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6th Global Science Film Festival 2024

Video
2024
Festival

Festival Opening – BERN
Friday, 8 November 2024, 6pm
cineClub, Laupenstrasse 17, 3008 Bern

Opening of the festival with the organizers and Hugues Abriel, Vice Rector for Research and Innovation, University of Bern), followed by short films by scientists and the documentary film ETERNAL YOU: An exploration of an industry that uses artificial intelligence to bring immortality to loved ones who have died.
Followed by a discussion with filmmakers & researchers on art historical, palliative care and legal perspectives.
 
Limited number of free tickets for students: reserve online and show proof at the cinema. Available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Normal ticket price 10 CHF, reduced 8 CH
 

The 6th Global Science Film Festival 
From November 7-10 in Bern, Zurich, Basel, and Lugano, we will be showing feature films, documentaries, and short films related to current scientific debates, followed by discussions with the filmmakers and experts from research and other fields of practice. The short film sessions provide the stage for filmmaking by postdocs and PhDs.
Learn more: www.sciencefilm.ch

Full program of all locations: PDF
 
The festival is supported by the University of Bern and other partners. Bern will host a short version of the festival in 2024 and the full version in 2025.
Organized by the mLAB of the Institute of Geography

ETERNAL YOU

 
GENRE: Documentary
COUNTRIES: Germany, United States 
YEAR: 2024
LENGTH: 87 min
LANGUAGES: English 
SUBTITLES: German

 

What if you never had to say goodbye to a loved one? What if death and grief were concerns of the past? Filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck pose these questions as they explore one of the latest significant breakthroughs in AI technology – open language models that enable realistic conversations with virtual reality avatars built using characteristics of the deceased. Essentially bringing the dead to digital life. Users, technology experts, journalists, programmers, and psychologists create a comprehensive and analytical report that reveals this new technology’s far-reaching and often disturbing implications. 

ETERNAL YOU premiered at Sundance Film Festival, as did the filmmakers’ debut film “The Cleaners”, which was also nominated for an Emmy Award and won the prestigious Prix Europa and the Grimme Audience Award.

 

Scientists-as-Filmmakers short films

Dear… (Documentary/Fiction, Switzerland-Ukraine 2024, 4 min., Scientists-as-Filmmakers: Anastasiia Shevchenko (University of Lausanne), Antonina Skydanova (University of Friboug), Nataliya Borys (University of Geneva), Venus Marie Rojas (University of Basel))
Am Puls der Bienen (Documentary, Switzerland 2024, 4 min., Scientists-as-Filmmakers: Jöri Hoppler (University of Bern), Victoria Junquera (University of Bern)
 
 

Panel discussion

Followed by a discussion between film director Moritz Riesewick with University of Bern researchers: 

Dr. Yvonne Schweizer (digital image cultures, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art History)
Dr. Maud Maessen (palliative care and end-of-life studies, University Centre for Palliative Care at Inselspital Bern)
Dr. Yannick Minnig (inheritance and private law, Faculty of Law)

Moderation: Aida Suljičić (Expert in documentary film & cultural policy)




 
Organization team and festival management Bern: 
Susan Thieme, Mirko Winkel, Sophia Schatz