Maryse Bergonzat
Sometimes comical but often tragic, sleepiness takes an important part in our lives. First cause of lethal highway accidents, drowsiness invites itself in our work. What happens with our brain? Can we master sleepiness? By working on the sleep and especially on the functioning of awakening, researc...
Andrès Jarach
This documentary comedy shows us that a scientific film can be both funny and effective at once. Thomas B, hardcore smoker, is giving up. He was a heavy but happy smoker will he become a happy non-smoker ? Through his personal diary, we bare witness to his changing moods. We accompany him on his reg...
Yves Billy
The melting of the arctic polar ice has allowed the opening of a new maritime route between the Atlantic and the Pacific far shorter than the Panama or Suez Canals. Even though the route, going through an extremely vulnerable environment, is still considered dangerous, industrial countries are alrea...
BRAM CONJAERTS
In the region of Geneva, a group of scientists has built the LHC, the most powerful collider of particles in the world. This underground circle, measuring 27 km in length, should reveal the mysteries of the origin of everything. In The Circle we follow the ring above the ground in an existential sea...
Gilles Cayatte
On the 1st February 2003, just 16 minutes before it was due to land, the Space Shuttle Columbia blew up over Texas killing all seven astronauts aboard. With the witnesses and parties involved at the time, this documentary gives us a new outlook on the circumstances of the tragedy that directly cas...
Philippe Borrel & Gilbert Charles
3 years after the human genome was mapped, scientists began trying to crack the deepest secrets of our identity. On the basis of the analysis of one hair or one cigarette butt, geneticists claim that they are able to tell if a person is of Jewish, African or Asian heritage; to know his skin colour, ...
Sandrine Loncke
On the banks of the Moyen-Chari River, in Southern Chad, young linguist Florian Lionnet is documenting Láàl, a language isolate only spoken in two small villages, which is threatened of disappearing in the short to medium term. For the time being, however, people in this part of the world commonly s...