Radboudumc experts join the InScience film festival March 16 to 19 at LUX in Nijmegen

Film festival InScience is back! From March 16 to 19, this film festival takes place in Nijmegen. The main location of the festival is LUX, but there are also special screenings at special locations. As every year, experts from the Radboudumc will collaborate on the various programs.

For four days, InScience screens the most impressive science films released in the past year and a half, 55 titles in all. Films that shed life-size light on current challenges, from climate crisis to viral pandemic and from trauma to transphobia. Films that ask questions. Films that celebrate wonder.  

Each screening will be a unique experience through the Talks, in which filmmakers, top scientists and leading thinkers will explore the films in greater depth: in lectures or discussions, workshops, performances and role plays. Experts and researchers from the Radboudumc also participate in various program components.

Kipchoge: The Last Milestone – with Thijs Eijsvogels (i.c.w. Stevensloop) 

Will Eliud Kipchoge manage to pull off the impossible? The Kenyan marathon runner dreams of running a marathon in less than two hours, which no one has ever managed. In this documentary Kipchoge: The Last Milestone, we follow him as he prepares for this superhuman feat and see how groundbreaking science is helping him achieve it.  

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Eliud Kipchoge took on the ultimate running experiment with his record attempt. During the Stevensloop run this weekend, many will also test their personal limits. Are the world's top runners superhuman or is this level something within reach for all of us with the right training? How do we push our physical limits? After the screening, we will join exercise physiologist Thijs Eijsvogels and a top athlete in a conversation about the limits of the human body. 

Time & date: Friday, 17 March 19:15 - 21:15 hours

The Human Trial – with Merel Smit

The Human Trial shows how much blood, sweat and tears go into scientific research. The documentary follows a groundbreaking clinical trial to find a cure for diabetes and interweaves the gripping stories of patients with scientists' passionate quest for a medical breakthrough.  

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What do you do the moment a pandemic breaks out and test subjects are needed to test a newly developed vaccine? And if you are such a test subject: what do you do when your research is not yet complete, but you receive an invitation to receive an already working vaccine through the regular vaccination program? Physician-researcher Merel Smit, who researched the safety of a new corona vaccine, speaks with Martin Enserink, science journalist and participant in a corona vaccine study, about the considerations and dilemmas.  

Time & date: Friday, 17 March, 22:00 - 00:00 hours

How to survive a pandemic - with Alma Tostmann

How was it possible that vaccines against the coronavirus were developed so quickly? Director David France dives deep into the story behind this superhuman feat, in the documentary How to survive a pandemic, which feels like a race against time - and sometimes politics.

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One thing that the pandemic (and this documentary) has made clear is that when it comes to health, we are not all equal yet. Information did not always reach the most vulnerable. There were more infections among African-American communities - many of whom did not have the privilege of working from home or isolation. Most vaccines went to Western countries. How did it fare in the Netherlands? Time for a review with epidemiologist Alma Tostmann: what did the corona pandemic teach us about health inequality in the Netherlands?

Time & date: Saturday, 18 March, 12:30 - 14:40 hrs.

De Human Corporis Fabrica – with Bastiaan Klarenbeek, Mandy van den Bosch and Gertie van der Molen

Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened the human body to science for the first time. De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens up the human body on the silver screen, with micro cameras reaching places in our bodies that previously could not be captured. Our human flesh turns out to be an imposing landscape, existing through the gaze and attention of others. This film, from the makers of Leviathan (2012), offers a challenging, groundbreaking look at and within our own bodies.  

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Prior to the film, we engage in a conversation with a team that knows the human body inside and out: gastrointestinal and oncological surgeon Bastiaan Klarenbeek and surgical assistants Mandy van den Bosch and Gertie van der Molen of the Radboudumc share their love for all the wonders of the body. How do you relate to the body when you are at the operating table so often? And what does the film look like through the eyes of an operating team?

Time & date: Saturday, 18 March 18:45 - 21:15 hours

Research: do you suffer from dry mouth?

Several surveys will also take place during InScience. Do you ever suffer from dry mouth? Are you a stress chicken or a cool frog? Researchers Marjolein Bulthuis, Victor Madariaga and Stephanie van Leeuwen (postdoc) of the Department of Dentistry are investigating the effect of stress on saliva production. Did you know that saliva is very important for keeping your mouth healthy, speaking and swallowing? The researchers want to know if emotions have a strong influence on this. And for this, they need you. If you are 16 or older and healthy, you are welcome.

Time & date: Saturday, 18 March 13:00 -17:00 hours in De Mariënburg Library (Mariënburg 29).

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