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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...

Hopes in sight

Elegant building of glass and steel, the Institute of Vision has been built on the site of one of the largest hospitals of Ophthalmology of the world: the Quinze-Vingts. In the spirit of its designer, Professor José Sahel, this proximity is to combine basic and clinical research in the same...

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...

Horses of equity

The horse possesses essential characteristics, which favor the self-confidence of the handicapped persons. He does not judge and nothing in its behaviour shows rejection or incomprehension. The interest of this animal is to work at the same level as the human being on the emotional plan. That is...

Hospitalisés sous contraintes

They are tens of thousands each year staying in psychiatric hospitals against their will. Because they can be a danger to themselves or others, the law has in fact foreseen that these patients could be hospitalized by force, at the request of a relative or a representative of the state. Mental...

Houat, living on an island

A quirky island that could be on a treasure map: this is the fantasy portrait of the island of Houat. But for the 300 permanent inhabitants of this tiny island, it is mostly a lifestyle choice. Yet, with a great fishing history, which is experiencing a structural crisis and a decline in...

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...

Hurricane of the Century

In December 1999, France was struck by an unprecedented meteorological phenomenon. This 90-minute documentary relates the hour-by-hour progression of the 'monster.' Archival footage, eye-witness interviews and computer-generated reenactments allow us to relive these unusual days which will remain...

Hydrogen, the energy of the future?

Fred and Jamy present the properties of hydrogen.

I Am in Space

The secret of manned space flight isn't kept by the military or the Departments of Defense - but by the Russian space psychologists. The space video diary of French astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy, NASA material that hasn't been presented before and the findings of the space psychologists reveal...

I Evolve

Technological progress today is allowing mankind to conceive a radically “improved” human being and, for the first time in human history, to model our own species according to our wishes. In laboratories, a new kind of individual, partially re-engineered, is not only in the process of being...

I walked on the Earth - New Caledonia

New Caledonia is one of the pearls of the Pacific − a place of enchantment, with paradisiac beaches and lagoon. Its extraordinary wealth of biodiversity also makes it a Mecca for scientists. Beneath the surface of its blue waters lies a coral reef that is home to 15,000 plant and animal...

I walked on the Earth in Zimbabwe

In Zimbabwe, French scientists study the complex relationship between the increasing number of elephants, other herbivores and their predators. The elephant is an endangered species all over the world, but here in Zimbabwe, it is far from being extinct. Rather the opposite! Man protects elephants...

Ice People

What attracts so many scientists in Antartica? Unique in the genre of exploration and adventure films, Ice People takes you on one of the earth’s most seductive journeys: Antarctica. Emmy-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion spent four months “on the ice” with modern-day polar explorers, to find...

Igor

Igor deviendra-t-il le plus grand savant fou de tous les temps ? A Malaria, pays plongé dans la pluie et l’obscurité, les Inventions Maléfiques assurent la prospérité, sous le règne autoritaire du roi Malbert. Les inventeurs de ces Créations Maléfiques sont les Savants Fous, classe...

Immortal

Astonishingly, science has uncovered the key to unlimited life, and a secret of endless youth. Deep in the DNA of a humble pond creature an Australian-born scientist co-discovered an "immortalising" enzyme, a chemical catalyst that can keep cells young, forever. In 2009 this discovery was...

Immortality

Why do we die? Immortality was not planned by Nature. It is neither useful to reproduction nor to the perennity of species, but it may not be impossible. With the new fields of research on the living — genomics, nanomedicine, neuroscience ­— and the exponential technological progress, the...

In search of the King's head

January 2010. A mummified head is found in an attic. But whose? Could it be King Henri IV's, assassinated in 1610? This documentary records the amazing adventure that led to the solution to that mystery. Working with internationally renowned historians and scientists, directors Stephane Gabet...

In the beginning was the mud

Water and mud are probably the most conducive fields for life to emerge. It is from micro-organisms that life can develop, as it began to take shape four billion years ago. To understand the mysteries, Daniel Guiral, aquatic ecology specialist, has installed a water laboratory on the coast of...

In the depths of the climate

A European scientific mission in Antarctica studying the circumpolar ocean current and its role on world climates.

In the field of stars

The discovery of the astronomical photography fascinated, from its advent in the middle of the XIXth century, scientists and artists. It was going to allow them to see, to record phenomena, which were invisible until then. Who says "invisible" says opened-way to the imagination. Certain astronomers...

In the footsteps of Jules Verne

Docudrama, this film puts into perspective the work of Jules Verne and the conquest of space.

In the Heart of Aids' Battle

10.06.1980, Los Angeles: a first case of AIDS is described at the UCLA hospital by doctor Michaël Gottlieb. 10.06.2008, Stockholm: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier receive the Nobel Prize in Medecine. Between those two dates, the research was accomplished in a strained...

In the mind of plants

Over the recent years, a small but growing group of researchers from Austria, Germany, Italy, UK, Japan, South Africa and the USA, has developed a new scientific field of research: the neurobiology of plants. Their discoveries question our perception of the limits between the animal and the...

In the shadow of the Moon

Between 1968 and 1972, 12 men have walked on the moon. They remain the only humans to have known this other world. This film brings together for the first and probably last time the astronauts of the Apollo mission who flew to the moon. They tell their own epics on NASA archive footage often...

India - the water keepers

Traversing through Northern India, through Gujarat all the way to the Bay of Bengal, Priscilla Telmon is on the search to discover and meet the men and women who fight to find more efficient ways to use water, a now limited resource. After her arrival in Suthri, in Gujarat, Priscilla spends...

Infra blues

Fiction and documentary made in the context of the World Year of Physics by a student group. Footage shot in the infra red means.

Inside Animal Minds : Bird Genius

This film will be screened with French subtitles. When it comes to intelligence, we humans are clearly the most gifted animals around. But what make us so special? Is it our ability to make and use tools? To solve complex problems? Or plan for the future? It might seem that way, but today,...

Interspecies transplant, the man and the creature

For a long time, the man dreams about the interspecies transplant: the transplant between two different species. Today, it becomes probable with the numerous experiences made on pigs and chimpanzees. The transplantation became a common operation in rich countries. However, there is much more...

Intimate Ennemies

The events that are about to be displayed before your eyes are the latest reports from a war that started several thousands years ago.

Intranet everywhere

How Intranet has changed human and managerial relationships within a big company like Schneider.

Investigations of the firefly: locomotion (The)

Lucie the firefly, cute animation character, conducts its survey with specialists and scientists. Why your eyes and ears allow you to walk? How do your muscles move your skeleton? When were you able to make your first move?

Investigations of the firefly: the colours

What are the three primary colours? With blue, red and yellow pigments, a decorator shows all the desired colors. Those of the rainbow appear when white light is deflected through the raindrops. The pink of the ibis and the flamingos is caused by carotenoids content in the shrimp. The color...

Investigations of the firefly: the five senses

Lucie the firefly, cute animation character, conducts its survey with specialists and scientists. What is the pupil? How can you recognize different tastes with your tongue? What is an olfactory receptor?

Invisible ennemy (The)

Thomas, 23, Raymond, 60, diabetic, wake up one morning, victims of eye disorders. After consultation, they are diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy and need emergency surgery. Bruno, 48, sees rainbows in the sky before his eyes. He developed glaucoma. Thomas, Raymond and Bruno have in common that...

Invisible nature - Colonising plants

Their biological particularities have enabled plants to conquer all natural environments of planet earth; from dry desert lands (cactus and acacia), ice cold (algae), marshes (carnivorous plants) to the concrete in the hearts of our cities (tree of heaven) and wastes (elder). To succeed this...

Invisible Nature - Power of plants

Many of our green friends have travelled to outer space, and returned. Researchers at NASA have proved that plants have the power to clean our air, our soil and our waste water. Some trees produce a bark that resists the flames of fire. An estimated 10 billion tons of wood is created every year by...

IP: the astonishing life of personal information

Each of us draws, every day, without knowing it, a virtual portrait of oneself. How are these data used? What is the impact of the handling of personal data banks on our individual and collective lives?