OPENING CEREMONY OF THE FESTIVAL AND AWARD CEREMONY OF THE 2007 EDITION
Teatro Dal Verme, Via San Giovanni sul Muro 2

FROM THE EARTH TO THE SKY: SPACE ESPLORATION THROUGH HUMAN EXPERIENCE, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH, STUDYING AND RESPECTING THE ENVIRONMENT

9:30 am - Teatro Dal Verme, Via San Giovanni sul Muro 2

1. In the Shadow of the Moon(*)
   UK, 2007, 96 min
2. Our Country is on the Path to the Space (*)
   Italy, 2007, 7 min
3. Esperia Mission: Italians at NASA(*)
   Italy, 2007, 25 min

With:

Roberto Vittori (Astronaut)
Giovanni F. Bignami (Italian Space Agency - President)

Chairman:
Giosuè Boetto Cohen (Scientific Journalist)

2:30 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

1. Health for Sale(*)
   Italy, 2007, 52 min
2. The Enigma Alzheimer(*)
   Germany, 2007, 43 min
3. Ruth(*)
   UK, 2006, 31 min
4. Kitchen Chemistry – Crazy Chemistry(*)
   Ireland, 2007, 3 min
5. Race for the Heart(*)
   Germany, 2007, 45 min
6. The Republic of Dreams(*)
   Italy, 2007, 29 min
7. Tastes and Colours(*)
   Belgium, 2006, 29 min
8. There’s a Cockroach in my Cupboard(*)
   France, 2006, 51 min

9:30 am - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

PHYSICS: RESEARCHES ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE MATTER AND THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE

1. Time Limits(*)
   Austria, 2007, 50 min
2. The Atom Smashers(*)
   USA, 2008, 85 min

2:30 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY, AERONAUTICS AND MATHEMATICS

1. G. Eiffel – Science is defying the wind(*)
   Italy, 2007, 45 min
2. The First Men In Space(*)
   Germany, 2007, 52 min
3. Blow-up – Images from the Nanoworld(*)
   Italia, 2007, 13 min
4. Star Gadgets(*)
   Ireland, 2007, 5 min
5. Doctor Ice(*)
   Italy, 2008, 58 min
6. Flatland, the Film(*)
   USA, 2007, 100 min

9:15 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

1. Staub di Hartmut Bitomsky
   Germany, 2007, 90 min

9:30 am - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

1. Going North - Escapes from the Global Warming(*)
   Italy, 2008, 51 min
2. Waste = Food(*)
   Netherlands, 2006, 49 min
3. The Investigators – Renewable Energies(*)
   Ireland, 2007, 26 min

2:30 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

NATURAL SCIENCES

1. First Flower(*)
   USA, 2007, 57 min
2. The Naturalist Emperor(*)
   Italy, 2007, 28 min
3. In the Beginning was the Mud(*)
   France, 2006, 56 min
4. The Italian Cave Salamander Ghost within the Fog(*)
   Repubblica di San Marino, 2008, 18 min
5. The two Lumberjacks(*)
   Italy, 2007, 3 min
6. Four Seasons and More... Beautiful Chemistry and Physics in Microscale(*)
   Germany, 2006, 3 min
7. Unbelievable(*)
   Italy, 2006, 6 min
8. Searching for the Blue Whale(*)
   Chile, 2007, 26 min
9. Climate Change: Spanish Scientists in the Arctic(*)
   Spain, 2007, 39 min

9:15 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

1. The Red Tent (Krasnaya palatka), Mikhail Kalatozov
   Italy/USA, 1969, 158 min

9:30 am - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

BIOLOGY AND GENETICS

1. Understanding the Book of Life (*)
   Canada, 2007, 30 min
2. The Man with the Golden Cells(*)
   France, 2007, 53 min

2:30 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

1. Like Gloves Filled With Sand
   Germany, 2006, 76 min
2. Some New Tricks with DNA
   Canada, 2007, 30 min
3. Living without chemistry?(*)
   Italy, 2007, 7 min
   
4. The Fabulous Fauna of the Islands
   Italy, 2006, 24 min
5. The Macro and Micro World of Aedes Aegypti Mosquitos
   Brasil, 2005, 12 min
6. Behind the Things(*)
   Italy, 2007, 6 min
7. Red Cod – A Submerged Stockpile(*)
   Italy, 2006, 32 min
8. The Sea Level Changes in the Mediterranean(*)
   Italy, 2007, 24 min
9. Futuris - A Maasailand Dream: When Sun provides Safer Water(*)
   France, 2007, 9 min
10. Some Chemistry Experiments in the Classroom(*)
    Switzerland, 2006, 8 min

9:15 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

1. The Last Trapper, Nicolas Vanier
   France, 2003, 94 min

9:30 am - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

GEOLOGY AND NATURAL SCIENCES

1. The Perfect Eruption – Etna 2002-2003(*)
   Italy, 2006, 29 min
2. In the Beginning was the Mud(*)
   France, 2006, 56 min

2:30 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

EARTH AND SKY EXPLORATION

1. Alone in the Desert
   Germany, 2007, 44 min
2. Past Through Future of Mars
   Spain, 2006, 56 min
3. ATV: a Very Special Delivery(*)
   Netherlands, 2008, 6 min
4. Calling All Aliens - Search in Space
   Germany, 2007, 52 min
5. Beyond our Sky(*)
   Italy, 2007, 6 min
6. Space Hackers
   Italy, 2007, 53 min
7. Icarus Dream
   Italy, 2007, 34 min

9:15 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

1. The Oil Route, Bernardo Bertolucci
   Italy, 1967, 135 min

2:30 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

1. The Sinister Masters of the Internet
   Germany, 2006, 43 min
2. Library on Ice
   Germany, 2007, 44 min
3. The River of a Thousand Engravings
   France, 2007, 52 min

5:00 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

1. South, Frank Hurley
   Germany, 1919, silent, 81 min
   With musical accompaniment

7:00 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

1. Powaqqatsi, Godfrey Reggio
   USA, 1988, 99 min

9:15 pm- Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

1. The Frozen North, Edward F. Cline
   USA, 1922, silent, 17 min
   With piano accompaniment
2. Nanook of the North, Robert J. Flaherty
   USA, 1922, silent, 55 min
   With piano accompaniment

2:30 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

1. The Animals' Alphabet
   Italy, 2007, 16 min
2. Deep Blue, Andy Byatt
   UK, 2003, 83 min
3. Dandelion, Bionics – Technology from Nature
   Germania, 2007, 24 min

5:00 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

1. Naqoyqatsi, Godfrey Reggio
   USA, 2002, 89 min

7:00 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

1. Staub, Hartmut Bitomsky
   Germany, 2007, 90 min

9:15 pm - Spazio Oberdan, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2

1. Anima Mundi, Godfrey Reggio
   USA, 1992, 28 min
2. Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio
   USA, 1982, 80 min

8:00 pm - MUSEO CIVICO DI STORIA NATURALE, C.so Venezia 55

1. Amazing Monsieur Fabre, Henry Diamant-Berger
   France, 1951, 85 min

1. Following in Monsieur Fabre’s footsteps, Jêrome Diamant-Berger
   2007

With:

Jêrome Diamant-Berger (author and director)
Carlo Pesarini (entomologist, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale)