Polar Star Films latest documentary The Secret of Doctor Grinberg has its UK premierein the Official Documentary Section of Sheffield Doc/Fest, which runs online from the 10th June for one month.

The Secret of Doctor Grinberg, directed by Ida Cuéllar and produced by Polar Star Films and Primo, will be screened in the strand “Into the World”. UK public can watch the film here.

Considered by many to be the “Einstein of consciousness”, Grinberg took the study of psychophysiology beyond the limits of traditional science in his attempt to map the infinite potential of the human brain. Serious and meticulous, a professor at UNAM, National Autonomous University of Mexico, and director of a modern laboratory, Dr. Grinberg researched and experimented to the point of  proving the first signs of telepathy.

In 1994 and at the height of his career, Jacobo Grinberg mysteriously disappeared. The strange circumstances of his disappearance have given rise to multiple hypotheses and theories that have hindered shedding light on the case. Undoubtedly, Dr. Grinberg was not an ordinary scientist, and he was obsessed with giving a scientific explanation to the practices of Mexican shamanism. That interest led him to relate to magical and inexplicable worlds, which eventually obscured his legacy and created a halo of legend around his disappearance.

Following the investigations of Chief Superintendent Clemente Padilla, this documentary reconstructs the surprising and real facts that lead up to the disappearance of Dr. Grinberg. An amazing journey through the exotic locations of Mexico, the United States, India, Nepal, Barcelona and Madrid.

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