Climate Change: The Brain Paradox

We have never been so aware of the risk of collapse due to climate change. And yet, it seems we are unable to make the collective change the situation seems to demand.

How can we explain our collective inertia in the face of the ongoing environmental crisis? Why can’t our brain process global warming?
This scientific investigation decodes the behavioural mechanisms which explain this collective "schizophrenia" through eye-opening experiences.
With a comprehensible approach, the latest advances in neuroscience, behavioural psychology and anthropology will reveal the surprising cognitive bias, contradictions, and fears we harbor when it comes to changing our lifestyles, and may even help us to overcome them.

director: Raphaël Hitier
co-written with: Sylvie Deleule 
dop France: Guillaume Bression
dop UK: Yoann Desmoyers-Davis
dop USA: Edward Bally
editor: Amandine Stelletta
animations: Sylvain Cappelletto
original music: Olivier Fuchs
production company: Un Film à La Patte / Arte France
distributor: Arte / ZED
duration: 1x52'
format: HD / FX9 / Canon L Series zooms

Nomination for the "Prix Tournesol", Switzerland, 2023
Official selection Festival du Film Vert Switzerland, 2023
Official selection Brussels Scientific Film Festival, 2023
Official selection Green Screen Environmental Film Festival, 2022
Official selection Festival du Film Scientifique, Montpellier, 2022
Official selection Raw Science Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2022
Grand Prix Festival IFF Ekotopfilm - Envirofilm, Bratislava, 2022
Official selection18th édition du Festival International du Film Scientifique Pariscience en sélection Scolaire - Compétition Lycéens, 2022
Film de Science Award 12th édition of the Festival International du Film d’Environnement FReDD, Toulouse, 2022