catalogue
Life force - Madagascar
Madagascar is an island like no other. Lying 400 kilometres off the coast of Africa, it’s often referred to as the “seventh continent”. Every corner of Madagascar is inhabited by lemurs – a unique primate found nowhere else on the planet. Foraging in the dark of night, the gremlin-like...
Life in Hell - Survivors of Darkness
In these environments, micro-organisms rule. Certain animals have strange adaptations such as skin that is totally white or even transparent. Others are blind. Scientists are studying how these species manage to survive with so little oxygen, food and light in the most inhospitable caves on the...
Life on Us
There are still unexplored planets in our Solar System - strange worlds of bizarre creatures locked in a fight for survival. These unknown worlds are you and me. Each one of us is a walking ecosystem teeming with a wide variety of life forms in their trillions. Now using new camera technology...
Light Bulb Conspiracy (The)
Does the ever-lasting light bulb really exist? How can a computer chip ‘kill’ a product? Why are millions of computers shipped round the world to be dumped rather than repaired? How did two artists from New York start a popular revolt on the internet which resulted in the life span of millions...
Lightning Reloaded!
Spiral clouds of steel blue and ink black, miles-long bolts of lightning, which for a moment appear to cast a spider's web across the sky. Lightning is beautiful, frightening and much more than heavy weather: recent research data indicate that heavy storms and lightning in Africa are generating the...
Lights Out!
Our planet is lit up 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We're addicted to light and we just can’t get enough of it. But like anything else that's addictive, could too much be a bad thing? Lights Out! ventures into the darker side of light to search for answers.
Linguists (The)
David and Greg are "The Linguists": scientists racing to document languages on the verge of extinction. In Siberia, India, and Bolivia, the linguists’ resolve is tested by the very forces stifling languages: institutionalized racism and violent economic unrest. David and Greg must overcome...
Lithium Revolution (The)
A high-stakes power play with global repercussions. In a time of global resource shortage and increasing energy prices, it is lithium that is on the way to becoming „the“ natural resource of the 21st century. Is lithium an answer to the imminent energy crisis and key to the future?
Living in weightlessness
It is difficult to conduct experiments in space, but it exists on Earth, a way to experience weightlessness: an Airbus, which falls freely toward the ground at a speed compensating for the effects of the force of gravity. Each year, the European Space Agency is organizing a campaign of so-called...
Living with robots
Robots are everywhere. They build our cars, entertain our kids and clean our floors. And as they continue to creep into our lives with ever-greater capabilities and intelligence, they will fundamentally rewrite our relationship with machines. “Living with Robots” takes us to the world’s...
Love and Engineering
This film will be screened with French subtitles. Digital computers geeks looking for analogue, real love... Atanas, a bulgarian computer engineer living in Finland claims to have hacked love, but can he help lonely (and shy...) engineers find real love and real happiness? Atanas is trying to...
Love Hate and Everything In Between
Man’s capacity for kindness and compassion is overshadowed only by his ability to be as cruel and destructive. Can empathy resolve issues of aggression and subjugation, where wars, politics and economic sanctions have failed? "Love Hate and Everything in Between" looks into the world of...
Lucie tells the history of science: the media
Lucie the firefly, cute animation character, leads children to meet the great inventors and discoverers who have advanced science decisively. From smoke signals of Indian-Americans to email, man has always tried to share information with the others.
Lucie tells the history of science: water and wind
Lucie the firefly, likeable character animation, leads children to meet the great inventors and discoverers who have advanced science decisively. How did man tame these elements over the centuries and why these two energies it became necessary.
Magic of motion (The)
Scientists are now seeking to observe the movement of animals in the water, on land or in the air, to implement mechanisms to their machines, thereby maximizing the energy.
Man of the Glaciers
How did Claude Lorius study the "memories of the ice"? The effects of climate change will have a profound impact on the life of our planet and constitutes in the long run a threat to the survival of the human race. The name of one man in particular is linked to this discovery, that of Claude...
Man repaired
In February 2013, the American Drug Administration approved the placing on the market of the first bionic eye, already transplanted on a sixtyish of blind persons in the world. In December of that same year, an autonomous artificial heart was implanted in the chest of a patient suffering from...
Mapping the Future
Also in Student Competition This film will be screened in original version with french subtitles. Predicting the future - is this possible? Yes, say computer experts. Already, Google can the culmination of a flu epidemic predict up to nine weeks in advance, only by the analysis of user...
Marie Curie, a woman on the front
Also in Student Competition When World War 1 broke out, Marie Curie was an eminent scientist, twice awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics & Chemistry. She still mourned her husband Pierre Curie, tragically killed in an accident several years before. She continued her Radium research and to teach at...
Marie Curie, beyond the Myth
From her birth in Varsaw until she entered the Pantheon, the works and life of Marie Curie are like a myth. While she has been honored in the entire world and embodies a model of excellence, her story and her life remain unknown. In order to celebrate this amazing woman of science, and on...
Mars, the new frontier
Planet Mars is about to be colonized. It is only a matter of time. After all, our robots are already there, looking around and paving the way. So when will we see humans there ? Or who knows, maybe the first encounter with an extraterrestrial form of life ? The scientific community is unanimous : ...
Mastodons, the riddle of the Ice Age titans
February 2011. Workers on the site of a water treatment plant in the outskirts of Santiago uncover a complete mastodon skull. A first in Chile! On site, the Chilean archaeologist Rafael Labarca, who heads the excavation site, quickly takes awareness of the importance of this discovery. "This is a...
Men in Danger
Sperm production in humans has suffered a spectacular drop (by 50% in 50 years), there has been a dramatic rise in the number of testicular cancers as well as in the number of congenital malformations in male reproductive organs… For Niels Skakkebaek, Danish doctor and researcher, "the male...
Mermaids' tears: oceans of plastic (The)
Oceans are rapidly becoming the world's rubbish dump. Every kilometer of ocean now contains an average of 74,000 pieces of plastic. A plastic soup of waste, killing hundreds of thousands of animals every year and leaching chemicals slowly up the food chain. In the Netherlands, scientists...
Mini Darwin on Galápagos: Evolution in the words of children
During an expedition on the Galápagos islands, seven children follow Charles Darwin’s tracks to repeat his observations and experiments in a playful and didactic way and discover the evolution of the species through natural selection. By observing the geology of the volcanic archipelago, the...
Missing: The Incredible Journey of M. de La Perouse
In 1785, Captain Lapérouse leaves with 200 men for the most ambitious scientific expedition ever undertaken, three years later, they disappear in the Pacific. In 2003, an expedition of French researchers passionate attempts to trace these scholars.
Money & Speed: Inside the blackbox
Film screened in French at the festival On the 6th of May 2010, the American stock markets plunged by almost 10% in only 20 minutes. By reconstructing this mysterious “flash crash”, Money and Speed uncovers a world of computer driven financial markets in which profit or loss are determined...
Monkey Tales
”Monkey tales” recounts how a small island in the Caribbean, of Puerto Rico, has become the most important scientific site in the world to discover the secret life of monkeys – leading to a better understanding of ourselves. Since the creation of Cayo’s colony in 1938 by American...
Monks in laboratories
Buddhists have been stydiing the mind, without any tool, for 2,500 years. They have developed techniques of meditation to sustain attention and transform the emotions. Scientists are now facing issues as ancient as those pratices, ignored for a long time. What are emotions? What is mind?
Mont Saint-Michel, a nutritive bay
The bay of Mont Saint-Michel is home to life in its greatest diversity, but here the man threatens biodiversity.
MOON
Since the dawn of time, the Moon plays a fundamental role in biological life: it acts like the pendulum of the terrestrial clock, dictating its rhythm to everything alive. As a universal symbol and a source of fascination, the Moon is present in every civilisation, through myths, legends and...
Moon: the great impact
September 2007, the Japanese space agency put in orbit, Kaguya, named after the Japanese goddess of the moon. This satellite is a marvel of technology with sophisticated analytical instruments and an HD camera that will shoot the moon with incredible accuracy. For one year, 100 kilometers above the...
More than honey
Over the past 15 years, numerous colonies of bees have been decimated throughout the world, but the causes of this disaster remain unknown. Depending on the world region, 50% to 90% of all local bees have disappeared, and this epidemic is still spreading from beehive to beehive – all over the...
Mount St. Helens
Landscapes tell stories, if we know how to listen, and that's what scientists have been doing at Mount St. Helens ever since the catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980 - listening, watching, and learning. And what they learned was radically different from what they had expected. In 1980 it seemed...
Mr CO2
It’s invisible but quantifiable, more than 2,500 scientists throughout the world are analyzing the consequences of its intrusive existence and thousands are working on solutions to catch it, to reduce it or to suppress it at the source. By denouncing the role carbon dioxide is playing in global...
Museum of Natural History: The Exploration Continues!
With 7,000 animals on exhibit, The Great Gallery of Evolution is a window into nature’s diversity. But behind this magnificent « showroom » hides a world unknown, a world containing one of the largest collections of specimen on earth… numbering nearly 80 million. Even lesser known is the...
Music Instinct: Science & Song (The)
The power of music: The Music Instinct: Science and Song provides a ground-breaking exploration into how and why the human organism--and the whole ebb and flow of the cosmos--is moved by the undeniable effect of music. This follows visionary researchers and accomplished musicians to the crossroads...
Mussels in Love
MUSSELS IN LOVE is a feature-length documentary that reveals the life of the Zeeland mussel in an intimate, humorous way, with playful music and fascinating close-ups that turn the shell-fish into abstract art. We get to observe its complete life cycle: the mussel that loves, the mussel that holds...
My friend the grass-snake
Taming your fears, learn about animals only different but not so bad, a first step towards respect. How does a snake move? Why does it pull its tongue? Does it really have cool blood?
Mysteries of Clipperton (The)
A ring of coral lost in the Pacific. The most isolated atoll on earth. Clipperton, tiny French territory off the coast of Mexico, remains a scientific mystery. How did life manage to take root here? Which species have developed ? Doctor Jean-Louis Etienne fulfils a lifelong dream by organizing a...
Mysteries of Kyys, the chamane (The)
In 2006, Eric Crubezy, anthropologist and forensic scientific discovered an ancient tomb with exceptional remains: one of the most well-preserved tomb ever discovered in Siberia. A woman was lying in a wooden casket surrounding by offerings, and that woman was a shaman... Her body was enveloped in...
Mysteries of the Canopy (The)
The treetop raft, a huge inflatable device for exploring and studying the canopy, heads to the island of Madagascar for an exciting expedition. Fiftysome researchers gather together to carry out an indepth study of the flora and fauna of this exceptional region. The scientists initiate us into the...
Mystery of Atlit Yam, 10 000 years under the sea (The)
A true voyage back in time, this documentary chronicles the discovery of the oldest known submerged city. On over 40 000 square meters, under 12 meter of sea water lie the ruins of the most ancient neolithc city ever found. Some of its most striking artefacts include a stone-lined well, an erected...
Naïca, the crystal cave
In the depths of a silver mine in Naica, Mexico, one of nature’s greatest wonders was discovered only a few years ago: an immense cave containing a forest of gigantic crystals, the largest in the world. Yet the cave is as beautiful as it is deadly. Its atmosphere is alike boiling water, making...
Nano revolution: more than human?
By mastering the construction of devices on the scale of atoms and molecules, nanotechnologies promise to revolutionize many areas of our lives. In medicine, after only fifteen years of research, the first “nano” products are making their appearance. Some are already commercialized, while...
Nanoworld or Abyss
Do you know what is a carbon nanotube? No? So don’t hesitate and follow the young curious citizen who leads this film as an inquest in order to discover and understand the invisible world of the nanotcchnologies and sciences. Nanosciences and technologies are touching a whole of...
Nature Tech (3)
When technology is inspired by the genius of nature, we talk about bionic science. In this film scientists try to create artificial leaves capable of producing hydrogen from solar energy.
Naturopolis New York, The green revolution
NEW YORK, THE GREEN REVOLUTION takes you on a trip to New York, with a specific goal in mind: discover nature in the city, find the “wilderness”, understand how nature is coming back and why, brought by man, it can sometimes change the face of the city, not just today but over the next 50...
Naturopolis Rio : la course vers la ville verte
Rio de Janeiro is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. A green city with its bay, iconic beaches, mountains and large urban forests…but if you go beyond the picture postcard idyll, Rio is suffering from pollution, landslides, poor sewage systems, dilapidated buildings and filthy...
Negotiation (The) Who wants to save climate ?
In 2011, Paris school of Economics staged a reenactement of the 2009 climate conference in Copenhagen. Students played negociators. Over 200 people took part of this experience.