Science Film festival at Goethe hall
View(s):In celebration of science communication in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, the Goethe Institute Colombo presents Science Film festival starting from this week. The official opening of the Festival and screening of first film ‘Checker Tobi and Our Planet’s Secret’ will take place at 10:30 am on October 17 at the Goethe-Institute Hall.
Checker Tobi’s greatest adventure begins on a pirate ship in the middle of the sea, where he finds a message in a bottle containing a riddle. If he’s able to solve the riddle, he will reveal our planet’s greatest secret. An exciting treasure hunt that brings Tobi across the globe is about to begin! Tobi climbs the crater of a fire-breathing volcano and dives side by side with a sea dragon in the Pacific Ocean. Together with climatologists, Tobi explores the most remote regions of the Arctic just to end up in India. He becomes a Bollywood star in Mumbai just before the monsoon transforms the mega metropolis. In the end Tobi realizes that this whole time the solution of the riddle was right before his eyes.
In cooperation with local partners, the festival aims to promotes science literacy and facilitates awareness of contemporary scientific, technological and environmental issues through international films with accompanying educational activities. The Ministry of Science, Technology and Research is the main local partner of the Goethe-Institut to perform the festival together with other partners such as the Leo Club, the Sri Lankan Academy of Young Scientists, Rupavahini TV and the German Embassy Colombo.
