New York City, October 2009

BY ALPHABETICAL ORDER:

Apollo 10.5
Directed by Lance Gambis
In Competition
NASA’s secret mission in May 1969 to send a six-year old boy to the Moon.

The Aviatrix
Directed by Toddy Burton
In Competition
Anne is lonely. She lives with her mother, has no friends, and is fighting cancer. Her escape from reality exists in the form of The Aviatrix, an intergalactic superhero alter ego…

A Biometric Tale
Directed by Nicolas Jacquet
Pariscience Selection
What would the world be like if biometrics was used everywhere? Here is the story of Little Red Riding Hood reinterpreted for the exhibition in a biometric world.

BLAST!
Directed by Paul Devlin
Showcase
A team of ultra-adventurous astrophysicists aim to unlock the mysteries of the universe by launching a multi-million dollar telescope attached to a NASA high-altitude balloon.

California King
Directed by Eli Akira Kaufman
In Competition
A mattress salesman, who employs faux science to get female customers into bed, falls for a skeptical insomniac who knows her science better than her heart.

Chip Kick
Directed by Volker Hahn
In Competition
A cute and friendly robot introduces the audience to the phenomena known as the “Mexican Wave” displayed at soccer (football) matches with the help of his nerdy scientific creator.

Conflation
Directed by Stephanie Joalland
In Competition
A supernatural thriller where physics and a little girl’s uncanny intuitions mix with a haunting Joshua tree in the desert…

Conservation
Directed by Ian Harnarine
In Competition
When Professors Volt announces to the world that he has made a profound discovery, it is up to Seeta, Volt’s former student, to give him what he really deserves.

CosmicConnexion
Directed by Denis Van Waerebek
Pariscience Selection
Green, red, viscous, hairy… How to classify in a sensible order all these sub-species? For the first time, we present a scientific classification of the living aliens…

Fermat’s Room
Directed by Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña
Showcase
The walls are closing in-literally-on four brainiac mathematicians with shadowy pasts in this übertense debut.

The First Men in Space
Directed by Daniel Muenter
Pariscience Selection
Follow Joseph Kittinger Jr. and David Simmons the first human beings to ever soar above the atmosphere of our planet…

The First Vampire
Directed by Jason Todd Ipson
In Competition
The story of The First Vampire centers on the true origins of the Western Vampire Legend–14th-century Scandinavia.

A Fruit Fly in New York
Directed by Alexis Gambis
In Competition
A young graduate student explores the connections between fruit flies, science and New York city.

Great Genius and Profound Stupidity
Directed by Benita Raphan
In Competition
This experimental documentary explores the philosophical ideas of genius and stupidity…

In Vivid Detail
Directed by Dara Bratt
In Competition
A new relationship is put to the test when a beautiful woman falls for an architect who suffers from face blindness.

Jornada del Muerto
Directed by Matthaeus Szumanski
In Competition
A scientist wracked by guilt over the destruction and death the atomic bomb imagines that he has found a poor family living in a shack near the test site’s ground zero.

L2i
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Pariscience Selection
L2i is a presentation of the national center of scientific research (CNRS) in France.

Lone
Directed by Andrew Nowrojee
In Competition
In the wake of global devastation a lone survivor is running out of time. As he desperately searches for survivors will he find hope in a junk pile?

Muerto Canyon
Directed by Jen Peel
In Competition
A Native American doctor and a Center for Disease Control researcher work to find the link and cause of a debilitating and sometimes fatal virus.

Paprika
Directed by Kati Anguelov
In Competition
Paprika celebrates the Hungarian scientist Albert Szent-Györgyi, who received the Nobel Prize in 1937 for his work in the isolation of vitamin C.

The Principle of Relativity…according to Bernadette
Directed by Laurence Arcadias
In Competition
Bernadette explains Einstein’s theory of relativity…with a french twist…

Seance of Maths
Directed by Andrew Gori & Jackie Goss
In Competition
A man in brown overalls…a woman with a suitcase full of random seance materials and a saw…strangers or next of kin?

Semmelweis
Directed by Jim Berry
In Competition
A tragic story, pitting common sense against the entrenched ignorance that drove physician Ignaz Semmelweis to a nervous breakdown.

Senate Heaing on Coral Bleaching
Directed by Randy Olson
In Competition
A scientist tries to make his case to a couple of senators with their own “expert.”

Sleep Dealer
Directed by Alex Rivera
Showcase
Set in a near-future where virtual labor and a global digital network rule, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.

Teratoma
Directed by Rupert Glasson
In Competition
Teratoma is an extravagant, morbid fantasy of death-by-cancer, niftily blending live-action and animation.

Thirteen Ways To Die At Home
Directed by Lee Lanier
In Competition
Poison Toads. Missing Socks. Carpet Leeches??? So many ways to die at home…

Transgressions
Directed by Valerie Weiss
In Competition
Imagine living in a world in which the smallest step over the law could get you killed. Not only killed, but tortured first, and on TV. Take a glimpse into such a world…

The Un-Gone
Directed by Simon Bovey
In Competition
Plunge into a world in the not so distant future in which travel is instantaneous through digital transportation…What happens when the machine goes awry?

The Visionary
Directed by Joel Shapiro
In Competition
Nikola Tesla finds himself inside the sort of fantasia in which Fellini might feel at home. It’s not just Tesla the genius that intrigues Shapiro, but Tesla the showman.

The Wormhole
Directed by Jessica Sharzer
In Competition
A troubled boy searches for a wormhole to travel back in time and restore his family.

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