Pariscience Festival 2025: 7th year of partnership with the FMSH

The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme is delighted to renew its partnership with the Pariscience International Science Film Festival, organised by the Association Science & Télévision. Since 2005, this free festival has offered an ambitious programme combining scientific rigour, cinematic quality and a commitment to open debate.

For this 7th year of collaboration, the FMSH is strengthening its commitment by supporting Symbiose, a competition for short films made in 48 hours, which fosters dialogue between audiovisual creation and contemporary scientific issues. New for 2025: the Foundation is making its studio/forum available to support the film crews throughout the competition. The films produced will be broadcast on Canal-U, the leading audiovisual platform for higher education and research, run by the FMSH.

Pariscience offers a selection of films exploring a wide range of scientific themes to suit all tastes and appeal to all audiences. The programme is aimed at schoolchildren from primary school through to the final year of secondary school, families, all science and film enthusiasts, and professionals. The festival also reinforces its role as a scientific and cultural mediator through screenings and discussions adapted for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences.

Television documentaries, feature-length and short films, drama, animation, virtual reality films, scientific web videos… Pariscience puts together a programme rich in formats and styles.

Pariscience supports projects by bridging the gap between the worlds of film and television, research and creative arts. With the support of its partners, the festival helps foster new talent and the creation of science films through a range of initiatives.

The FMSH is partnering for the first time with Symbiose, the 48-hour short film competition organised as part of the festival. To mark the occasion, it is making its studio/forum available to host the film crews. Canal-U, the audiovisual platform run by the foundation, is also a partner of the event: the films produced will be broadcast on the platform, thereby helping to showcase the creativity and commitment of young talent to contemporary scientific issues.

→ Find out more

Reflecting current affairs, the Pariscience programme highlights the latest developments and concerns within the scientific community and amongst those who drive it forward. By exploring the major scientific and societal questions of our time, the festival invites the public to engage with the issues of tomorrow through debates held after each screening.

The Pariscience festival is organised by the Science & Télévision association.

Founded in 2001, the AST brings together 120 independent producers working within 53 production companies. These companies produce content across all genres: documentaries for cinema and television, current affairs programmes, feature reports and web documentaries. With the support of the CNC and Procirep, the AST carries out a wide range of initiatives aimed at promoting science programmes on television, facilitating their production and broadcast, encouraging international co-productions, and fostering closer ties between the worlds of broadcasting and research.