Docs+Science
7 films
Animus Animalis (A Story about People, Animal and Things) (Animus Animalis (istorija apie žmones, žvėris ir daiktus))
dir. Aistė Žegulytė
dok2018
Aistė Žegulytė aims her camera’s lens at taxidermists, breeders and museum curators attempting to freeze nature in place. She reflects on humanity’s need to control nature, and in particular on the process by which culture transforms an animal into an image, exhibit and a symbol.
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Flicker
dir. Dagomir Kaszlikowski
fab2026
Dag Kaszlikowski, a physicist and filmmaker, created a short, sensuous essay on perception. It focuses on the scientific idea of the so-called Boltzmann brain, which posits that a human can only be a fleeting fluctuation of particles, an illusion emerging from the chaos of the dying universe.
Read moreHuman Race
dir. Simon Lec
dok2025
A scientific thriller about a bold genetic project and, at the same time, equally grand ambitions as well as the price of developing science. The film's protagonist is Eske Willerslev, an outstanding DNA researcher who competes with time and his rivals, trying to decipher ancient human genomes.
Read moreLittle, Big, and Far (Małe, duże i daleko)
dir. Jem Cohen
dok2024
A story about the clash of human existence with the history of Earth and the universe. Karl, an Austrian astronomer, at the end of his professional career, reviews his life, the state of scientific knowledge, the condition of the world and disappointments related to it.
Read moreResilience (Při zemi)
dir. Tomáš Elšík
dok2025
A story about the significance of individual opposition to violence hidden in the foundations of ‘usual’ everyday management of natural resources. Czech director presents in parallel the story of an activist renovating habitats endangered by human expansion and the story of an ornithologist documenting the poisoning of protected birds.
Read moreShifting Baselines
dir. Julien Elie
dok2025
Is Boca Chica, Texas, a laboratory of interstellar future or a depressing backstage of techno capitalism and techno fetishism? Julien Elie, a Canadian director, demonstrates, with cold precision, typical of his works, how the expansion of Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX, brutally redefines the functioning of a local community and nature.
Read moreThe Tree of Authenticity (L'Arbre de l'Authenticité)
dir. Sammy Baloji
dok2025
Sammy Baloji, a Congolese visual artist, photographer and filmmaker, employs the archives of Yangambi, a historical centre of research on agriculture and tropical forests, as well as contemporary images of the Democratic Republic of Congo to demonstrate how knowledge about nature was used as a tool of colonial exploitation.
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