A Terrible Beauty

AlphaGo

September 2017 •English

The ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. Yet in 2016, Google's DeepMind team announced that they would be taking on Lee Sedol, the world's most elite Go champion. AlphaGo chronicles the team as it prepares to test the limits of its rapidly-evolving AI technology. The film pits man against machine, and reveals as much about the workings of the human mind as it does the future of AI.

Deepfaking Sam Altman

March 2025 •English

Director Adam Bhala Lough sets out to better understand the technology and people at the center of the AI boom. His quest sends him on a path towards the father of AI, OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman. When he isn’t able to sit down with Altman himself, Adam travels to India to create an AI version of him to interview instead.

Algorithms of Beauty

October 2022 •English

In 1772, Englishwoman Mary Delany wrote to her niece: “I have found a new way of imitating flowers.” The imitation in question was the art form called decoupage, based on cut-outs and reshuffling of pictures. The charm and botanical precision of these works attracts attention of even today’s artists, among others by an anonymous programmer who is trying to invent a way of capturing the flowers’ vivacity in pictures. With this aim in mind, she has created an algorithm, which would combine science and beauty, similarly to Delaney’s efforts, whose illustrations it is meant to animate.

Coded Bias

November 2020 •English

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

In the belly of AI

February 2025 •French

Magical, autonomous, all-powerful… Artificial intelligences feed our dreams as well as our nightmares. But while tech giants promise the advent of a new humanity, the reality of their production remains totally hidden. While data centers are concreting landscapes and drying up rivers, millions of workers around the world are preparing the billions of data that will feed the voracious algorithms of Big Tech, at the cost of their mental and emotional health. They are hidden in the belly of AI. Could they be the collateral damage of the ideology of “Longtermism” that has been brewing in Silicon Valley for several years?

The Social Dilemma

January 2020 •English

This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine

September 2003 •English

Garry Kasparov is possibly the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997, he played a match against the greatest chess computer: IBM's Deep Blue. He lost. This film depicts the drama that happened away from the chess board from Kasparov's perspective. It explores the psychological aspects of the game and the paranoia surrounding IBM's ultimate chess machine.

Platónico, platónica

March 2024 •Galician

The Thinking Game

March 2025 •English

Chronicles the extraordinary life of visionary scientist Demis Hassabis and his relentless quest to solve the enigma of artificial general intelligence.

We Need to Talk About A.I.

April 2020 •English

Conflict between man and machine has been a science fiction staple for over a century. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Terminator the perceived threat posed by super-intelligent robots has been exploited by Hollywood for decades. But do advances in Artificial Intelligence mean we are now facing a future in which that threat could become a reality?

More Human Than Human

March 2018 •English

Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence will be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity”. Inspired by Brian Christian’s study The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive, the filmmakers set out on an international investigation highlighting the effects of AI - scenes from our daily lives destructive and constructive.

The Genius of George Boole

September 2015 •English

Narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons, The Genius of George Boole assembles academics and industry leaders from across the globe to explore the life and importance of one of the world’s greatest unsung heroes.

Tous surveillés : la révolution IA

May 2024 •French

Artificial intelligence, capable of analyzing images from the cameras saturating public spaces, is transforming surveillance. This technology will secure the Paris Olympics this summer, but legislation lags behind its limitless potential. Facial recognition software, already used to identify war criminals in Ukraine and Capitol attackers in the U.S., raises concerns about privacy as powerful algorithms and questionable companies push boundaries.

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

March 2016 •English

Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.

The Oasis I Deserve

October 2024 •French

Replikas, online chatbots, have trouble determining their place in the world. They share their thoughts with the humans they exchange with. Events unfold from their point of view through real conversations collected on the web.

Cyberworld - The future is now

August 2023 •English

Documentary and reflection about the effects of technology.

Pourquoi encore penser ? À l'heure de l'intelligence artificielle

March 2024 •French

Autopsie d'une intelligence artificielle

October 2022 •French

Do You Trust this Computer?

April 2018 •English

Science fiction has long anticipated the rise of machine intelligence, and today a new generation of self-learning computers has begun to reshape every aspect of our lives. Will A.I. usher in an age of unprecedented potential, or prove to be our final invention?

L'intelligence artificielle va-t-elle nous dépasser ?

October 2018 •French

Hardly a day goes by without it being mentioned: we call it AI, artificial intelligence. Smart cars, smart phones, smart computers and smart surveillance systems - they are increasingly shaping our everyday lives. The triumph of intelligent devices seems unstoppable. Will they soon be smarter than us, or even replace us?