Cineciência

A madár gyermekei (Children of the bird)

Júlia Tudisco

A fictional mythological movie about the birth and death of our planet. The movie shows things happening on the planet through the eyes of two naive god figures; a wild girl who has the power of creation, and a shy boy who has the power of destruction. This is not a fight between "bad" and "good", but a game between two equal parts to find harmony, which seems to work well until a new issue enters the story: the human race.

Marius Borodine

Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais

Genius Marius Borodine's spectacular new invention that can transform any and all objects into drinkable water, bewilders the public, scientific communities, and the family of the misunderstood creator, especially after he takes one step too far.

Los Mimos Monarcas (The Monarch Mimes)

Alexis Gambis

After the death of her partner and the rest of the migrating butterflies, the last monarch survivor has one last message to tell humanity.

Mountain (2018)

Isamu Hirabayashi

Animals are quarreling: to go or not to go to the mountain. A serious incident has happened in the mountain.

The eclipse which revolutionized physics

Renata Druck Bruno Horowicz

May 29th, 2019, celebrated 100 years of the eclipse observed from Sobral, in the interior of Ceará, which was the first experimental proof of the Theory of General Relativity, proposed four years before by German physicist Albert Einstein.

The Universe Within

Valentina Cruz Collins

From the Big-Bang, to understanding our place in the cosmos, we explore the Universe through the imagination of children. "The Universe Within" is a 4 episode series for kids made by kids, and the protagonists explain different astronomical concepts using metaphors invented by them, and create theories for the questions that have not yet been answered by science. Their explanations are illustrated by animations based on their own drawings so we can see how they imagine everything they are telling us about our Universe.
In the episode (The Beginning of the Universe) submitted for this festival, Joaquin (9) asks himself how the Universe began. He narrates a native Tehuelche myth about the Earth's origins. Then, he explains the Big Bang Theory, using metaphors and drawings of his own. Lastly, he questions the theory and comes up with his own answers.

Off-Line

Tom Gasek

Off-Line is a short stop-motion animated film that I created and produced over four years. It tells about my relationship to work and how I understand it. The film is focused on a small orange capacitor named "IZ" that lives on the circuit-board control-panel of a microwave oven. The microwave is constantly being abused by a human through overuse and inappropriate application and in the end the microwave shorts out. This is based on my own personal experience. When the microwave is shorted-out the human bangs the machine and on the inside IZ is jolted out of its connection holes. IZ is forced to travel around its world, the circuit board, seeking life force and discovering the world around it. In a classic "hero's journey" fashion, IZ eventually comes to the edge of the world and has a vision about work and its place in that system. IZ discovers its unique role in the grand scheme and decides to return to its position once the human gives the work-command. Now, enlightened, IZ chooses to step out of its connection holes by "free will" and encourages others to do the same. They concur, but in the end greater forces in life overcome the gift of the hero's journey.

Planet ∞

Momoko Seto

In a world in ruins, only fungi and mold grow in the middle of gigantic dried insects bodies. When a weather change occurs, rain irrigates the arid planet and floods it gradually. In the water springs an ecosystem, populated by giant carnivorous tadpoles.

Caroni

Ian Harnarine

An immigrant in New York tries to become a Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber) bird, so that she can travel back to the Caribbean for her child's birthday party.

Leonardo

Jim Capobianco

Art and science intersect in unexpected ways, as Da Vinci's experiments with flight lead him to the discovery of his most famous muse.

What about the nose?

Anna Lindemann Albana Kodra

What happens when you smell something? This whimsical look at olfaction follows the journey of a smell through the nose.
A film by Anna Lindemann and Albana Kodra as part of the Imagine Science Symbiosis Competition
Animation by Anna Lindemann.
Illustration by Ziael Ponte.
Microscopy by Albana Kodra.

Hoverboard

Sydney Freeland

After watching Back to the Future 2, an imaginative young girl and her stuffed teddy bear try to invent a real, working Hoverboard.

Dish Life

Chloë Thomas

"It's like having thousands of pets!" Dish Life compares the task of raising stem cells in the lab to the challenge of looking after a gang of unruly kids. In conversation with real-life children, scientists show how tricky it is to work with these 'super cells'.
Dish Life is the result of a collaboration between filmmaker Chloe Thomas (director), and stem cell researcher Loriana Vitillo & sociologist Karen Jent (executive producers). The film was realised with funding from the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust and is part of the Life in Glass initiative.
Director / Writer | Chloe Thomas
Producers | Loriana Vitillo, Karen Jent
DoP | Gabi Norland
Sound | Bridget Bradshaw
Editor | Michael Johnson
Music | Jim Meacock

The Everlasting Pea

Su Rynard

Through the eyes of a scientist questioning plant consciousness, a pea plant dreaming of its past in Rome's Colosseum, and a botanist unravelling a mystery, The Everlasting Pea invites a profound reimagining of our relationship with the vegetal world.

Anoana

Line Klungseth Johansen

During a solar eclipse a girl decides to put her powers to the test in the northern wilderness. She takes on the ultimate challenge, a fierce and formidable musk ox.

Planet Z

Momoko Seto

Somewhere in the Universe, on the PLANET Z, a miracle happens. A water jet springs up and gives birth to a new life: plants. A desert planet becomes a green planet. Different species cohabit, including liquid and sticky mushrooms. But little by little, the mushrooms invade the green land and destroy the idyllic life. The toxic spores kill the plants and transform the green planet into a mouldy land. After destroying all the vegetation, the future of the mould seems uncertain – a species cannot live without other ones.

PLANET ∑

Momoko Seto

In PLANET ∑, giant creatures are trapped inside the ice. Submarine explosions provoke a global warming, and a new life begins for animals. This is the third piece from the PLANET series, after PLANET A (Locarno 2008) and PLANET Z (Berlinale 2011).

Jus d'orange

Alexandre Athané

Toni grows oranges. He loves them, they are his treasure. Until one day, strange cargo ships dock in the valley. Cargos loaded with... GREEN oranges!

Dharini (Earth)

Anupama Pradhan

With an inquisitive mind and a love for science, Dharini is full of exuberance and ambition... as well as the naivet̩ of a teenager who has yet to face real loss in her life. Taking place over the 16 days of the ill-fated Columbia space shuttle mission of 2003, Dharini delves into the world of an imaginative young woman whose personal tragedy seems somehow linked to the greater cosmos. When a sudden accident forces her to confront questions she cannot answer, Dharini struggles to overcome a numbing grief and begins to grasp the vastness and mystery of a universe that cannot be fully explained.

A Body Called Life (2024)

Spencer MacDonald

A self-isolated young human known as "James" delves into the hidden world of microscopic organisms, forging a tender connection with these nearly invisible creatures and developing a massive online following, as he seeks to understand his own place in the cosmos and accept the scars of his past.
"A Body Called Life" is a film made in collaboration with James, with a screenplay adapted from the verbatim Instagram posts of James, and starring James as James. It is an experiment in storytelling, about a life spent observing other little lives, with a charming score by Dan Deacon.

The Adventurous Cosmos

Claudia A. Escobar

The Cosmos is alien and playful. Cosmos probes and flows through the everyday world, pushing the boundaries between the infinite and the familiar.

Insane in the Chromatophores

Gregory Gage

During experiments on the axons of the longfin squid in Woods Hole, we were taken in by the beauty of the fast changing color of the skin. The squid's skin contains many colorful light-reflecting cells called chromatophores. We wanted to try to stimulate the fin nerve directly from our iPod. The results were both interesting and beautiful. The video is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the squid's fin. We used a suction electrode to stimulate the fin nerve.

Biopixels

Kristina Dutton

Butterflies and moths comprise 12% of all species known to man (180,000 species!), and their seemingly endless biodiversity is visually translated on their wings through color and pattern variation. Incredibly, we humans share these specific wing shaping genes with butterflies, and actually these major molecular paintbrushes are found in numerous other creatures as well.
Shot at two cutting-edge research labs which specialize in the evolution of butterflies and moths, BIopixels is an animated short film exploring the world of evolutionary biology on the microscopic scale.
The images - rendered from collections containing over 50,000 specimens - were take by microscopists over three years to create the animated shorts Nanoscapes and Biopixels. Both the animation and the score play with concepts of pattern, time, density and other means of development common to biological evolution.

Squid: Coming to Life

Nipam Patel

Microscopy, timelapse, and observation beautifully captures a lab's full study of squid embryonic development.
Original score gives a momentum and underscores the aesthetic beauty of these images and data.
Squid Development with music composed and performed by Kristina Dutton and Nathan Clevenger.

Murmurations (2020)

Xavi Bou

In winter, starlings join in flocks of thousands of individuals to try to confuse the hawks that attack them, doing a mesmerizing dance.
This film it's part of the Ornitographies photographic project. This project focuses on birds in order to capture in a single time frame, the shapes that generates when flying, making visible the invisible.