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LUMEXPLORE 2021
LUMEXPLORE Scientific and Environmental Exploration Film Festival
Geographers, ethnologists, botanists, archaeologists, entomologists, oceanographers, speleologists, astronauts,… scientists, explorers and adventurers discovering worlds, all of them amaze us through films with astonishing images. Science and research happily rub shoulders with extraordinary human adventures.
Photo exhibitions, workshops, book stands… where you can meet friendly and accessible explorers and scientists.
Lumexplore Grand Prize awarded by the Iris Foundation :
❝ Voyager Probe, On the road to infinity ❞ by Emer REYNOLDS
2017, Prod ARTE, BBC, Crossing the Line, Tangled Bank Studios, ZDF, 2h.
Public Prize:
❝ ULTIMA PATAGONIA 2019 ❞ by Gilles SANTONIO
Prod MC4, Center Terre association
"Surrender to the wild" by Lionel Prado
And here is the new film by Lionel Prado, the first Laureate of the Iris-Terre Sauvage scholarship.
SCREENING of MAY 6 online with the possibility of speaking with the director.
"An immersive film, authentic and without artifice. At the heart of the urgency of life and in the peace of the Savage"
An immersion in total autonomy without any canoeing experience: 25 days on the water on 500km of wild river. A return to the rhythm of nature, in the boreal forest of the Canadian Far North.
"Surrender to the wild" by Lionel Prado
A meeting to question the place of the wild in our modern societies
Discover the film Surrender to the wild during an online screening accompanied by an exchange around the wild with the director Lionel Prado
Meet on Thursday May 6 at 8:00 p.m.
Photographic mission
"Wild Wonders of China"
Taiwan
Taiwan yuhina, Yuhina brunneiceps, among cherry blossoms. Also known as Formosan yuhina. Endemic. Alishan National Scenic Area, Taiwan
Taiwan Collared bush robin or Johnstone's robin (Tarsiger johnstoniae). Endemic. Hehuanshan, Taroko National Park, Taiwan
Taiwan or Formosan sika deer (Cervus nippon taiouanus). Endemic. Kenting National Park, Taiwan
Taiwan yuhina, Yuhina brunneiceps, among cherry blossoms. Also known as Formosan yuhina. Endemic. Alishan National Scenic Area, Taiwan
The 2020 Grand Bivouac festival
the festival was able to take place, admittedly under very restrictive conditions in this pandemic year 2020, but it did take place!
"We are pleased to have seen tears, smiles, sincere, touching, profound words from several thousand spectators welcomed, all wiser, respectful, responsible and understanding of the measures and arrangements implemented ..."
Jean Sébastien Esnault, general delegate of the Grand Bivouac festival
Congratulations to the whole festival team who knew how to achieve with tenacity and inventiveness, special arrangements for the face-to-face version and an innovative digital version!
