Playlist
For the first time, the 17th edition of Pariscience took place in theaters and online. From October 4th to October 21st,
<p>Plagued by insomnia and an incurable autoimmune disease, journalist Shannon Harvey teams up with a group of scientists to explore whether daily meditation can truly impact health. In the face of stress, anxiety, and depression, could meditation be the solution the world needs?</p>
<p>Bats, long vilified in popular culture, are now suspected of being the origin of COVID-19. This virus joins a long list of epidemics associated with bats, including Ebola, MERS, and SARS. Bats indeed harbor thousands of viruses yet remain mysteriously unaffected by their effects. This remarkable resistance has made them a key subject of fundamental research as scientists strive to uncover their secrets.</p>
<p>In just thirty years, climate change has increased the thaw rate of permafrost sevenfold. This process releases greenhouse gases that further accelerate its melting, as well as bacteria and viruses. What do scientists predict? Researchers are studying permafrost to understand the impact of human activities on its thawing and the risks it poses to us and our planet.</p>
<p>Could biological transmissions over vast astronomical distances be the preferred mode of communication between advanced cultures in space?</p> <p>A short experimental documentary regarding the biodynamic interstellar communication experiments of electronics engineer L. George Lawrence.</p>
<p>You think you know what a physicist’s life is like? Follow a day in the life of a typical physicist using a mixture of live action and cartoon drawing, with a few fascinating facts and anecdotes along the way.</p>
<p>Filmmaker, Ali Alvarez, collaborates with one of America’s leading astrophysicists, Dr. Rebecca Oppehnheimer, in a tribute to one of the world’s leading scientific institutes, Palomar Observatory - creating a reflection on the memories of the universe lost due to the pandemic.</p>
<p>While working in Strasbourg and as France goes into lockdown, Weijia Ma hurriedly returns to China. Upon her arrival, another lockdown awaits her. From a surreal flight to her eventual release, she chronicles this experience in a video diary infused with the humor and creativity of a romantic comedy.</p>
<p>Entanglement is a phenomenon that defies our intuitive understanding of reality. Yet, on the quantum scale, two separate particles can form a single physical entity, regardless of the distance between them. Through a blend of animation and cyberpunk aesthetics, this documentary unveils the strange nature of this modern physics phenomenon.</p>
<p>Felix has his own radio show: Radio Felix, a mix of political reports and imaginary tennis matches. At school, Felix often faces challenges due to his autism. The radio becomes a powerful tool to help others better understand his daily experiences.</p>
<p>In December 1990, Beninese media reported a devastating case of mass food poisoning in the commune of Djakotomey. Today, the risks of salmonella infection remain significant. This documentary highlights the probable causes of salmonellosis and explores alternative treatments proposed by scientists at the University of Abomey-Calavi.</p>
<p>With poetic charm, this animated short film tells the story of Choum, a little owl who hatches in the midst of a storm. In search of parents, Choum encounters various animals and even humans. The film gently explores the theme of our coexistence with the wild.</p>
<p>Off the coast of Réunion Island rises an imposing underwater mountain, still largely unknown to oceanographers: Mount La Pérouse. Biologist Patrick Durville, alongside Laurent Ballesta, a researcher and photographer, assembles a team of scientists and divers to explore this geological mystery.</p>
<p>A revolution is underway: farmers are befriending foxes and welcoming weeds. While conventional agriculture has sought to eradicate so-called "nuisance" nature, others are learning to embrace it. Could wild farms herald a new alliance between humans and nature?</p>
<p>Who were the animals of the Mesozoic Era? Using modern paleontological investigation methods, scientists are creating a more accurate picture of these still unknown species. This film reveals the richness of life and animal behavior through three emblematic specimens from this era.</p>
<p>In a display case at the Museum of Mankind, a skull covered with Latin inscriptions has been resting since the 19th century. For many, it is believed to belong to the famous philosopher, René Descartes. Anthropologist and forensic physician Philippe Charlier investigates this fascinating and surprising story from 1650 to the present day.</p>
<p>What happens when a link in the chain of life disappears? What could the world of tomorrow look like if we don't better protect biodiversity? Experts explain the interconnections between species and the role each plays in the balance of ecosystems.</p>
<p>From the ravages of tobacco to the denial of climate change, this documentary reveals how research can be manipulated for deceptive purposes. What can we believe when science is undermined? Agnotology, "the science of ignorance," unpacks these phenomena of misinformation... to better enlighten us.</p>
<p>In Kromdraaï, South Africa, paleoanthropologist José Braga discovers the remains of two children. These could be the oldest bones found to date. These remains reignite a millennial debate still without an answer: how did humanity emerge?</p>
<p>Forensic psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow dedicates her life to studying how trauma affects the brain, particularly in violent individuals. To understand why some people commit murders, this film offers an immersive look into the minds of serial killers.</p>
<p>A first-hand journey across the globe analyzing the effects fear has on individuals and societies. Along for the ride are leading experts in neural science, psychology, political sciences and more, providing the insight of those who enjoy fear and those paralyzed by it. With exhilarating characters and intellectual scholars, the film analyses the universal question of why fear causes so much fear.</p>
<p>In 1924, the Ungemach Garden City was inaugurated in Strasbourg, intended to accommodate couples of "healthy and fertile stock" who, once selected, were required to found large families and raise their children in good conditions of hygiene and morality. This eugenic experiment, which would last more than 50 years, received the approval of local and national, political and scientific authorities, and fascinated many countries around the world. Due to its unprecedented nature, it requires us to revisit the entire history of eugenics, from its origins to its contemporary resurgences. A history that questions science and ethics, the individual and politics.</p>
<p>Track the importance of data mapping and analysis in the quest to improve public health. The painstaking work of past data detectives made us aware of epidemic "curves" as well as the extent of health inequalities among different U.S. communities.</p>
<p>Germany is turning away from nuclear power in 2022. Yet the country's nuclear nightmare goes on: with umpteen thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste and the hazardous dismantling of power plants which will take decades. NUCLEAR FOREVER by Carsten Rau takes an equally profound and alarming look at mankind's dream of atomic energy, in grand scenes that have yet to be portrayed like this, and in six interwoven episodes. In the end, the viewer can and must form their own impression of the mania called nuclear power that has no end.</p>
<p>It’s one of the biggest unsolved mysteries of the universe and for many scientists, neutrinos may be the storytellers to resolve the matter. What happened immediately after the big bang? How did we and everything we see throughout the cosmos come to be?</p> <p>Ghost Particle is a science documentary that follows international efforts to understand the universe with some of the biggest experiments ever built to study the smallest of known things: neutrinos. Neutrinos are invisible, nearly massless fundamental particles that pass through matter like ghosts and are impossible to see. They act in peculiar quantum ways and their identity-changing behaviour may hold the key to unlock clues for questions like how matter dominated anti-matter after the big bang to become us and everything we see in the universe.</p> <p>Based at CERN, Ghost Particle offers an inside view to how some of the world’s best minds set out to do the seemingly impossible: design a machine to detect the virtually undetectable.</p>
<p>The Bay of Naples is one of the most dangerous places in the world due to the presence of two major volcanoes: Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields. In addition, the proximity of other volcanoes, such as Stromboli or Etna, makes this area particularly exposed to the wrath of the earth. Volcanologists explore and model the complex geological process behind the eruptions in order to predict possible scenarios and improve their forecasts. A race against time to protect the three million people who live at the foot of these volcanoes.</p>
<p>A new geological period has begun: the Anthropocene. While tracing the history of industrial revolutions and the way in which human beings have shaped the Earth, this documentary proposes different options for the future, from energy management to the great challenge of feeding future populations.</p>
<p>Recently, a papyrus was discovered in a reserve of the Louvre Museum. It is a barely legible Greek text, topped with strange little signs.</p>
<p>"AI//What’s going on” is a documentary that raises the present and future of the human race linked to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our phones, economies, doctors, hearts and brains are already conditioned by AI and this will not stop. AI will reach all the sides of human life. Perhaps it is time to decide at what point we should trust intelligent cars, autonomous killer drones, assistance robots or brain chips. The creators of Artificial Intelligence are concerned about this question. ¿Will we turn into superhumans or will we just loose control of our destiny?</p>
<p>Throughout the ages, each time a new technology has appeared, it has transformed our lives and society — today more than ever. Lead by digitalization, followed by new living and intelligent technologies, our world is being transformed in a way that’s difficult for us to comprehend. A group of the world’s leading scientists isolate themselves for 10 days at the renowned Santa Fe Institute, hidden away in the desert of New Mexico. They come from all corners of science representing environment, economy, democracy, social media, education, status of institutions and artificial technology. Together, they want to start a revolutionary movement with an ambitious goal: To secure the future of humanity through science by finding the path to a new paradigm.</p>
<p>If computers could let you live forever, would you? When our minds and memories can be digitized, self-help guru Deepak Chopra and leading robotics engineers envision virtual clones that don't need a body to survive.</p>
<p>A new documentary from Werner Herzog about meteors and comets and their influence on ancient religions and other cultural and physical impacts they've had on Earth.</p>
<p> </p> <p>Black holes stand at the limit of what we can know. The Event Horizon Telescope links observatories across the world to simulate an earth-sized telescope. With this tool the team pursues the first-ever picture of a black hole, resulting in an image seen by billions of people in April 2019. Meanwhile, Hawking and his team attack the black hole paradox at the heart of theoretical physics—Do predictive laws still function, even in these massive distortions of space and time? Weaving them together is a third strand, philosophical and exploratory using expressive animation. “Edge” is about practicing science at the highest level, a film where observation, theory, and philosophy combine to grasp these most mysterious objects.</p>
<p>At the heart of the largest hospital in Europe, the Pitié-Salpêtrière AP-HP hospital, the fight against the Covid epidemic mobilized all the staff. During the global health crisis, we sought to understand how the public hospital functioned and how it held up when it was already in difficulty.</p>
<p>"Nowadays, we don’t necessarily die of a cancer. We are led to live with it longer. So, how to live with your best enemy? From a taboo subject, we have come to a society topic which spreads out in the open: blogs, associations, magazines are emerging. They allow informing, to share, to break loneliness in the face of illness and unify wishes to give birth to projects or lead actions to change the minds. The experience of disease sometimes allows making ideas, projects, life changes emerge. To transform the illness trial into something positive is the first step towards healing. Lili, Denis, Séverine and Nathalie give their testimonials full of emotions, and humor on the way they succeeded to go through disease, reinvent themselves. Lili 2.0, colorful and dynamic animated character, that symbolizes cohabitation with cancer, question us and inform us, on a shifty tone. This documentary gives us another way to see and understand the illness."</p>
<p>Although the question of virginity seemed destined to disappear, there has been a resurgence of this custom. In the United Stated and in Europe, there are more and more women who join movements promoting abstinence until marriage. In Maghreb, far from claiming it as a choice, women continue to yield to tests to inspect their virginity. As a reaction to this pressure, a number of them resort to operations such as hymenoplasty (reconstruction of the hymen). And yet, as this film will show, physiologically, virginity does not exist. What is it a symbol of in our contemporary world?</p>
<p>In search of the reasons for his chronic insomnia, the director films his own investigation into sleep. Gradually widening his investigations, he goes to meet other plant and animal species. Living beings watch, sleep and dream. The wakeful sleeper questions these different states of consciousness and the difficulty humans have in synchronising their social rhythm with their biological rhythm.</p>
<p>Five of the most brilliant scientists of our time, gathered at the famous Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, take us on their search for a groundbreaking discovery. They face an enormous challenge. Because how do you go beyond the existing frontiers of human knowledge? By becoming part of their world, we experience that a scientific breakthrough is not merely a light bulb-moment. It is a demanding process with emotional setbacks, anxiety and insecurities. But it is also driven by boundless ambition, truthfulness and unimaginable perseverance. <br /> </p>
<p>Every day, Magali listens to the stories of pedophiles, within the CRIAVS at the Lapeyronie hospital in Montpellier. In a closed environment hidden from everyone's eyes, sick men, most of whom have been convicted of sexual crimes, end up here. In the basement of the hospital, they are required to be monitored. However, like a large majority of our society, many health professionals prefer to turn away from them. Magali, for her part, confronts our demons to better protect us from them.</p>
<p>Behind the scenes of a rewilding project takes us to Mozambique, to the Zinave National Park. Shaken by years of civil war, this park has seen its wildlife decline. In a territory that is now peaceful, a team undertakes to reintroduce a variety of animal species and rebalance the ecosystems. The film illustrates the complexity of the project: which species to reintroduce? In what order? Where to find them and how to make them travel? Will these animals adapt to their new environment? By focusing mainly on herbivorous species, the film explains their complementary role within the ecosystems.</p>
<p>Soft down and sharp beak: the goose, an animal often associated with an aggressive or moody character, remains largely unknown. Even today, the goose knows how to defend its share of mystery, whether wild or domestic. Scientists and passionate breeders observe this animal in its most intimate behaviors. Each speaker, in their own way, lifts a little piece of the veil on a bird whose wild nature has always made us dream: how does the goose live in a group? What do we understand about its intelligence? What relationship do humans have with this species and what does this relationship tell us about our way of living with nature?</p>
<p>For animals in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, the normal balance of competition and predation was upended when a war wiped out the top predators. The remaining animals didn’t simply grow in numbers—they began behaving in unusual ways, veering outside their typical territories and feeding patterns. Could it be that it’s not just predators’ kills that keep other populations in check, but also the fear they inspire? NOVA joins a team of scientists as they reintroduce wild dogs to Gorongosa to find out if restoring the park’s “landscape of fear” can restore balance to an entire ecosystem.</p>
<p>Dunes, dikes, polders, pharaonic dams: for more than 1,000 years, the fate of Amsterdam has beenin the hands of engineers. While the sea rises and rivers threaten more than ever, the Dutch invest, experiment, build, remodel their territory again and again. In their own way, they are rethinking the future of the planet.</p>
<p>Today, in the biggest sporting competitions, victory is decided by the smallest details. More and more coaches and athletes are unanimous: developing a champion's mentality would be the key to making the difference and reaching the podium.</p>
<p>"Mondes - Partie 1," directed by Baptiste Blanpain, combines animation sequences with interviews from scientists to explore the history of space sciences. The film delves into the past, present, and future of our understanding of the universe, offering insights into scientific advancements and discoveries.</p>
<p>The director followed the daily lives of researchers on the island of Riems, in Germany, home to one of the oldest virus research centers in the world. Since 1910, several hundred scientists have been trying to uncover the secrets of particularly dangerous viruses, such as rabies, swine fever, Ebola and SARS-CoV-2. The island is also home to around twenty different animal species (cows, poultry, pigs, crabs, mosquitoes, etc.), allowing researchers to study the effects of constantly mutating pathogens.</p>