Paris (AFP)
A bear's hair, a little Einstein and a dose of vitamins: Pariscience, the festival of scientific film, will return in late October in Paris with a "multicellular" program.
A total of 56 films, 25 of which are unpublished, will be screened from October 25 to 30 at the National Museum of Natural History and the Institute of Earth Physics.
"Animal and plant biodiversity, space exploration, history of science, medical research, archeology, ethnology ...." promised Fabrice Esteve, president of Pariscience, during the presentation of the festival.
The projections are free but the booking is recommended on pariscience.fr from Monday.
They will all be followed by a discussion with a scientist specializing in the issue covered in the film and, where possible, the film crew.
The Festival will open with Danish director Jeppe Ronde's "Almost Human" where a voice, that of Stephen Fry, questions 10 scientists and a robot about our relationship to technology. The director and the scientist Joël de Rosnay will then participate in the debate.
Spectators will also be able to discover "Vitamania", a musical investigation of vitamins, follow Rob Stewart's fight for sharkwater (Sharkwater Extinction), meet "platists" who believe that the Earth is flat ("Behind the curve ") or browse the Cordillera Cantabria in Spain with" Bear, simply wild "by Laurent Joffrion and photographer Vincent Munier.
The movie "The Great Wall of Japan" by Marie Linton looks back at the human and environmental consequences of an anti-Sun wall. Physicists wonder about the future of Einstein's theory in "Chasing Einstein" and "Secret Migrations - The Blackcap" is gaining ground.
Seven sessions will be dedicated to children, on holiday at the time of the festival.
The youngest (from 5 years old) will be able to discover the "hippopotamus of the ruts", which contrary to what suggests its name is a frog. The older children will be able to question their fears with "snakes in our heads" (from 8 years old) or relive the Apollo mission (12 years old).
Not to mention the internet videos, which have become essential in the world of popular science, with a new award "E-canvases of science" dedicated to them. The videos of the 19 youtubers selected, including "Sciences Vulgaires" with professor "Bob Danof", "Science de comptoir" on geology, or "Blablareau in the lab" on chemistry, will be screened on Sunday 27 October.
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