Nature/Environment
Against the Tide
India, France | 2023 | 97minTwo friends, both indigenous Koli fishermen in Bombay, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different paths to provide for their struggling families. Read More
The Bubble
Switzerland, Austria | 2021 | 52/93minTHE BUBBLE by Valerie Blankenbyl examines often-surreal senior citizen life within The Villages, America’s largest retirement community. Leisurely retired life beneath the year-round Floridian sunshine however, is not perhaps as idyllic, or as welcomed, as viewers may imagine. Read More
To the Moon
Ireland | 2020 | 76minTO THE MOON by Tadhg O'Sullivan steps lightly through the ages and ideas that people have drawn from the moon to meditate on the fragile and fleeting nature of humanity. Read More
Dark Eden
Germany | 2018 | 80minDirectors Jasmin Herold & Michael Beamish explore Fort McMurray in the far north of Canada, home of the largest industrial project and the third largest oil reserve on the planet, searching for an answer to the question, "How high is the price for a better life?". Read More
Little Yellow Boots
Finland, Germany | 2017 | 95minFilmmaker John Webster sets out on a road-trip with his imaginary great granddaughter in an attempt to understand the moral and behavioural choices that make tackling climate change so difficult. Read More
Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas
Sweden, Germany, Finland | 2017 | 80minA documentary thriller by Joakim Demmer about the murky concept of 'land grabbing' in Ethiopia - a modern form of colonisation where foreign investors buy or lease large farmland areas in developing countries without benefiting the local population. Read More
Cabbage, Potatoes and other Demons
Romania, Germany | 2016 | 60min1 village, 1.000 tractors, 100.000 tons of cabbages & potatoes each year - which are hardly sold and eventually destroyed. Is there any way out? Read More