Nature/Environment

  • The Bubble

    Switzerland, Austria | 2021 | 52/93min

    THE 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

     
  • Molecules

    Italy | 2020 | 54/68min

    Between February and April of 2020, Andrea Segre, who lives in Rome for several years, got stuck in Venice during the lockdown: Venice, hometown of his father and just partially his own. Read More

     
  • Cabbage, Potatoes and other Demons

    Romania, Germany | 2016 | 60min

    1 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

  • Samuel in the Clouds

    Belgium, Netherlands | 2016 | 55/70min

    High in the Bolivian Andes, the old ski lift operator Samuel remains hopeful that the snow will return, even though climate change has caused the glacier to vanish for good. Read More

  • Song from the Forest

    Germany | 2013 | 52/97min

    The US citizen Louis Sarno has been living with the Bayaka pygmies in the Central African jungle for 25 years. Now he’s taking his pygmy son to see the United States for the first time. Read More

     
  • Rabbit à la Berlin

    Poland / Germany | 2009 | 39/50min

    When Death Zone was the safest home - the untold story of wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls for 28 years and which had to learn to live in the free world again after the Wall came down. 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

     
  • 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

     
  • Robinsons of Mantsinsaari

    Germany / Finland / Poland | 2008 | 57min

    The film tells the story of two elderly men who are the last and sole residents of a now-Russian-controlled island on Lake Ladoga – and who don’t speak to each other. Read More