory of evolution our display rming that man is born of adaptation to its environment. There exists an internal pressure that pushes the man to always evolve in the same direction, over millions of years. Paradigm shift? The controversy rages...

Horizon: is seeing believing?

Is Seeing Believing? explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions – and reveals the tricks they play on our senses and why they fool us. The film shows how easy it is to trick our sense of taste by changing the colours of food and drink, explains how what we see can change what we...

Horses from prehistory

The resemblance between the representations of horses early cave paintings and the small Mongolian equine discovered in 1879 has led the scientific community that the time to consider the little horse as a survivor from prehistoric times. The fi lm survey on the prevalence of the horse in art from...

How Earth Made Us: Deep Earth

This film explores the relationship between man and the deep Earth. It’s an association which has had a profound influence on the pathway of humanity – and that’s because we’ve always chosen to build our homes along the edges of fault lines and plate boundaries - places which for thousands...

How Heavy is a Cloud?

Understanding the clouds, their shapes, colors, and composition, is to understand the weather. The film sheds light on the secrets of the water cycle and atmospheric phenomena: violent storms, floods, hail and snow. What we learn may even push aside generally accepted ideas... Predicting the...

How the Earth became Round

Everyone knows the Earth is round...but is it really? In men's mind it has been flat, square, layered or sitting atop animals. Young Jo discovers an unusual box in his grandfather's attic. To his surprise the box becomes bigger and starts to speak, awaking the curiosity of the child. Suddenly Jo...

How to feed the world?

Every day, year after year, tens of millions of men, women and children suffer from hunger. Two opposing worlds occupy the planet: the overfed and the underfed. Yet, feeding all of the planet's inhabitants is not just a pipedream. This film assesses the current situation and identifies key means of...

How to save the world?

What are the causes of mass extinctions of species? What is the price of nature? How to prevent the decline in diversity of environments?

How to stop a hurricane

Is it possible? There are two things you can say for sure about hurricanes. One, they are Nature’s most destructive force, and two, another big one will soon be on its way. With Katrina’s devastation fresh in the memory, and the likelihood of another storm like her on the horizon, what if...

How we got to now : Light

Steven explores the people who took us out of the dark and into the light. From the 18th-century shipping community that discovered a source of illumination by putting a kid inside a whale’s head, to the invention of the light bulb, plus a French scientist who accidentally discovered how to...

Hugo's brain

This docudrama tells the story of Hugo, an autistic piano virtuoso who struggles every day to adapt to neurotypicals’ world, that is to say “normal” people’s world. Through the history of this disability and strong testimony, the film tries to understand the mystery of autism.

Humanimal, the Animal Mind : wolf

For centuries, the animal world and the human world have been carefully kept separate. Humans once considered themselves to be at the summit of intelligence and sensitivity, denying "beasts" all possibility of intelligence and emotions. Yet, as researchers and scientists make one discovery after...

Hummingbirds - Jewelled Messengers

This is the story of how hummingbirds became the greatest aerial acrobats on earth. Plants ‘created’ hummingbirds as their messengers, carrying pollen from flower to flower. The film follows the evolution of the birds, as they are shaped by their role as ‘go-betweens’. Hummingbirds have...

Hunting the hidden dimension

What do clouds, stalks of broccoli, and the rhythm of your heart have in common? Fractals – the irregular, repeating shapes that are found almost everywhere in nature, but whose governing principles were considered beyond the limits of our mathematical understanding well into the 20th...