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In 2023, Pariscience will take place from October 26th to 30th, at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, at the Institut de physique du globe in Paris and online. Besides its 8 international competitions and 9 endowed prizes, the festival will offer exclusive Q&As, thought-provoking debates and other surprises!
Pariscience is an unmissable event for science and image enthusiasts, Pariscience screens for free a selection of the best of recent French and international production of scientific documentaries, in all lengths, all formats, for all audiences and on all subjects.
<p>ANOTHER BODY follows a college student’s search for answers and justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.</p>
<p>Marc Namblard, audio-naturalist, plunges into the heart of the Amazon forest to record the cries of disappearing species, and take their last cry with them. He therefore goes to meet the Native Americans who listen to the Amazon on a daily basis and retain remarkable knowledge of the living things around them.</p>
<p>“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian”. Sir Paul Mac Cartney</p> <p>Should we be outraged by one of the largest open-air slaughterhouses in the world?</p> <p>Every year, hundreds of pilot whales are hunted in the fjords of the Faroe Islands. It’s locally known as the “Grind”, a spectacular and bloody tradition. International activists would like to put an end to it, so that these mammals will stop suffering. But the Faroese whalers denounce the hypocrisy of those who eat meat without looking at what is happening in slaughterhouses and at the industries polluting our planet. Using beautiful, haunting, and rare footage, "A Taste of Whale" relies on the specific circumstances of the Faroe Islands to reflect on a significant, global issue of our time. In presenting the perspectives of whalers and activists through four relatable and passionate characters the film invites the audience to bear witness to the “Grind” and to confront a practice too often taken for granted.</p>
<p>What happens if algorithms make mistakes? We tell the stories of people whose lives have been irreparably damaged by algorithms. And we ask researchers, politicians and artists how we can imagine a better and safer future around AI.</p> <p>Algorithms decide whether we are creditworthy, entitled to social welfare and which partner is the right one for us. They make momentous decisions about our lives without our knowledge. It's hoped that they will be more efficient than us and eliminate human error with their cold logic. But a look behind the intimidating façade of artificial intelligence reveals a very different, rather disturbing picture. We meet people whose lives have been turned upside down by misjudgements of algorithms. Like teenager Marie who became anorexic as a result of YouTube algorithms. Macarena, in Spain, was forced to go into hiding from her abusive husband for six years after an algorithm used by the police had calculated that she and her children were not at risk and therefore needed no further protection. Derya in the Netherlands became homeless after an algorithm branded her a fraud and the Dutch tax authorities demanded a refund of thousands of euros that she was unable to pay. These errors stem not from the algorithms themselves, however, but from their developers and users. After all, algorithms are essentially neutral computations that can be used for good or for ill. But who is responsible if AI turns out to be a curse rather than a blessing?</p> <ul> </ul>
<p>"The Arc of Oblivion" explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Set against the backdrop of the filmmaker's quixotic quest to build an ark in a field in Maine, the film heads far afield - to salt mines in the Alps, fjords in the Arctic, and ancient libraries in the Sahara - to illuminate the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory.</p>
<p>Animator Signe Baumane turns her gaze inward for My Love Affair With Marriage, a semi-autobiographical musical exploration of love, sex, romance, and gender as viewed through the lens of neurochemistry. A Greek chorus of Latvian village women and a friendly neuron inside our protagonist’s brain connect the film’s multiple thematic threads, as we follow young Zelma from childhood to young adulthood and into middle age, through several marriages and across multiple continents, in search of true love.</p> <p>From Greek mythology to reproductive biology, from Moscow to Toronto, My Love Affair With Marriage takes a creative, light-hearted look at the human desire to find the person who will finally make us feel complete. Using both two-dimensional and stop-motion animation, Baumane blends earnest vulnerability and dry humor. It’s a film that’s both deeply personal and relatable to anyone who’s ever lost themselves in a romantic relationship.</p>
<p>Living underground for 40 days without any notion of time: this is the challenge launched by explorer Christian Clot to 7 men and 7 women, a world first. How to adapt to this extreme confinement? How will the group interact in these unique living conditions? How will the body and brain respond to the loss of temporal reference points? Immersed in one of the largest caves in Europe with these timeonauts, this film tells the story of an unprecedented collective human and scientific experience. </p>
<p>This is a story of astronomy and astronomical missions. Of a NASA space mission called Lucy set to discover the origins of our solar system and an Earthly mission in Senegal, West Africa, to build a space agency.</p> <p>“Space is open for everyone; it belongs to everyone.” Senegalese astronomer Maram Kaire believes science will change the fortunes of his emerging country. But first, he must convince powerful Muslim leaders to embrace modern science. An invitation to lead a team of international scientists on a data-collecting mission for NASA provides a perfect opportunity to demonstrate the value of scientific collaboration. If Maram and his team can help that mission succeed, he will have come one step closer to his goal – to build a space agency in Senegal. And he may soon find his country has ancient connections to space he never dreamed existed.</p>
<p>Werner Herzog sets his sights on yet another mysterious landscape — the human brain — for clues as to why a hunk of tissue can produce profound thoughts and feelings while considering the philosophical, ethical, and social implications of fast-advancing neural technology.</p> <p>Werner Herzog turned 80 this year. He’s travelled on every continent including Antarctica. In recent films, he’s reached back in time to study ancient paintings, stared down into volcanoes, and cast our eyes heavenwards to contemplate meteorites. Now he ventures into the inner landscape of our brains.</p> <p>He teams with scientist Rafael Yuste who, in Herzog’s words, “is at the forefront of research that will change the world as much as the understanding of DNA has changed it.” They go on a road trip to meet an array of people whose cutting-edge research sounds like the stuff of science fiction. There’s the tech billionaire funding brain scanners. The scientist inspired by psychedelic trips to build a brain-to-computer interface. And the human rights lawyer who warns that the international community is totally unprepared for the rapid advances in neural technology.</p> <p>Herzog delights in dialogues that probe into philosophy, ethics, and the offbeat. He ponders questions such as: How do all our senses of motion, love, hate, pleasure, pain, and more emerge from the tissue inside our skull? How does music affect human existence? Do fish have souls? How does a tightrope walker conquer fear? How stupid is Siri? Are we living in some sort of theatre of thought, an imaginary world that only exists in our brain?</p> <p>The film is multifaceted, illuminating the technological advances that are helping people overcome brain-related illness, confronting conspiracy theories over implanted chips, and questioning the politics of mind control.</p> <p>Most of us will never set foot on the forbidding terrain Herzog has traversed. But we all have a brain. This film deepens our understanding of what’s happening inside it.</p> <p><em>Thom Powers, TIFF</em></p> <p> </p>
<p>While the chances of immortality may be very thin, about 500 people, aged 2 to 101, from around the world, have already committed their bodies or brains to cryonics, over the past 50 years. Frozen in liquid nitrogen, they put their trust, lives and fortunes into the promise of being revived one day by advanced future medicine. How cryonics actually works? What are the ideology and business behind it? What are the chances that these bodies will be reanimated one day? Is any of this really scientific, or is it just wishful thinking? And what does it say about our society? This character-driven documentary offers a journey to the heart of Silicon Valley, where some of the latest technologies are being developed. Immersed into a high-tech cryonics clinic in Arizona, USA, eligible participants to this scientifically and ethically controversial endeavour, will share their perspectives with us. As counterpoint, a diversity of experts will nuance the scientific reality of cryopreservation, and highlight the issues at stake, before this utopian dream can one day become real.</p>
<p>2022, the coincidence year when reality catches up with fiction. <em>Soylent Green</em> is the 1st sci-fi movie about a New York dystopia that disturbingly mirrors our daily life: climate change, overpopulation, water scarcity, drifting commodity prices, food crises...</p> <p><em>Soylent Green</em>, directed by Richard Fleischer, is a monument of social science fiction. Released in 1973, it is the first science-fiction film that doesn't evoke an exogenous threat (such as a Martian attack, a nuclear war...), but a climate and environmental disaster for which man alone is responsible. Soylent Green marks the very beginning of the awareness of the ecological emergency which, fifty years later, is only just beginning to take hold in people's minds.</p> <p>This documentary tells the story of the making of this iconic film, setting it in its historical and political context, while exploring its many troubling contemporary resonances. For in many respects, Richard Fleischer had hit the nail on the head: climate change, global overpopulation, water scarcity, raw material price drift, food crises. A few months ago, an article published by the leading magazine Bioscience raised a red flag. Signed by 15,000 international scientists, the text states that the earth's ecosystem is so degraded that "the very fabric of human life is now being challenged".</p>
<p>A stunning visual exploration of matter in various states of microbial transformation begs fundamental questions about our complicated relationships with other species.</p> <p>Wrought begins with that universal moment of disappointment: despite all best efforts, our food has gone bad. But instead of turning away in disgust, Wrought zooms in, approaching the usually hidden world of decay with curiosity and stunning time lapse photography. Spoiling dinner leftovers bloom with successions of geometric bacterial colonies. Yeasts churn and froth in the torrential flood of juice leaking from a decaying melon. Cheese is slowly engulfed by carpets of furry, green mould. But, the film asks, would rot by any other name still reek? </p> <p>In answering this question, Wrought unfolds a larger story about the ways we humans construct categories for the world around us that can be limiting. It explores (and challenges) terms like spoil, ferment, compost and rot as it coaxes audiences to decompose these categories and their associated binaries: self and other, human and non-human, and nature and culture. As the film title implies, we are all forged out of the relationships that transgress such binaries; we are all, indeed, wrought.</p>
<p>Requiem imagines the last remaining astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) bidding farewell to their vessel before it is deorbited and crashed into the remote South Pacific (an event scheduled to take place by the end of 2030).</p> <p>Combining original poetry with exquisite photographs and archive, this speculative documentary features the moving performances of real astronauts around the world who have spent time on the ISS and Mir space stations. As the ISS's lifespan draws inexorably to a close, how does one say goodbye to an outer space habitat that has been a home to astronauts for decades?</p> <p>Requiem features the voices and generous participation of Cady Coleman (NASA astronaut), Dumitru Dorin Prunariu (Romanian cosmonaut), Paolo Nespoli (ESA astronaut), Claudie Haigneré (ESA astronaut) and Soyeon Yi (South Korean astronaut). It also incorporates the incredible photography of astronaut Paolo Nespoli and visual artist Roland Miller, a collaborative documentation of the interior of the ISS.</p>
<p>As a young and brilliant scientist, Cécile is invited by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Schnidz to close a famous particle physics conference. It is the promise of a great career for her. But in the audience of this historical room, there is Enzo, her crackpot brother. And he is not here to congratulate her.</p>
<p>Gilbert, 68 years old, eco-friendly, has just completed the construction of his rocket aimed at destroying the dreams of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, and all the satellites around the Earth. A meeting with a star enthusiast and his incredible project.</p>
<p>For decades, it was believed that the beginnings of art had emerged in Europe, 20,000 years ago at Lascaux, then 36,000 years at Chauvet... Recent researches are shaking up our understanding of art. The art of prehistory is much richer than we thought. Sculpture, music, painting… the creativity of Sapiens testifies to a very high level of aesthetic mastery ... The oldest paintings have been dated to nearly 45,000 years old! And not in Europe, on the other side of the world, in Indonesia! The film goes in search of the origin of art and shows how art is inseparable from Sapiens, from our humanity.</p>
<p>Daisy is 5 years old, and screens are already an integral part of her life. At the age when everything is to be discovered, they participate in the reduction of his sensory experiences, but the lessons that nature teaches him slip into his daily life to complete his learning.</p>
<p>Mosses have colonised almost every corner of the Earth’s surface. Evolving from oceanic algae that emerged onto the land 450 million years ago, these very first terrestrial plants became a main source of oxygen for our evolving planet, helping transform it from an arid rock into a lush world. The Magical World of Moss travels to beautiful moss covered landscapes in Japan, Iceland, France and Denmark to meet scientists and experts investigating its astonishing properties and potential. Science is only beginning to understand the secrets and the possibilities of this remarkable plant.</p>
<p>The insatiably curious Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French court, where he can experiment freely, invent incredible machines and study the human body. He is joined on his adventure by the audacious French princess Marguerite de Nevarre.</p>
<p>How can we take a step back from the issue of vaccination when the invectives of recent years have made any debate inaudible? Here, the film brings together researchers, doctors and big names in vaccination to explore scientific advances, questions around immunity, benefits and risks of vaccination.</p>
<p>Today on Earth, it is difficult to find territories that humans have not impacted. During the Covid-19 pandemic, however, many spaces, usually populated by Homo Sapiens or on the contrary deserted, were occupied differently. How did the rest of life react to the sudden silence caused by the confinements? How did he behave? The pandemic, although a complex ordeal to live through, has been a unique opportunity for scientists around the world to observe wild animal species. The researchers thus collected data on their movements, and numerous information from field observations was analyzed on all continents. While the rhinos moved and the orcas made themselves heard, brown bears, deer and even crows provided astonishing information on animal behavior in these times of pandemic.</p>
<p>In a Parisian hospital, Claire Simon films a ward where destinies intersect: abortion, endometriosis, assisted reproduction, maternity, gender transition, cancer... There, she collects the stories of these individuals, their hopes, their desires, but also their fears. This film follows doctors and patients at a gynecology ward in France. </p> <pre> </pre>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">A third of humanity no longer sees the stars. By 2050, one in two people could be deprived of them. This is one of the consequences of light pollution. It also impacts all living things, animals, plants, but also us, humans, by influencing the quality of our sleep in particular. The overproduction of energy fueling this nocturnal pollution calls into question our lifestyles. What is the need to consume so much? What solutions are there to free ourselves from them? Continually invading the night sky in the four corners of the globe, light halos are also a real threat to astronomy: the preserved areas essential for scientists' observations are becoming increasingly rare. But it is also our intimate relationship with the sky and our environment that is being questioned... Because we need the stars, and men and women are mobilizing to save them.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Covering an area of 87,500 square kilometres, the Pelagos sanctuary was created specifically to protect large marine mammals. Many species feed and reproduce in this maritime area that extends from the Giens peninsula to Corsica and Italy: dolphins, whales, fin whales, sperm whales, etc.</span></p>
<p>What do so-called "wild" natural landscapes look like? Is human activity necessary to preserve some of these spaces or should we give free rein to the different plant and animal species that populate these environments? By giving a voice to those who work closely with these natural habitats in Norway, Denmark or Germany, the documentary attempts to provide some answers to these vast questions. The interviews with professionals, interspersed with sometimes astonishing images of animal life, lead us to question the very definition of wild nature and to wonder if this nature still exists in Europe. This film thus gives pride of place to many species and the interactions they weave between them: white-tailed pigardes, grey herons, water buffalo, co-evolution between grasses and ruminants, bees, interdependence between large herbivores, insects and plants.</p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Long considered mute, amnesiac, or emotionless, fish are now recognized by scientists for their remarkable cognitive abilities, complex social structures, self-awareness, and even emotional capacities. This documentary takes viewers on an underwater journey—from rivers to oceans, aquariums to global laboratories—to challenge preconceived notions about fish intelligence and reveal their true nature.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1"> "American Ocelot" chronicles the history, current challenges, and hopeful future of one of the United States' most endangered wild cats—the ocelot. With fewer than 120 individuals remaining in the U.S., primarily in South Texas, the film delves into conservation efforts by biologists, ranchers, and government agencies to protect and restore ocelot populations. Through camera trap cinematography, it offers a rare glimpse into the life of a mother ocelot raising her young, highlighting the species' struggle for survival and the collaborative efforts required to ensure their future.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">In March 2021, explorer-researcher Christian Clot, along with 14 volunteers (7 women and 7 men), embarked on an unprecedented scientific expedition by isolating themselves for 40 days in the Lombrives cave in southern France. Devoid of natural light and any time indicators, the group aimed to study human adaptability and the brain's perception of time in a timeless environment. This documentary captures their journey, exploring how individuals and the group as a whole synchronize and function without temporal references.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">This documentary investigates how social media applications like Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Snapchat exploit the brain's dopamine system to create addiction. By examining scientific research from around the world, it reveals the mechanisms these apps use to capture our attention and make us increasingly dependent on them. The film aims to provide insights into regaining control over our smartphone usage.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">For almost a month, aboard the largest ship in the French Oceanographic Fleet, 75 students will have a unique experience around the challenges of tomorrow's ocean. In the form of a logbook, this documentary recounts the first campaign of the "École Bleu Outre-mer" by following the chronology of this expedition in the Indian Ocean in the summer of 2022. The legendary Marion Dufresne has been transformed for the occasion into a new kind of training ship. Scientists, budding artists and future sailors, these young people from mainland France and the Indian Ocean basin are experiencing an oceanographic campaign from the inside, alongside the researchers and crew of the Marion Dufresne. Passion for science, vocations, exchanges, learning and curiosity are on the program of this extraordinary human adventure.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">"Bouillon Terrestre" is an episode from the series "Astronome Gastronome," directed by Geneviève Anhoury. The film creatively illustrates the formation of Earth using culinary ingredients to represent cosmic phenomena. It depicts how collisions of asteroids and comets, along with volcanic activity and incessant rains, contributed to Earth's development. The narrative employs food items like polenta, pralines, and powdered sugar to visualize these processes, offering a unique perspective on planetary formation.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1"> "Clafoutis d’étoiles" is an episode from the series "Astronome Gastronome," directed by Geneviève Anhoury. This short film creatively explores the life cycle of stars, from their birth to their eventual demise, using culinary ingredients to represent cosmic phenomena. By combining gastronomy and astronomy, the film offers an imaginative perspective on stellar processes, making complex scientific concepts accessible through the art of cooking.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">"Vol au Vent dans l’ISS" is an episode from the series "Astronome Gastronome," directed by Geneviève Anhoury. This short film uses culinary metaphors to explain gravitational forces and their effects both on Earth and in space. Through creative visuals involving blinis, clementines, and wafers, it illustrates how gravity keeps us grounded on Earth and how, in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station (ISS), objects and astronauts experience weightlessness. The film offers an engaging and accessible approach to understanding complex astrophysical concepts.</span></p>
<p>"Mars au Marsala" is an episode from the series "Astronome Gastronome," directed by Geneviève Anhoury. This short film delves into humanity's enduring fascination with Mars, exploring the quest for extraterrestrial life and the search for water on the Red Planet. Utilizing culinary metaphors, such as wafers and blueberries, the film offers a digestible explanation of Mars' geological features and the scientific endeavors aimed at uncovering its secrets.</p>
<p>"Goulash Sidéral" is an episode from the series "Astronome Gastronome," directed by Geneviève Anhoury. This short film uses culinary metaphors to explain the concept of light traveling through the vast expanses of the universe. It illustrates how light, despite traveling at 300,000 km per second, reaches us with delays due to immense cosmic distances, allowing us to observe the universe's history. The film employs Japanese candies to represent celestial phenomena, offering an engaging perspective on astrophysics.</p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1"> "CORAIL" is a musical short film directed by Lili Schmitt as part of the "Plongeon" project, a collaboration between GOBELINS Paris and Renée Prod. The film immerses viewers in the nostalgic memories of a young boy who fondly recalls his seaside vacations and the vibrant corals he admired. Years later, he returns to these cherished locations, seeking the once-brilliant colors of the ocean. Through poetic visuals and music, the film emphasizes the importance of preserving coral ecosystems, highlighting their complexity and vital role on our planet.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1"> "Hivernage" is a short animated documentary directed by Adélie Braud. The film presents a scientist's unique experience of spending a winter aboard a ship trapped in Greenland's ice. Through poetic visuals and narration, it explores the challenges and beauty of such an isolated environment.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">As land-based deposits are being depleted, states and industrialists are taking a close interest in ocean resources, but their exploitation could have serious consequences for underwater ecosystems. In 2024, an "abyssonaut" submarine explores the ocean depths for the first time. Its occupant describes with ecstasy the fauna, flora, and deposits of rare metals that parade before her eyes. We discover at the end that it is closely followed by an extractor that crushes everything we have seen previously.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">It is estimated that a third of the carbon dioxide released into nature by humans has been absorbed by the ocean since the beginning of the 19th century (industrial revolution). How can such small, seemingly harmless CO2 molecules cause a mass extinction of marine animals?</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Josef Gatti's Gravity highlights an experiment that visualizes the relationship between matter and gravity through a tangible representation of spacetime. The setup includes a fabric stretched over a large ring to symbolize spacetime, with a heavy ball placed on it to simulate the gravitational pull of a star. Smaller ball bearings spiral around this central mass, mimicking planetary orbits. Filmed under ultraviolet light, the experiment enhances the visibility of orbital motions, while a BOLT motion control robot synchronizes the camera with the simulation's rotations, producing an effect akin to observing a galaxy in time-lapse. This film was inspired by the desire to simulate the dynamics of a galaxy over billions of years, capturing its evolution and movement in a compressed visual format. It combines scientific inquiry with artistic representation to explore cosmic forces and dynamics.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Alcohol and inks were dropped into hydrocarbons where the chemicals react and change in composition. The reaction produced convection-cells in the liquid, producing explosive patterns like those seen on the surface of the sun. The reactions were captured on an ultra-bright light box, causing the light to penetrate through the reaction and project intricate detail directly onto the high resolution digital sensor. Hydrocarbons used include linseed oil, WD40, shellite, and pure gum turpentine. A variety of pre-mixed alcoholic inks were used, as well as manually creating mixes with pigments, isopropyl alcohol, and methylated spirits. The purpose of this film was to create a visual of energy.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">All creatures in animal town discover they can use the pig's snout for their current supply. First, they use it for simple things; a hot-water bag for the cat or an electric razor for their furs. Next, they connect the entire town to the snout. Sooner or later, things will surely get out of hand. When the pig is exhausted, they have to think of something else. But what? They can no longer live without their ventilators and security cameras. A tragicomic animation as a fable of climate change.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">An elegy to a love affair that has gone sour, a fond farewell to that most beautiful material that has subjugated our planet - plastic.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Among the different species that inhabit our planet, one stands out for its power and impact on ecosystems. It's the Autosaurus Rex.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Due to global warming a young polar bear has to leave her home in summer 2031 and move to Zurich. She tries to make a living until she suddenly has an idea that will change the world forever.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Nummer 2 alternates between microscopic scenes of animal life, where formerly extinct species have mutated and thrive, and vast, sweeping landscapes. The rhythm is contemplative, building a sense of place, an atmosphere. The render is at once graphic and photographic, inspiring a sense of familiarity and distance.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">“Frankenstream” meets the founding fathers of streaming, examines its history and its conquest of the world, and ultimately questions our blindness to digital pollution. A collage of archives, interviews and data, the story offers a frightening dive into this technology, a mirror of our own excesses on the internet.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">After the delivery of a package, when leaving a restaurant, a hotel, a train, or following an exchange with the customer service of your telephone operator, the same request: rate. On a scale of 0 to 10, embellished with colors, or by assigning small stars, pretty and playful. A simple, mechanical and painless action for the rater. But behind this innocuous gesture hides a brutal management system, operated directly by the customer, without their knowledge. Even more worrying: without knowing it, we are all rated, to feed the algorithms of opaque companies that claim to succeed in predicting the future. The film questions this invasion of rating systems, the consequences of this practice in our individual realities and for our collective freedoms.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">For doctors of the time, it was Ada Lovelace's (1815-1852) "jumping uterus" that was the origin of her scientific temperament. A crazy theory that allowed her successes to be minimized: the first programmer in history, the daughter of the poet Lord Byron developed the algorithm for the calculating machine imagined by the mathematician Charles Babbage.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Edmund Beecher Wilson and Thomas Hunt Morgan are considered the fathers of modern genetics. However, it was their laboratory assistant, Nettie Stevens (1861-1912), who carried out the experiment proving the role of the Y chromosome in sex determination. These gentlemen first refuted her discovery, before appropriating it…</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">After their stormy divorce, Albert Einstein switched from "we" to "I". However, his correspondence shows that his ex-wife, Mileva (1875-1948), whom he met on the benches of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, contributed greatly to his greatest discoveries. Her name would soon be forgotten, buried under the legend of the father of relativity.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">At Harvard, Cecilia Payne (1900-1979) discovered that the Sun and stars were made of hydrogen. Her professor, Henry Norris Russell, took all the glory when he later made this conclusion. Having become the first woman to head the astronomy department at Harvard, she fell victim to the Matilda effect, the minimization of women's work in science.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she pushed through the skepticism from her superiors to make one of the greatest astrophysical discoveries of the twentieth century. While Jocelyn was belittled and sexually harassed by the media, the Nobel Prize was awarded to her professor and his boss.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Zoé, a student, works two afternoons a week as a delivery girl at Gogo Pizza... For the past six months, she has been going to the Faculty of Science every Wednesday to deliver the orders of four mathematics researchers. Plagued by doubts about her future, that Wednesday, events will give her back all her self-confidence.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Explores the intricate relationship between gender and brain function. The film poses the compelling question of whether men and women possess fundamentally different brains, and if so, how these differences influence behavior, cognition, and emotional responses.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">"L'impact des stéréotypes de genre dans les métiers" by Laure Delalex explores how gender stereotypes influence career choices and professional environments. It discusses the persistence of these stereotypes in society and emphasizes the need to "de-gender" professions to promote equality and diversity in the workplace. </span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Les Femmes Oubliées De L’informatique" is a short film directed by Laure Delalex, which highlights the contributions of women in the field of computer science, particularly during the 1980s in France. </span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">"Les Femmes En Minorité En Maths," directed by Laure Delalex, is a short film that explores the challenges faced by women in the field of mathematics. It highlights the underrepresentation of women in this discipline and aims to raise awareness about the barriers they encounter. The film likely features personal stories and testimonials from women mathematicians, showcasing their experiences and the systemic issues that contribute to gender disparity in the field.</span></p>
<p>“Science: it’s a girl thing” created evil for good. This campaign highlighted the presence still today of numerous conscious and unconscious stereotypes, even within the European Commission. Through the ingenuity of Curt Rice, the “Science: it’s your thing” competition and the creativity of students knowing how to carry out a project in the age of science 2.0, additional initiatives are being added to the cause of women in Science. And this for our greatest pleasure. Since then he has alternated between writing and directing single documentaries (on Miyazaki) and series (Dopamine, Culbute) for Arte or a podcast on his authorship with Paradiso Media. With a strong interest in comedy and reality, he is now developing a fiction series, October on the Farm, with a dairy cow as the main character.</p> <p>Cette vidéo a été créée dans le cadre du concours 2012 "Science it's your thing" organisé par la commission européenne pour encourager plus de femmes à choisir des carrières scientifiques. La vidéo a reçu le prix du jury ! La version originale en anglais est ici :<a href="http://youtu.be/oWMbnOlwJas" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://youtu.be/oWMbnOlwJas</a><br><br>Musique par J.Lang<br><br>DrawMeWhy est un projet de vulgarisation scientifique des étudiants du CRI<a href="http://www.cri-paris.org/en/cri/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://www.cri-paris.org/en/cri/</a></p>
<p>Some people perceive their environment differently than others: They see numbers and letters in color, taste words, feel sounds or see feelings. These perceptual phenomena are not pathological. Instead, it is a unique ability for which there is the term: "synesthesia”.</p>
<p>Flowers defy the impossible. Under their seemingly fragile appearance, they’re fierce fighters. Their history is that of their dazzling conquest of the planet. Today, they represent 90% of plant species. According to Charles Darwin, “The rapid development of flowering plants is an abominable mystery.”</p> <p>What place do flowers hold in the tree of all living beings? When did they first appear on Earth? How can we explain their prodigious diversification? And what are the superpowers that make them invincible?</p> <p>To answer these question and solve the abominable mystery of flowers, a new generation of scientists is hard at work. From the African deserts to the summits of the Alps, their discoveries are revolutionizing the way we conceive the origin and expansion of flowering plants.</p> <p>For the first time, we reveal secrets of flowers with never-before-seen images, time-lapse, and super slow motion captured with a next generation macro-lens. Thanks to stunning, high-detail computer animation, we retrace the history of flowers, diving into the heart of their cells to illuminate the real reasons for their success. Embark on this breathtaking scientific investigation as we lift the veil on the fascinating mystery of flowers.</p>
<p>Welcome to the world of PLSTC, an undersea dystopia that submerges you in the disturbing reality of plastic pollution. Through a series of graphically confronting AI-generated and hand-composited images, this animated film confronts you with the devastating consequences of our habits on marine life and leaves you gasping for breath.</p>
<p>`<span data-sheets-root="1">From the far north of Canada to the southern tip of Chile, through the southern United States, central Mexico and the Brazilian Mato Grosso, new concordant but still controversial archaeological discoveries have brought a new paradigm to the archaeology of American prehistory: the appearance of the first humans on the continent could date back to nearly 30,000 years before our era, that is to say, about 15,000 years earlier than the commonly accepted and taught thesis. Although there were a few mavericks in the past who disputed the scenario according to which the first ancestors of Americans arrived on foot through the Bering Strait 16,000 years ago, they were long kept out of the scientific community.</span></p>
<p>A young doctor with an exemplary humanist spirit fights a brave battle to hold together the run-down Paris hospital where he works and to hold his patients together in the process.</p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">In 2018, archaeologists made a spectacular discovery in Norway: a 20-metre, 1,200-year-old Viking burial ship. Who is buried there, and what can it tell us about the daily lives, beliefs and traditions of the Vikings? An exceptional archaeological expedition begins to find answers.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Curiosity can change the world, and Fabiola Gianotti is proof of that. This portrait tells her story from childhood. How did a young physicist come to take over the management of CERN in Geneva, the world's largest particle physics laboratory?</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">2014, Turkey. A surveillance flight over Lake Iznik reveals the sunken remains of a 4th-century Byzantine basilica. This church is located on the site of the ancient Roman city of Nicaea. This city is said to have hosted one of the founding moments of Christianity, ordered by Emperor Constantine: the 1st Council of Nicaea. From Turkey to the Vatican, from Oxford to France, an international scientific team will conduct a double investigation, historical and scientific, to unravel the mysteries surrounding the sunken basilica of Iznik.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Follows the world's most powerful observatory "The James Webb Space Telescope", which is set for launch after over 25 years of development and construction.</span></p>
<p>THE SCIENCE OF SUCCESS brings the audience an exciting, new understanding of how society works and offers insights into<br /> how success emerge. It’s the story of intersecting discoveries with an incredible conclusion: all success, from money, awards and<br /> impact follow mathematical patterns.<br /> We’d like to believe that luck, hard work or talent, mixed together in some magic proportion are the ingredients that create<br /> success. We feel injustice when for all our hard work someone else picks up the reward; a sinking feeling when our talent is<br /> overlooked for a job; an intuition that an unseen pattern might explain why some of us soar while others fail, how some people<br /> just keep on winning.<br /> But until recently, we were looking in the wrong places to explain success. In groundbreaking discoveries we reveal that success<br /> depends a lot less on us and a lot more on others and their collective response to our performance. In the age of Big Data where<br /> we can track achievements like a GPS tracks our movements, for the first time we can begin to see patterns in the fabric of<br /> society. Now, astoundingly, we are able to map and to predict the paths to success.</p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">This scientific and behavioral investigation delves into the mechanisms of the "neuronal symphony", this chain reaction of stimuli triggered by music. When listening to it, neurons coordinate like the instrumentalists of a large orchestra: the more the brain synchronizes, the more it develops its skills. According to the neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists interviewed (including Professor Emmanuel Bigand), music can be recognized as a biological necessity, generating dopamine in the same way as food or sex, the two pillars of survival. In counterpoint, the film evokes the "amusiques", these people suffering from a deficit of perception and incapable of identifying a piece of music, such as Roosevelt or Nabokov. Che Gevara, for his part, could not recognize the Argentine anthem. Rebel to the end...</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">In the heart of Paris, an entire palace has disappeared. It was the very first residence of the kings of France. Long before Versailles, long before the Louvre, the Palais de la Cité stood on the most prestigious island in Paris, the historic cradle of France, opposite Notre-Dame. So majestic in the Middle Ages, this palace has become a ghost of history. Over the centuries, this architectural masterpiece has almost completely disappeared. A trio of experts will bring it back to life in 3D. Using science and unprecedented excavations, they will track down the pieces of the puzzle to reconstitute it at its peak in the 14th century, and bring back to life the people who inhabited it. From the Romans to the Vikings, from Saint-Louis to the accursed kings, all have left clues to this "Versailles of the Middle Ages".</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Together with its sister companies ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, Shell and ConocoPhillips, Total is one of the six oil and gas super-majors. Total produces 2.8 million barrels and charters 143 million tonnes of oil per year. It has 800 industrial sites and 14,000 petrol stations around the world. But today, the climate crisis, the concern of public opinion and the mistrust of governments are shaking up this multinational which, like the others, is fighting to maintain its hegemony. In the group's communication, "social commitment", "renewable energies" and "sustainable development" have become common expressions. But does Total really want to become more virtuous with regard to human rights and the climate.</span></p>
<p>Despite unprecedented conservation efforts, Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, died out in Kenya in 2018. He is the symbol of a major crisis: the sixth mass extinction. Every year, animal and plant species disappear forever, making biodiversity ever more fragile. But thanks to advances in genetic engineering and biotechnology, scientists are dreaming of reviving what was thought to be lost forever. Research programs are springing up all over the world. What if de-extinction was a new hope?</p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">In Charnizay, an agricultural town of 500 inhabitants, the project to install four wind turbines is causing discord. Between the anti-wind turbines who fear seeing their world change and the "pros" who are panicking about climate change, the battle is raging.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">What economic tactics to maintain the appeal of sporting events in stadiums?</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Financial inclusion: not everyone has a bank account</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Virtual universes and human-machine interaction</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Muscle recovery through brain stimulation</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">The senses and perception of the world around us</span></p>
<p>Chosen to open the 40th anniversary of the Nature series on PBS, this film is about a veteran wildlife cameraman who is bee obsessed. Seeking refuge from the pandemic in a small city garden, he is filming the wild bees that live there with mind-blowing results. From giant bumblebees to scissor bees the size of a mosquito, he has seen over 60 species of bee. But more importantly, he is developing a close relationship with an individual bee he follows through its entire life.</p>