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
Bad Weather
Germany / UK | 2011 | 58/82minThe 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
Canned Dreams
Finland | 2012 | 52/78 (81)minA 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 | 93minA 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 | 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
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