Pandemics, science fiction, and the future of Europe

Pandemics have been a running theme throughout science fiction and many cross-genre movies, from zombies to aliens. But what happens when Europe (and the world) has become a huge set of a pandemic, and it is not a science fiction, even if it closely looks like it?Giuseppe Porcaro is in conversation with Anthony Straeger, the director of the Berlin Sci-fi Film Festival, and Isabella Hermann, political scientist and expert of A.I. and ethics. A (partial) watch list of the movies we speak about in this episode: Contagion (2011)The Host (2006)12 Monkeys (1995)28 Days Later (2002)Andromeda Strain (1971)It comes at night (2017)Outbreak (1995)Quarantine (2008)Virus (1980)Children of men (2006)