The first Dutch festival that combines film and science is about to start in Nijmegen. InScience will be held from November 4-8 at Lux, with a significant part of the program accessible to an international audience. Vox has lined up some tips below.

InScience wants to show how science, film and society influence each other. During the festival, you can watch a variety of science-related films, join a debate program and experience science first-hand in the form of experiments and installations. To help you on your way, Vox has lined up three festival must-sees for you.

#1 The Stanford Prison Experiment
It was up in the air until right before the festival, but now it’s official: The Stanford Prison Experiment will have its Dutch premier as the opening film at InScience. The film tells the real story behind one of the most notorious social psychology experiments in history. In 1971, twenty-four Stanford University students simulated life in prison, in the basement of their university. Half of them played guards, the other half played prisoners. The behavior they displayed was so extreme that the experiment had to be terminated after just six days, instead of the planned fourteen. The experiment’s head researcher, Philip Zimbardo, cooperated with this film adaptation. Another adaptation, Das Experiment, was released in 2001 for which Zimbardo refused to lend his cooperation. The Stanford Prison Experiment was filmed in the same basement where the actual experiment took place forty-five years ago.
Public opening: Wednesday, November 4 at 8:00 p.m., followed by a discussion in English with producer Brent Emery. Another screening of the film will be held on Friday, November 6, followed by a discussion in Dutch.

#2 Big Ideas: Hello cyborg!
A Big Ideas reading on the “exciting developments in science” will be held each night of the festival. Kevin Warwick from Coventry University definitely does some exciting research. Not only does he study the fusion of human and machine (cyborg), he also subjected himself and his wife to an experiment that would never make it through an ethics committee: he attached his brain to his wife’s nerves. In his reading, he will discuss the possibility of creating a biological brain for robots.
Hello Cyborg! reading on Thursday, November 5 at 7:00 p.m. in the Synthonzaal.

#3 Go Short Flirts with Science
No Nijmegen film festival would be complete without a contribution from Go Short. The organizers of the short film festival have put together a program of six short films that flirt with science. The films’ length varies from three minutes to twenty-nine minutes, and you can expect all kinds of topics and styles.
Go Short Flirts with Science, film program on Thursday, November 5 at 12:00 noon and Saturday, November 7 at 2:00 p.m.