Particle Fever is a documentary movie following six particle physicists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, and up to the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012. As they seek the keys to unlocking the very building blocks of physics, the six protagonists are joined with more than 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and to find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter and to confront an even bigger challenge: have we reached our limit in understanding why we exist?

Directed by Mark Levinson, a physicist turned filmmaker, from the inspiration and initiative of producer David Kaplan and masterfully edited by Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Godfather trilogy), Particle Fever is a celebration of discovery, revealing the very human stories behind this epic machine.

The movie will be shown in English with Italian subtitles on Monday 22 August 2016, 20:00 in USI's Aula Magna. Free entry.