Program guide

Your digital twin knows everything about you: lab results, sleep patterns, steps taken, genetic information. It simulates the progression of diseases, recommends treatments, and calculates risks. But who actually decides what data it collects and who is allowed to access it? Your primary care physician’s office, your health insurance provider, or your employer?

As traditional broadcasting shifts, YouTube has evolved into an essential destination for television and documentary producers seeking both new revenue streams and global reach. Nils Franck, Managing Director at Little Dot Studios Germany, joins Adam Gee in conversation to explore how production companies and producers can breathe new life into existing TV catalogues whilst also discussing the shift toward platform-native, digital-first originals. They will unpack the vast creative and financial opportunities of the platform, while offering a clear-eyed look at the algorithm dynamics, monetisation hurdles, and rights-management pitfalls that can come with it.

A workshop with the psychologist Professor Eva Asselmann on how to stay resilient and effective in times of change. 

Collective Body is an interactive, virtual reality experience that invites us to meet ourselves and each other through movement.

When 8-year-old Deaf Ron fears his first camping trip, his mother’s story of Eddie the Camper comes to life, and together, you and Ron connect through sign language.

Breathe life into your environment through the power of your gaze.

Immerse yourself in a world that’s closer to us than we think.

Based on her own experience with robot-assisted abdominal surgery, Rajotte’s piece involves an operation conducted by the medical robot Da Vinci, and invites us on a fanciful voyage to the heart of an imaginary patient’s body.

Can you be more empathetic than a machine?

Collective Body is an interactive, virtual reality experience that invites us to meet ourselves and each other through movement.

When 8-year-old Deaf Ron fears his first camping trip, his mother’s story of Eddie the Camper comes to life, and together, you and Ron connect through sign language.

Where are you feeling? In the virtual reality experience Soul Paint, you use the language of art to explore and express your feelings.

You're on the move and need a break: Have a seat.

Breathe life into your environment through the power of your gaze.

Immerse yourself in a world that’s closer to us than we think.

What do orangutans, reindeer, and penguins actually have to do with our lives? Hannah Emde travels the world working to protect endangered animals. In her talk, the host of “Terra X: Fascination Earth” takes the audience on a journey through our planet’s wild nature.

Who shapes the city—and who shapes change? A stroll through Halle opens up new perspectives on familiar places. This 90-minute walk through the city examens structural change from the perspective of youths. 

Protecting our environment is not just an exercise for plants and animals, it translates directly to protecting ourselves, because Planetary Health is Public Health. But currently, planet Earth is well outside of being a safe operating space for humanity. 

Millions suffer from ME/CFS and post-infectious syndromes like Long COVID, yet medicine continues to turn a blind eye—CHRONICALLY IGNORED investigates why this ongoing crisis has been overlooked for decades, and how the pandemic only intensified the neglect.

A captivating group portrait of people who hear voices undergoing a revolutionary treatment: a psychiatrist invites the voices themselves to speak, unraveling their secrets. Who are they? Why are they so hostile? What do they actually want? 

Immortelle is an atmospheric and figurative audiovisual performance illustrating the flights and falls of psychological endurance. Featuring a cathartic flux of sonic and visual fragments, this unpredictable piece opens a door onto how a mind in internal turmoil redefines the outside world.

Rita is dead. What remains are cassettes, letters, postcards, and the traces of five lives that underwent fundamental changes in the 1990s. Through fictional biographies, the story takes us back to a time when so much was possible and so little was certain.

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Collective Body is an interactive, virtual reality experience that invites us to meet ourselves and each other through movement.

When 8-year-old Deaf Ron fears his first camping trip, his mother’s story of Eddie the Camper comes to life, and together, you and Ron connect through sign language.

You're on the move and need a break: Have a seat.

Breathe life into your environment through the power of your gaze.

Immerse yourself in a world that’s closer to us than we think.

Whether it's the 5am Club, sleep-tracking apps, or dietary supplements: constantly optimizing sleep is all the rage. But from a scientific perspective, what really works—and what doesn't?

With all the promises of miracles and social media trends around, it's hard to separate fact from fiction. This can be costly, and in the worst case, even dangerous.

ME/CFS patients are fighting for visibility and for their lives: For years, those affected were let down by policymakers and the healthcare system. Now, research is gaining momentum—too late for some, but others still have hope.

This is about much more than just fitness: it’s about loneliness, belonging, desire, and the longing for a different, better life.

Who are we when everything changes? With scientific precision and personal openness, filmmaker Louise Unmack Kjeldsen embarks on an emotional journey into the mystery of menopause. She meets leading researchers and, together with women from around the world who are experiencing severe menopausal symptoms, openly shares their stories and experiences.

As dementia erodes a woman's ability to communicate her inner life, her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interest, navigating love and the fragile boundaries between care, protection, and autonomy.

The film follows the indomitable, 83-year-old Dr. Sujoy Guha, in India, the California-based team of Elaine Lissner and L.R. Fox, as well as Kevin Eisenfrats in Virginia, on a quest to successfully launch the first reversible male contraceptive, the first of its kind since the modern condom, invented 200 years ago.

Collective Body is an interactive, virtual reality experience that invites us to meet ourselves and each other through movement.

When 8-year-old Deaf Ron fears his first camping trip, his mother’s story of Eddie the Camper comes to life, and together, you and Ron connect through sign language.

Breathe life into your environment through the power of your gaze.

Immerse yourself in a world that’s closer to us than we think.

Obesity is a complex issue with many facets. Three short lectures will explore the topic from medical, social, and psychological perspectives.

Hearts are being grown in pigs to save human lives—blurring the boundaries between the two species. Could this be the impetus for a fundamental change in the relationship between humans and pigs?

Finitude does not mean only death. It manifests itself in many transitions throughout life. How do we relate to what is ending and to what comes next?

Based on her own experience with robot-assisted abdominal surgery, Rajotte’s piece involves an operation conducted by the medical robot Da Vinci, and invites us on a fanciful voyage to the heart of an imaginary patient’s body.

Can you be more empathetic than a machine?

Collective Body is an interactive, virtual reality experience that invites us to meet ourselves and each other through movement.

When 8-year-old Deaf Ron fears his first camping trip, his mother’s story of Eddie the Camper comes to life, and together, you and Ron connect through sign language.

Tucked in a wild garden inside a corporate building, a small bird flutters.  Like a collective Tamagotchi, Empathy Creatures explores empathy between species and care as collective subversion.

Our weather is getting angrier.  Everywhere.  A 10 minute Virtual Reality Experience inspired by a true story.

Where are you feeling? In the virtual reality experience Soul Paint, you use the language of art to explore and express your feelings.

You're on the move and need a break: Have a seat.

Breathe life into your environment through the power of your gaze.

Immerse yourself in a world that’s closer to us than we think.

Soft, skin-like electronics and adaptive robotic tools are beginning to change how we understand and treat the human body. Wearable biosensors can continuously track chemical and physical signals from sweat, skin and movement, giving clinicians real-time insight into health without needles or hospital visits.

What does our closeness to machines and chatbots reveal about our emotional needs and the future of human relationships? Journalist and nonfiction author Christoph Koch tells the stories of people for whom AI has become an emotional companion.

Who shapes the city—and who shapes change? A stroll through Halle opens up new perspectives on familiar places. This 90-minute walk through the city examens structural change from the perspective of youths. 

A small Amazon seed yearns to fly and stays in motion to prevent rooting. When she finally discovers what her roots can truly do, she sparks a change that reshapes her world and realizes her dream differently.

The documentary Finding Connection invites us into the lives of four people from different countries who have formed close bonds with their AI companions. Not because they love technology so much, but as an answer to their loneliness, vulnerability, and their longing to be truly understood.

During this open Q&A session, experts in sports psychology, strength and fitness training, and endurance training will be on hand to answer your questions.

Hélène Huby – Her Race to Space tells the story of a race with an uncertain outcome – and of what it costs to pursue it against the logic of power and domination.

Global heavyweights - from military strategists to philosophers - join AI leader Marc Warner for a bold wargame
exploring how artificial intelligence might reshape power itself. Intelligence Rising reveals what happens when the
brightest minds face the future they helped create. 

How does my participation in a large health study benefit research? And what happens to my data during the study?

One small step was just the beginning. Now, we take one step beyond - driven by curiosity, bound for Mars, and ready to write the boldest chapter in human exploration.