Docs+Science

6 films
In this year’s edition of Docs+Science, Karol Jałochowski paraphrases the title of Strugatsky's brothers book, Hard to Be a God, to place humanity squarely in the centre. Does this mean we’ve become as omnipotent as the gods we’ve invented? Is such a thing even possible? The creators of six exceptional documentaries, which will be screened at the 65th Krakow Film Festival.

  • Can't Feel Nothing

    dir. David Borenstein
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    Together with the director, we set out into the world to explore the nature of our addiction to social media and incessant scrolling. We reach the edges of the map, where trolls, propagandists and the influence industry produce the world’s most addictive content.

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  • Eternal You

    dir. Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck
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    Who has the right to dispose of the traces we leave in the digital world? Can we forbid the creation of our posthumous, partly self-aware avatars from these crumbs? Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block examine attempts at recreating the dead. Undertaken on the fringes of the mainstream today, they may become part of everyday life tomorrow.

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  • Life and Other Problems (Livet og andre problemer)

    dir. Max Kestner
    dok2024

    In 2014, the Copenhagen Zoo authorities decided that a giraffe named Marius should be euthanised. The decision provoked an avalanche of global public reaction. With reference to this story, Max Kestner questions popular beliefs about the essence of life, consciousness, and the alleged uniqueness of the human species.

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  • Light Darkness Light

    dir. Landon van Soest
    dok2024

    The director accompanies blind pastor Ian Nichols as he undergoes the pioneering procedure of an implant insertion to stimulate the optic nerve. The darkness in which the protagonist was immersed for decades is brilliantly illuminated, but in a way that is surprising, painful and verifies his original expectations.

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  • Surfing Einstein

    dir. Meritxell Campos Olivé
    dok2024

    One hundred years divide Albert Einstein’s prediction of the existence of gravitational waves and the experimental confirmation of these wrinkles of space-time. Scientists from research teams, together with Meritxell Campos Olivé, a director and choreographer, use dance to communicate frustrations and delights as well as failures and successes related to research work.

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  • The Arc of Oblivion

    dir. Ian Cheney
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    Ian Cheney is constructing an ark in a Maine meadow to carry his most precious memories across the ocean of time, but also to get himself to reflect on what is truly worth saving. Warning: the presence of legendary funnyman Werner Herzog aboard this vessel is a ruse.

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