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Marcel Barelli is an animation filmmaker. He attended the Haute école d’art et de design - Genève, cinema department. He develops all his projects around animals and nature. His short films have been selected in hundreds of international film festivals and won numerous awards around the world. 

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Among the different species that inhabit our planet, one stands out from the others by its power and its impact on ecosystems. It is the Autosaurus Rex.

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Tatiana Keller (Drozhzhova) is a space scientist and film director. She has a PhD degree in  physics and graduated from Cinematography University (VGIK).  She was working in Nicolas Thomas research group in Bern University when she got an idea to make an outreach series about CaSSIS - Martian orbit camera, and the mysteries of Mars.

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CaSSIS is a high-resolution color stereo camera in Mars orbit and is making remarkable images of the Red planet. What mysteries has it revealed today? Who left these dark curly tracks on Mars? Are there giant worms or devils? Together with Detective Nick and CaSSIS camera we will demystify the mysteries of Red Planet. 

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Lorenzo Gesuita is a scientist by trade and a storyteller by vocation, with a long experience as art director and producer of theatrical shows. He obtained his M.Sc. in biology from the University of Milano Bicocca and his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Zurich. "The Beautiful Brain" is his first documentary. 

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“The Beautiful Brain” is a documentary web series that breaks down borders between neuroscience and art. Five episodes retrace in a simple, but visually effective way, five key steps of brain development using awe-inspiring masterpieces of art as analogies. 

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Carina Doll, Sabine Hoffmann and Lisa Deutsch are researchers and former leaders of the inter- and transdisciplinary research program Wings and Water Hub at Eawag. They work at the interface of different disciplines, above all social sciences and engineering, and also aim to integrate knowledge across science, policy and practice to create a more holistic understanding and robust solutions to current sustainability challenges.

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What does sustainable neighbourhood planning, a urine fertiliser and a traditional Swiss Apéro have in common? Find out in a short inter- and transdisciplinary film on the potential of resource-oriented urban water management.

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Giovan Peyrotty is a filmmaker and researcher in geosciences. His various scientific projects led him to travel around the world and It is through his fieldwork experiences that he found the inspiration to produce scientific documentaries. 

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This short documentary follows a team of volcanologists from the University of Geneva as they head to the 2021 Cumbre Vieja Eruption on the Island of La Palma, Spain. The scientists explain how investigating the mineral and glass content of the fossil and current lava will offer better insight into how eruptions of this type evolve. 

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Catherine De Wolf is a professor at the ETH. She is a time-traveler of the built environment who believes creativity lies in the art of connecting – connecting the future with the past through the reuse of buildings and their materials & connecting science with society through film and other digital technologies.

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How can we bring together two worlds that are often too distinct: low-impact construction and digital innovation? Exploring digital technologies, students learn about circular construction (e.g., reuse) hands-on through the disassembly of an entire building to the fabrication of a new one solely with the reused materials.  

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Benjamin Keenan is an interdisciplinary biogeochemist interested in using insights from the past to inform responses to contemporary issues, such as anthropogenic climate change.  

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The artwork is composed of a computer-generated environment which visually expresses the responses by the ancient Maya population to climate change based on real geochemical data from a lake adjacent to the archaeological site of Itzan – provoking viewers to imagine distant timescales and complex patterns of human and non-human activity. 

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Vanja Victor Kabir Tognola after being exposed to high doses of film and TV, he falls in love with the cinematic language. Being an idiom intuitive to understand, but quite hard to speak, in 2016 he decides to study Film to improve his fluency, getting in 2021 the Bachelor of Arts in Film at the ZHdK.

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Anna, Francesco, and the eight years old Giorgio can't afford a fancy holiday. Social pressure makes them fake a Bahamas vacation through photoshopped posts on social media. The deluge of likes/comments fuel an all-consuming dopamine rush.