52’,
52′, directed by Muriel Coulin.
Episode of the documentary series ” Les Hôpitaux d’excellence “.
Co-produced by France Télévisions and MVS Productions.
With the support of the CNC, the Ministry of Health, Delegation for Information and Communication, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, the PROCIREP and the ANGOA.
Selected for the 2007 Health Television Festival in Marseille. Selection at the Festival ” À nous de voir – Science et cinéma ” of Oullins 2008. Selection at the “Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas” of Marseille 2008. Selected for the Semaine du cerveau in Grenoble 2009.
Through moving individual stories, epileptic patients tell us about their daily life. Their unpredictable and impressive seizures isolate them and prevent them from leading a normal social and professional life.
Faced with the difficulty of living with this disease, which affects one in a hundred French people, and the feeling of being different, the urgency of brain research has become apparent. At the Timone Hospital in Marseille, a team of neurosurgeons and researchers who are particularly committed to this disease welcome these people in a multidisciplinary care program, supported by state-of-the-art technology.
The disease now reveals its secrets, sharing with us the hopes of these men and women whose fight for a cure requires daily courage.