JANUARY 2027 | GRAND ET PETIT

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Awards

• 2019 Winner, Special Mention of the Jury, La Brénaz Jury Prize, Camille Budin at the Intl Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights

Synopsis

EN

A primary school class in the Swiss mountains embarks on an adventure to discover the mysteries of the universe, guided by the Canadian astrophysicist Stéphanie Juneau. The Big Bang, the birth of stars, Supernovas, black holes, planet Earth… Nowadays hardly anything holds any mystery for children anymore. Or does it? As these kids soon come to realize, mystery – like the universe – has no bounds. A fact they see reflected in the striking, breathtaking – often tempestuous – nature that surrounds their school, which lies huddled away at the bottom of a valley. Over the course of a weeklong introductory workshop on astronomy, the kids discover that every little thing – from the infinitely small to the infinitely large – is connected; and how they too have an impact on the precarious balance between Earth and Sun. Thus, their reactions, their games, the way they put their new knowledge into practice, and above all their innocent – often clumsy – questions, inevitably refer to a bigger, almost metaphysical and universal questioning: “What is our place in the universe?

Presented with The Embassy of Switzerland in the United States