Short Science Nominee Science & Media Awards 25

Interplay

Interplay

Sanne ROVERS

Films + Filmtalks

Netherlands

20 mn
Ammodo Docs

In the countryside in northern Uganda, armed with petri dishes, cardboard cups and a vacuum
cleaner, internationally renowned malaria researcher Teun Bousema, along with PhD student
Daniel Ayo and his team, seeks to unravel the mysterious life cycle of the malaria parasite. But the parasite is elusive, constantly mutating, which increases the threat of drug resistance. Is this
mutated parasite more infectious to mosquitoes? Interplay depicts the daily reality of the tireless scientific battle against this formidable and multifaceted opponent.