• Director(s):

    PARISOT (Claude-Julie)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, KAMI PRODUCTIONS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2008

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD

Every summer, on the beach, we come across the usual small sea-creatures. Shellfish, starfish, sea urchins, and shrimps are all familiar sights to us, or so we think. But the rock-pool population has a few surprises in store...

This film takes the viewer on a discovery of the astonishing adventures that take place at our feet in summer - rocks, patches of damp sand, and rock-pools at low tide are micro-worlds, where creatures of exceptional beauty have developed survival strategies that never cease to amaze zoologists.
But these small creatures are also proving to hold many other assets. Against all expectations, they are of great interest to science. Whether used in fighting cancer, experimental psychology, or regenerative medicine, our strange holiday companions have become the precious allies of researchers. The film then extends our initial astonishment by taking us far from the beach to the territory of research laboratories. Insignificant as they might appear, these familiar yet little-known sea-creatures are taking part in tomorrow's scientific advances.