The Science Film Festival is a festival initiated by the Goethe-Institut Thailand in 2005, which features films that communicate science and technology in an entertaining and comprehensible way for children aged 9-14 years, as well as for a wider audience. In cooperation with local partners and the international film industry it promotes science literacy and awareness of scientific, technological and environmental issues through international film and television content with accompanying educational activities. Through this approach, the festival combines education and entertainment and demonstrates that communicating and learning science and technology can be great fun.
The festival is with nearly one million visitors to the largest event of its kind. This year scientific films from all over the world will be shown in 23 countries. For the first time the Film Festival will take place in Sri Lanka: a selection of films will be sent non-commercially from district to district for screenings to pupils and universities, but the Goethe-Institut in Colombo will also be a setting.
“The Anthropocene – Welcome to the age of humans” is the topic 2017. Agriculture, trade, transportation, and industry: As long as humans have existed we have been utilizing and altering our environment. Through selected topics such as urbanization, mobility, nature, evolution, food, and human-machine interaction, the Science Film Festival explores the past, present, and future of humanity.
On October 23 at 7:00 pm the Science Film Festival will open with the screening of “Chasing Coral” from Jeff Orlowski at the Goethe-Institut in Colombo, followed by a Panel Discussion, moderated by the Marine Biologist Nishan Perera. The 90 minutes long documentary is capturing our changing oceans, especially the change of the Coral reefs. Divers, photographers and scientists spent three years with the question why Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. “Chasing Coral” is the result of more than 650 hours underwater, submissions of footage from volunteers from 30 countries, as well as support from more than 500 people from various locations around the world.
Program:
Wednesday, 25.10.2017 at 06:00 p.m.
1. Evolving Al: Blessing or Curse?
2. What Makes us Human: Learning from Chimpanzees
3. Great Human Odyssey
Thursday, 26.10.2017 at 06:00 p.m.
1. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - The Last Universal Genius
2. Brave New World - How Silicon Valley is Shaping our Future?
3. Dynamic Salt
After the opening the films will be screened for schools and universities all over the country.
Sciene Film Festival Islandwide
SFF-Program:
SFF-Program
Back
