The screening is part of the BAFF-Beirut Art Film Festival program, dedicated this year to Leonardo da Vinci, on the fifth centenary of his birth.
Leonardo Da Vinci was an extraordinary artist and inventor. But researchers have discovered, in ancient manuscripts, drawings and treatises that prefigure many of his inventions and trace back to classical Greece, the Arab Empire and even ancient China. Coincidence or plagiarism? This is the story of the making of a scientist, how Leonardo Da Vinci sought out technical and scientific knowledge lost to Europe in the Dark Ages and helped launch a new scientific age.