L'enfant sauvage - Haur basatia (François Truffaut, 1970)

Cinema and Science Series

Invited Scientists: Amaia Carrión Castillo
BCBL
When: 2026/01/16
19:00
Place: Tabakalera, Donostia / San Sebastián
Organizers: DIPC, Basque Film Archive, San Sebastian International Film Festival
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Photogram of L'enfant sauvage - Haur basatia (François Truffaut, 1970) which is projected in the framework of Cinema and Science.

Synopsis of the film:
Based on real events in late-18th-century France, this film follows the education of a boy who grew up isolated in the forest, with no contact whatsoever with people or civilisation.

Guest scientist and format:
Amaia Carrión Castillo is an Ikerbasque researcher at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL). After the screening, there will be the usual discussion session during which attendees can ask questions.

Language:
Film: original French version with Basque subtitles.

Presentation: Basque

Program and tickets:
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About the speaker

Amaia Carrión Castillo is an Ikerbasque researcher at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL). After studying biology and cognitive neuroscience, she completed her doctoral thesis on the genetic basis of reading at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands. She then led research at the same institute on the cerebral lateralization of language and its genetic architecture. Since 2020, she has been working at the BCBL in Donostia, analyzing the cognitive and neural processes related to reading and linking them to genetics.