Our love for dinosaurs

Can you love someone you've never met?

Mythical like a dragon, but also real, we grew attached to ideas of what dinosaurs could have been. On Valentine's Day, we're screening De dag dat het zonlicht niet meer scheen, a documentary that approaches the end of the dinosaur era as a true crime story in deep time.

A team of researchers follows one fine line in the rock bed, in which what happened on that fateful day can be read down to the minute – 66 million years ago, the day a meteor struck near Mexico and the entire planet was shrouded in dust, making it impossible for rays of sunlight to reach earth. Hard science is supplemented by a sense of longing, humor, absurdity and melancholy

The filmmakers and researchers from the film will introduce the screening and bring exclusive rock samples from Wyoming (USA), in which the hours and days after the impact are still visible. And we'll bring out remarkable meteorites from our enormous collections.

A Valentine's Day about extinction, imagination, and unrequited love between humans and prehistoric creatures.