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Festival Programme 2015

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday All

Monday 12.10.

Screening

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Verrückt: Chovat šneky ve Vídni? / The Snail Farmer of Vienna, 4 min / CZE, ENG | Fermentace / Ferment, 7 min / CZE, ENG | Imunologie plic / Immunology of the Lung, 5 min / CZE, ENG | RNA Interference / RNA Interference, 5 min / CZE, ENG | Imunologie sliznice trávicí soustavy / Immunology of the Gut Mucosa, 7 min / CZE, ENG | Čirok z Muddy Pond / Muddy Pond Sorghum, 10 min / CZE, ENG | Farma Sokolí hnízdo – Rampuše / Falcon Nest Farm – Rampuše, 9 min / CZE, ENG | Zemědělství 2020 / Farming 2020, 2 min / CZE, DEU | Projekt pěstování potravin / Growing Food Project, 14 min / CZE, ENG | Farma roku 2014 / Farm of the Year 2014, 6 min / CZE
Screening | 31 min

Meeting Room No. 125
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences
Screening | 20 min

Meeting Room No. 125
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences
Screening | 88 min

Lecture Room Z1
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Screening | 27 min

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Other

Lecture Room Z1
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Exhibition opening, an invitation to thematic days of the FES, “Farmer with no Land”. We invite you to the opening of a photo exhibition documenting the story of KPZ CooLAND: community supported agriculture. It’s not just about vegetables! It’s primarily about understanding the principles of environmental farming, the joy of good food, about Prague citizens working in the field, supporting harmonic landscape and wild parties. KPZ is all of that!
Screening | 56 min

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Screening | 46 min

Lecture Room Z1
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Screening | 52 min

Round Hall
CULS Round Hall
Discussion on the film: RNDr. Kateřina Hortová, Ph.D. (Head of the Reproduction Laboratory in the Biotechnology Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences ), prof. Ing. Jaroslav Petr, DrSc. (Department of Biology of Reproduction at the Institute of Animal Science and teacher at CULS), Mgr. Alexandra Schneider Hrouzková (psychologist and somatic coach)

Tuesday 13.10.

Screening

Meeting Room No. 125
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences
Zelený obývák / The green living Room, 7 min / CZE, ENG | Zářící tma: Hotaru v noci / Brilliant Darkness: Hotaru in the Night, 12 min / CZE, ENG  | Cesta orlosupa bradatého do Grands Causses a jeho vypuštění do volné přírody / Bearded Vulture Release in Grands Causses, 15 min / CZE, ENG  | Bylo, nebylo na stromě / Once Upon a Tree, 15 min / CZE, ENG | Minuty z Krkonoš / Minutes from Krkonose 10 min / CZE
Screening | 35 min

Meeting Room No. 125
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences
Discussion on the film: prof.Ing. Milan Lstibůrek, MSc. PhD., Prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Opatrný, CSc. prof. Ing. Vilém Podrázský, CSc.
Screening | 50 min

Room 209
Faculty of Economics and Management
Screening | 52 min

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Screening | 52 min

Room SIC 236a
Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences
Screening | 88 min

Room 209
Faculty of Economics and Management
Screening | 52 min

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Screening | 46 min

Meeting Room No. 125
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences
Screening | 52 min

Round Hall
CULS Round Hall
Screening

Round Hall
CULS Round Hall
Ruksak na vodu Paul / Waterbackpack PAUL, 7 min / CZE, GER | Zemědělství 2020 / Farming 2020, 2 min/ CZE, GER | Fermentace /  Ferment, 7 min / CZE, ENG | Jídlo s.r.o. – Slivovice / Food Ltd., 16 min / CZE | Slovník potravinového hrdiny / Dictionary of a Food Hero, 4 min / CZE, ENG | Zelený obývák / The Green Living Room, 7min / CZE, ENG | Něžné stroje Gentle Machines, 5 min / CZE
Lecture

Room SIC 236a
Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences
Jan Svatoš’s lecture on travellers Osa and Martin Johnson, photos from Kenya (the lecture is in English)
Other

Round Hall
CULS Round Hall
Press conference for the 10th anniversary of the World Ploughing Championship
Screening | 92 min

Lecture Room Z1
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Discussion on the film: director Lisa Heenan and screenwriter Darren Doherty
Screening

Round Hall
CULS Round Hall
Imunologie plic / Immunology of the Lung, 5 min / CZE | Cílení léčiv - metabolismus nádorových buněk / Cancer Cell Metabolism, 6 min / CZE, ENF | Imunologie pokožky / Immunology of the Skin, 7 min / CZE, ENG | RNA Interference / RNA Interference, 5 min / CZE, ENG | Imunologie sliznice trávicí soustavy / Immunology of the Gut Mucosa, 7 min / CZE, ENG | Výzkum rostlin / Plant Research, 5 min CZE / ENG | Biotechnologické klastry: Rostlinná věda v Ghentu ve Flandrech v Belgii / Green Biotech Cluster: Plant Sciences in Gent, Flanders Belgium, 7 min / CZE, ENG | Výzkum roztroušené sklerózy: Geert van Loo - 1. Díl / MS Research by Geert van Loo: Episode 1, 3 min / CZE, ENG | Výzkum roztroušené sklerózy: Geert van Loo - 2. Díl / MS research by Geert van Loo: Episode 2, 9 min / CZE, ENG |
Discussion

Room SIC 236a
Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences
Discussin with Marin Schlossárek (UPOL, Maendeleo). Martin Schlossárek is the head of Maendeleo, an association which supports careful and effective farming methods used by farmers in Tanzania. They are convinced that agriculture is key for maintaining biodiversity.
Screening | 116 min

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Discussion on the film: director Michael Schwarz and producer Edward Gray
Discussion

Room SIC 236a
Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences
Veterinarians without Borders – a discussion with MVDr. David Nejedlo (head of the Liberec Zoo). “Healthy livestock, healthy people” Since its foundation Czech Veterinarians without Borders took on the activities of the project for rabies prevention in pastoral communities around lake Turkana in northern Kenya. In recent years the organisation has launched several other projects related to the Kenyan project as well as other new projects in the Czech Republic.
Discussion

Lecture Room Z1
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Discussion on the day’s topic “Farmer with no land”, hosted by Vratislava Janovská. A talk about the effect agriculture has on landscape with: Tomáš Franěk (podnikatel, zaměstnanec, farmář Jagava Permafarma Veselice), Ing. Miroslav Florián, Ph.D. (ředitel sekce zemědělských vstupů MZe, Vojtěch Sýkora (bio farmář Dobrá farma Máslovice), doc. Ing. Eva Cudlínová, CSc. (vedoucí Katedry regionálního managementu Ekonomické fakulty Jihočeské univerzity)
Other

Room SIC 236a
Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences
17 images of the disappearing world in Africa and today’s life in Seoul – one of the most dynamic metropolises in Asia RNDr. Hynek Adámek (*1962) A geographer, journalist and photographer. Since 2003 an editor for the Czech version of National Geographic. Member of the Living Africa (Živá Afrika) expedition to the equatorial and west Africa in 1994. Co-author of the book with the same title from 1996, together with Jiří Hanzelka and Miroslav Zikmund. In 2000 his Time is Africa’s Gift - Ethiopia (together with Pavel Mikeš) and in 2003 he and Jakub Havel published Iceland – the Harmony of Opposites). In 2010, Czechs in the Antarctic was published.
Screening | 15 min

Room SIC 236a
Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences
Discussion on the film - Mgr. Adéla Obračajová (Zoolog Zoo Ostrava) Diclofenac is a huge threat to vultures in Europe. It is highly toxic for the vulture, it causes accumulation of the uric acid in the body and kidney failure. Death occurs within two days. What’s diclofenac? Where can we find it? And is there an alternative? Yes, there is.
Screening | 52 min

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Screening | 88 min

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Screening | 46 min

Lecture Room Z1
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Screening | 46 min

Meeting Room No. 125
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences
Screening | 26 min

Lecture Room Z1
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Screening | 26 min

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Discussion

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Discussion: The most difficult task horses have been given – becoming wild again. Guests: director Jan Svatoš, Ing. Cyril Neumann (FAFNR, Hippologist), Doc. Ing. Ivan Majzlík, CSc. (FAFNR), RNDr. Evžen Kůs (Prague Zoo), Mgr. Miloslav Jirků, Ph.D.
Other

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
An excursion to CULS Brandejs Farm in Prague. Meeting point in front of FAFNR.
Screening | 48 min

Lecture Room Z1
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Discussion

Klub C
Klub C
DLforum tisk-1As part of a series of academic discussions for the general public, the talk will concentrate on food security, comprehensibility of packaging information, quality marks (KLASA etc), but also on the risks related to selling produce at the farm and support for local production. Guests at the discussion include Ing. Jindřich Fialka, head of the Food Production Department, Czech Ministry of Agriculture, Ing. Hana Střítecká Ph.D., Healthy Food association, Faculty of Military Health Sciences, University of Defence, Roman Vaněk, Prague Culinary Institute, Jan Tuna, Stream.cz.

Thursday 15.10.

Screening | 70 min

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Screening | 26 min

Meeting Room No. 125
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences
Discussion on the film: director Jan Svatoš, prof. RNDr. Petr Koubek, CSc., Mgr. Miroslav Kutal, Ph.D. (Hnutí Duha)
Screening | 45 min

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Screening | 188 min

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Screening | 88 min

Meeting Room No. 125
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences
Screening | 7 min

Room SIC 236a
Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences
Screening | 93 min

Lecture Room Z1
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Discussion

Lecture Room Z1
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Expert discussion on films on the topic of industrial pollution of the environment and the possibilities of its restoration. Guests: doc. Michael Komárek, prof. Jan Vymazal, Dr. Paul Eric Aspholm
Screening | 26 min

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Screening | 46 min

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Lecture

Lecture Room Z1
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Dr. Paul Eric Aspholm’s (Norway, Bioforsk) lecture on The sources of pollution in European polar regions and new methods of tracing their origin
Discussion

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Discussion: Ing. Dalibor Titěra, CSc. (Bee Research Institute) and other guests
Screening | 50 min

Meeting Room No. 125
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences
Screening | 52 min

Lecture Room Z1
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Screening | 18 min

Lecture Room A IV
Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
Other

Balling Hall
National Technical Library
15:00 -18:00 The programme is hosted by Marek Janáč (Vesmír magazine)
Lecture

Balling Hall
National Technical Library
To eat or not to eat? The answer is different for every age, lifestyle and genotype. Or, will geneticists cook for us one day? Prof. RNDr. František Vyskočil, DrSc.
Lecture

Balling Hall
National Technical Library
The role of insulin in the type 1 and type 2 diabetes and how everything can be influenced by the right regimen. RNDr. Lenka Žáková, Ph.D. (UOCHB / Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Lecture

Balling Hall
National Technical Library
Prof. MUDr. Libor Vítek, Ph.D., MBA At the moment we confront an ever growing incidence of diseases of affluence whose common denominators include bad diet, lack of exercise and too much stress. Only few people realise that it is necessary to fight these threats and start with ourselves. The modern times thankfully bring about technological ways to attain this target.

Saturday 17.10.

Screening | 88 min

Balling Hall
National Technical Library
Screening | 92 min

Balling Hall
National Technical Library
Discussion on the film: director Lisa Heenan and screenwriter Darren Doherty

Programme highlights

Monday 12.10. - Sunday 18.10.

Guests: prof. Jiří Balík, režisér a fotograf Jan Svatoš

awards 2015 official selection

LSFF 2015 Awards Ceremony  takes place 14th October 2015 at 5:55 p.m. in Klub C.

Tuesday 13.10.

15:30 Polyfaces, 92 min
17:05 Discussion on the film: director Lisa Heenan and screenwriter Darren Doherty

Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Lecture Room Z1 

Tuesday 13.10.2015

15:30 Theory of everything: Marc van Montagu, 54 min / CZE, ENG
16:30 Lecture: Wim Grunewald (VIB department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghet University, Belgium)

Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Lecture Room A IV

Tuesday 13.10.2015

18:00 In Defense of Food, 116 min / CZE, ENG
Discussion on the film: director Michael Schwarz and producer Edward Gray

Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Lecture Room A IV

LSFF_jidlojeveda_web_main The Life Sciences Film Festival will expand this year with a weekend programme. In cooperation with the National Technical Library and the Dejvice Campus, there will be a “Food, There’s Science to It” afterparty at the weekend of 16th– 18th October. Food will be discussed, the best films on food from this as well as previous LSFFs will be screened and food will be also tasted. The film festival will join the Street Food Festival which will feed you on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th October.