CineGlobe International Film Festival at CERN 2019 – we were transformed, we transcended!

That’s it! The 9th edition of CineGlobe is over. The outdoor screen has been packed away, the film-makers have gone home, and the VR headsets are happily back in their charging stations. Between our 65 short films inspired by science from 23 countries, 4 feature films, an awards ceremony, virtual reality experiences, hands-on games with old-school moving images (zoetrope, praxinoscope and the Moviola projector) and workshops on the principles of photography and stop-motion animation, we’re excited to announce we had an attendance of over 2000 interacting with science and cinema at CERN!

Our theme “Transformation/Transcendence” shone through, as many of you told us you took away new ideas about how science and cinema interact in your lives. We would like to take a moment thank everyone who attended the festival and those who made it possible in the first place, including CERN, our partners and sponsors, and our amazing team of dedicated volunteers.

In case you missed our awards ceremony, we have the pleasure to announce the following awards:

Audience Award for Fiction: The Lost Ones (Les Egarés), by Elisabeth Silveiro, Maëlle Grand Bossi, Carmen Maria Castillejo, France

Audience Award for Documentary: Happy Android, by Jaina Kalifa, Australia

Jury Award for Best Documentary: Dust, by Jacob Radej, Poland
Jury Award for Best fiction film: The Common Good, by Andreas Westerberg, Finland
Jury Award for Best youth film: Una Idea, by Juan Paulín, Mexico

Special Jury Award: Best Friend, by Nicholas Olivieri, Shen Yi, Juliana De Lucca, Varun Nair, David Feliu, France

IdeaSquare Innovation Prize: Una Idea, by Juan Paulín, Mexico

Thanks to our jury for their hard work:
Mark Levinson, director of The Bit Player and Particle Fever
Clara Nellist, Physicist and Outreach Coordinator for the ATLAS Experiment
Claudia Lehmann, Filmmaker and member of Eye on Science
Robbie I’Anson Price, Scientist, filmmaker, and producer of the Exposure Science Film Hackathon
Santeri Palomaki represented IdeaSquare for the Innovation Prize

To support our festival and help us keep it free of charge to everyone, you can still donate online.

But wait, there’s more…

The CineGlobe film festival may be over for 2019, but we’ll be back soon – our Cinema Caravan will be at the Fête Nationale in Parc de la Grange in Geneva on the first of August, and we’ll be announcing other autumn events soon!