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TerraForma

Laurence Durkin Kevin Brennan

TerraForma is the story of the remote desert island of Ascension: for a million years entirely devoid of life, but which was engineered by process of 'terraforming' into a tropical paradise. It is also the story of what that transformation may mean for the fate of our planet, in a future when terraformed landscapes and human-engineered environments may come to warp our understanding of nature itself.

The Prediction Machine

Marleine Van Der Werf

This short documentary focuses on the research of acclaimed Dutch neuroscientist Floris de Lange. In his 'Prediction lab' he explores what predictions do with our perception. Inspired by the film 'Robocop' in his teens, De Lange became interested in the human brain and the question of whether you could reproduce it. But when he realized that no one has ever succeeded to create artificial intelligence that can perceive as well as humans do, this became his first step in his research to understand our brain.

Point of No Return (2016)

Zachary Finkelstein

Under a microscope tiny shards of ice loom large as glaciers. Using microscopic videography and polarizing lenses, Point of No Return is a visually stunning study of melting ice in real-time. The film provides a micro perspective on climate change, a massive but incremental global event that is usually imperceptible in our day to day lives. With narration in eleven of the most widely-spoken languages in the world,
Point of No Return presents a dialogue in abstraction between emotional understanding and scientific fact in the face of rising global temperatures.
Production Credits:
Director/Camera/Editing: Zachary Finkelstein
Sound Design: Alister Johnson
Narration: Rashpal Bhangoo, Adoney Guerrero Cortés, Samia Hossain, Katty Maurey,
Naoto Motoyama, Claire de Oliveira, Dipal Patel, Tamer Saber, Isabella Salas, Jeremy
Tan, Judith Williamson
Produced with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts

Mauvaise graine (Bad Seed)

Nadège Herrygers

On an estate, Sadia engages in a mysterious traffic. Arthur, a friend of hers, finds out what she is hiding. He will have to make a choice...