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Sweat! The Human Superpower

Sweat! One of our least appreciated bodily functions, yet critical to being human. Scientists are only just beginning to uncover the incredible insights sweat can provide about illnesses, diet, and overall fitness and wellbeing.

Through a cast of quirky scientists, surgeons, zoologists, forensic experts, sauna enthusiasts, and exercise fanatics, the curious story of sweat is finally explored. Experiments reveal what makes it such an incredible coolant, demonstrating the hard limits of the human thermoregulation system and the fascinating ways sweat can help us better understand ourselves.

Along the way, it becomes clear that sweat is an often-overlooked but remarkable evolutionary success story—one of the defining traits that make us distinctly human. Join us as we embrace our soggy skin and learn to love our sweat!

Paparazzi

Chain-smoking, opinionated, nihilistic and unscrupulous; Przemek will stop at nothing to get the picture that he wants.

During a high-speed chase he photographs a female celebrity, his camera pointing towards her passenger window, blazing like a machine-gun. He trawls through the grounds of a hospice to get an elusive window shot of the dying Catholic priest Father Jankowski. The paparazzo is a leather-jacketed, self-proclaimed ‘motherfucker’ whose actions and motivations seem deeply immoral, even borderline criminal. But this is only half the story.

Director Bernas filmed his ‘black hero’ for a year, and events subsequently conspire to force home Przemek’s volte-face. When the Polish president and his entourage are killed in a plane crash, the public outpouring of grief effects a significant change in his approach to his craft. His subjects are now sorrowful citizens assuming attitudes of sombre reflection, illuminated by candles of remembrance. But despite his change of heart, Przemek can’t suppress his urge to get one final picture, which is of the car carrying the president’s brother as it eludes the speeding paparazzo, racing towards a dark and ominous tunnel.

Paparazzi is a visual feast – stylish, colourful, fast-paced – and shot to a thumping beat.