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1. The Antikythera Mechanism
Director: Martin Freeth
Year: 2008
Running time: 14:17
Dialogue: English
Country: England
Format: Color / Mini DV
Genre: Documentary - Reality recorded
Competition: Science Documentary

New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it was used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old mechanism demonstrates the extraordinary engineering prowess of the Hellenic world.

2. Ruben Nunez Holokinetism
Director: K-soul Cherix
Year: 2009
Running time: 27:10
Dialogue: French
Country: Switzerland
Format: Color / Mini DV
Genre: Animation, Documentary - Portrait, Video Art
Competition: Science Documentary

HOLOKINETISM: synthesis of art, science & High-Tech. Ruben Nunez is the founder of Kinetism and the Holokinetism. In 1974, he created the first Holokinetic artwork of light, a poetic hologram that has, unlike stained glass, a source of inner light.

3. Naming Pluto
Director: Ginita Jimenez
Year: 2008
Running time: 12:39
Dialogue: English, Spanish
Country: England
Format: Color / DV Cam
Genre: Documentary - Historical, Portrait
Competition: Science Documentary

Naming Pluto explores the story of Venetia Burney, the English 11 year old who named the planet Pluto in 1930. In 2007 on her 89th birthday Venetia sees Pluto for the very first time through a telescope, 77 years after its discovery.

4. The Good Heart Attack
Director: Sean Davidson, Uli Hesse
Year: 2008
Running time: 06:25
Dialogue: English
Country: England
Format: Color / W&B / Mini DV
Genre: Documentary - Reality recorded, Historical
Competition: Science Documentary

The resurrection of dead dogs in Russia in the 1930s. An unstoppable heart in the US half a century later. And now in London a hand-made heart attack. How a strange, paradoxical discovery is helping to save lives...

5. The Evidence: The man who stopped smoking
Director: Martin Freeth
Year: 2009
Running time: 09:54
Dialogue: English
Country: England
Format: Color / Mini DV
Genre: Documentary - Reality recorded
Competition: Science Documentary

Richard Doll was a luminary of clinical research whose case control study, published in the BMJ in 1950, first identified smoking as an important cause of cancer and other diseases. The paper's findings were received with apathy, anger and disbelief.

6. Dr. W : Clash of Titans
Director: MAGOPRODUCTION
Year: 2009
Running time: 04:03
Dialogue: English
Country: Spain
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Animation, Documentary - Reality recorded
Competition: Science Documentary

Dr. W - His name is Woody Bonepecker and he is a professional mystery solver, deepness investigator and truth digger.

Total Running Time:
01:14:28
Countries
England466.7%
Switzerland116.7%
Spain116.7%
Dialogue Languages
English583.3%
French116.7%
Spanish116.7%
Year of Production
2008350.0%
2009350.0%