The best science documentaries come to Pamplona with #LabMeCrazy! Science Film Festival

Pamplona is once again becoming a meeting point meeting cinema and science with the seventh edition of #LabMeCrazy! Science Film Festival. The quotation, promoted by the University of Navarra Science Museum, offers a selection of scientific documentaries alongside activities designed for all audiences. The festival opened today and will run until February 24, when the submission will take place. 

This year's edition featured 1,658 productions from 112 countries. "The films we screen, as well as the conferences, deal with a variety of highly topical issues, such as artificial intelligence, viruses, rare diseases, and ocean degradation. These are issues that affect our daily lives and make it clear that science is everyone's business," said Bienvenido León, director #LabMeCrazy! Science Film Festival.

From February 16 to 22, some of the festival's finalist documentaries will be screened in their original version with subtitles at 7 p.m. at Golem Baiona. On Monday, February 16, the documentary "Ocean with David Attenborough"is scheduled, taking viewers on a journey that sample there is no place more vital to our survival, more full of life, wonders, and surprises than the ocean. On Wednesday, February 18, it will be the turn of "Noah," which tells the story of a 26-year-old activist who is fighting seven rare and incurable diseases.

On Thursday, the 19th,"The Thinking Game"will be screened, a journey into the heart of DeepMind, one of the world's leading AI laboratories, and on Friday, the 20th, "Blame," which analyzes the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of three scientists who had warned of the arrival of a health crisis. Finally, over the weekend,"Spacewoman,"the story of pioneering astronaut Eileen Collins, will be screened, and on Sunday, the 22nd, "Lions of the Skeleton Coast,"about the story of three orphaned lion cubs struggling to survive in Namibia. After each screening colloquium there will be a brief colloquium with an expert. 

Awards Gala submission

On Tuesday, February 24, at 7 p.m. at the University of Navarra Museum, the submission ceremony will be held, presented by Helena González Burón and Oriol Marimon Garrido, scientists and comedians from "Big Van Ciencia." The ceremony will include monologues on science and live music. The festival will recognize the best documentary or report, television program, video for the web or social media, production made by students, and work by a university or research center. In addition, the award will be presented to the best film on Global Health and the award Passion for Science" award will be presented to Pedro Miguel Echenique, Full Professor Physics and award of Asturias award (1998). 

Tickets for the screenings and the gala can be picked up at the festival's website: www.labmecrazy.org.

In addition to the screenings, there will be three lectures beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, at Civivox Iturrama at 7:00 p.m., with the session "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Examples and Challenges in Cancer and Neurological Diseases" position Rubén Armañanzas, researcher the Institute of data Science data Artificial Intelligence (DATAI) at the University of Navarra. On the 12th, Ignacio López-Goñi, Full Professor Microbiology and director the University of Navarra Science Museum, will give the session"Why do new viruses emerge?" And on the 17th, Gloria González Aseguinolaza, professor at the School Medicine and researcher at Cima of Navarra, will talk about rare diseases. 

In addition to the program open to the public, the festival includes several sessions with university students and professors: on Monday, the 16th, with Toby Nowlan,director producer of "Ocean with David Attenborough," and on the 24th, Pedro Miguel Echenique, Full Professor Physics and award of Asturias award (1998), who will give the lecture sublime usefulness of useless science" as framework the XIII Albareda Lecture. In addition, a screening and colloquium are planned colloquium the Pamplona Penitentiary Center. 

Also, on Saturday the 21st, there will be a family workshop entitled "The Solar System and Eclipses in the Solar System," led by Mónica Ruiz Palacios and aimed at children aged 6 to 12. 

#LabMeCrazy! Science Film Festival is an competition science film competition promoted by the University of Navarra Science Museum, whose goal is goal science goal to society. The festival is made possible thanks to a partnership the Caja Navarra Foundation and is supported by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) / Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, Laboral Kutxa, the SACYR Foundation, the Lilly Foundation, the Government of Navarra, and Sanitas.