The Science Film Festival is a celebration of science communication in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America: In cooperation with local partners it promotes science literacy and facilitates awareness of contemporary scientific, technological and environmental issues through international films with accompanying educational activities. The Ministry of Science, Technology and Research is the main local partner of the Goethe-Institut to perform the festival together with other partners such as the Leo Club, the Sri Lankan Academy of Young Scientists, Rupavahini TV and the German Embassy Colombo. The launch in Sri Lanka took place in all 25 districts with more than 650 demonstration sites, reaching more than 120,000 visitors in 2018.
The official Opening of the Science Film Festival will take place in the Goethe-Institute Hall on the 17th October at 10:30 am.
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Opening Film: Checker Tobi and Our Planet's Secret
Checker Tobi's greatest adventure begins on a pirate ship in the middle of the sea, where he finds a message in a bottle containing a riddle. If he's able to solve the riddle, he will reveal our planet's greatest secret. An exciting treasure hunt that brings Tobi across the globe is about to begin! Tobi climbs the crater of a fire-breathing volcano and dives side by side with a sea dragon in the Pacific Ocean. Together with climatologists, Tobi explores the most remote regions of the Arctic just to end up in India. He becomes a Bollywood star in Mumbai just before the monsoon transforms the mega metropolis. In the end Tobi realizes that this whole time the solution of the riddle was right before his eyes.
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