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)