Nature/Environment

  • Against the Tide

    India, France | 2023 | 97min

    Two 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

     
  • Bad Weather

    Germany / UK | 2011 | 58/82min

    The film by Giovanni Giommi tells the story of a community of female sex workers living on Banishanta Island and their struggle to survive at the frontline of climate change. Read More

     
  • Bullshit

    Sweden | 2005 | 58/73min

    Filmmakers follow the Indian alternative globalist Vandana Shiva for two years in her worldwide fight against neo-liberal globalization. Read More

     
  • Canned Dreams

    Finland | 2012 | 52/78 (81)min

    A film by Katja Gauriloff about workers and their dreams on the journey of a canned food product. Read More

     
  • Close to Heaven

    Germany / Romania | 2010 | 93min

    A Transylvanian family of shepherds amidst the mesmerizing, uncultivated and desolate countryside of the Carpathians. The last refuge in Europe for a forgotten profession in an unhurried world. Read More

     
  • Dark Eden

    Germany | 2018 | 80min

    Directors 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

     
  • Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas

    Sweden, Germany, Finland | 2017 | 80min

    A 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

     
  • Gugara

    Poland | 2008 | 58/69min

    This is the story of the decline of a small Siberian community. This perceptive documentary describes the paradoxical world of former nomads and reindeer herdsman that were forced to abandon their ancient way of life. Read More

     
  • Honeyland

    Macedonia | 2019 | 85min

    When a nomadic family moves in and breaks Honeyland’s basic rule, the last female wild beekeeper in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance. Read More