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- DirectorTom BeardStarsDavid AttenboroughIsrafeel AhamedBhashkar BaraA fresh new approach to the global lockdown and the uplifting stories that have come out of it. People all over the world have had the chance to engage with nature like never before.
- DirectorMark DeebleVictoria StoneStarsChiwetel EjioforAthena is a mother who will do everything in her power to protect her herd when they are forced to leave their waterhole. This epic journey, narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor, takes audiences across the African savannah, and into the heart of an elephant family. A tale of love, loss and coming home.
- DirectorDrew XanthopoulosStarsMichelle FournetEllen GarlandChristopher T. Tessaglia-HymesFathom is a visual and aural wonder of a documentary that follows researchers working to finally decode the communication of humpback whales. With Dr. Michelle Fournet, Dr. Ellen Garland.
- DirectorWerner HerzogClive OppenheimerStarsWerner HerzogClive OppenheimerSimon SchafferA documentary from Werner Herzog about meteors and comets and their influence on ancient religions and other cultural and physical impacts they've had on Earth.
- DirectorHuaqing JinA work of visual awe and matter-of-fact spiritual inquiry, Dark Red Forest is a majestic documentary portrait that details the annual retreat of thousands of Tibetan nuns to small wooden houses on the vast Tibetan Plateau. With extraordinary intimacy, the camera nestles in with the women of the Yarchen Monastery, who, during the 100 coldest days of the year, learn about-and in some cases experience-profound matters of life and death, suffering and healing, karma and consequence. A document of the experiences of a group of increasingly politically embattled people, Jin Huaqing's film is also a clarifying work of faith and philosophical inquiry, set against a forbidding landscape.
- DirectorMarie AmiguetVincent MunierStarsVincent MunierSylvain TessonTwo men explore the high-altitude wilderness of Tibet with many cameras, filming wildlife from a respectful distance and searching for the rare snow leopard.
- DirectorCorentin LeconteMélanie SchaanIn the Himuro Valley, in Japan, Akeji and Asako seem to have lived for ever in an hermitage, among the animals and the spirits of nature. Season after season, Asako collects the plants that she transforms into pigments, Akeji prays and devotes himself to painting. The cycle of nature seems unalterable. Still, time crackles and the reality catches up with them.
- DirectorAmel AlzakoutKhaled AbdulwahedStarsAmel AlzakoutMade from images filmed by the Syrian artist Amel Alzakout after the boat on which she was fleeing Syria sank off the coast of Lesbos, Purple Sea reports on the moment in which the co-director and the other passengers are floating in the sea in their life-jackets, waiting to be rescued. Her voice-over accompanies this extremely poignant experience.
- DirectorKevin McMahonBorealis is a unique cinematic documentary that goes deep into Canada's iconic snow forest to understand how black spruce and birch experience life, talk to each other and decide when the time is right to burn themselves down.
- DirectorSaeed Taji FaroukyStarsZim Ko AungThein ShweHtwe TinIn the Magway region of Myanmar, a country home to one of the oldest petroleum industries in the world, live husband and wife Thein Shwe and Htwe Tin. Running an unregulated oil field, they produce a barrel every few days. They wish above all else to see their youngest son succeed, to break the cycle of poverty.
- DirectorFrédéric ChoffatStarsRobin ChappatteQuentin ChevalleyLucia ChoffatSacrificed generation? At the beginning of 2019, young people are taking to the streets all over the world to warn of the climate crisis. In Switzerland too, young people are questioning the system. As their voices begin to resound, the arrival of the corona virus in 2020 abruptly cuts their drive. The film intimately follows these activists in the euphoria of the first demonstrations as well as in the spleen of the health crisis.
- DirectorJacquelyn MillsStarsZoe LucasAn immersion into the rich landscapes of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote strip of sand.
- DirectorRithy PanhAnimals have enslaved humans and taken over the world. The statues of the past are gone and new ones are erected to suppress the will of the people.
- DirectorTasha Van ZandtA journey across both poles, After Antarctica follows legendary polar explorer Will Steger's life journey as an eyewitness to the greatest changes to the polar regions of our planet.
- DirectorJennifer BaichwalStarsEdward BurtynskyPhotographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing.
- DirectorJennifer BaichwalEdward BurtynskyStarsInocencia González SainzMarcus SchubertBill NanceA documentary on how water shapes humanity.
- DirectorJennifer BaichwalEdward BurtynskyNicholas de PencierStarsYoussef Suleiman MohammedAlicia VikanderFilmmakers travel to six continents and 20 countries to document the impact humans have made on the planet.
- DirectorSalomé JashiDocumentary follows trees that are transported, at great expense and inconvenience, from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country's former prime minister.
- DirectorSara DosaStarsRagnhildur JonsdottirTHE SEER AND THE UNSEEN is a magic realist documentary about invisible elves, financial collapse and the surprising power of belief, told through the story of an Icelandic woman - a real life Lorax who speaks on behalf of nature under threat. Through her story, SEER explores the surprising power of belief and, the invisible forces - be they elves or the market - that shape our visible worlds and transform our natural landscapes.
- DirectorNikolaus GeyrhalterA film about our garbage that is found in the most remote areas and about the people who try to dispose of it.
- DirectorMassimo CarozziAnna de ManincorZimmer FreiParticle physicists are now heading toward the wide open and unmapped field of the "unknown unknowns".
- DirectorGuillaume VincentStarsMarion CotillardSet in the wilderness of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the land of legends and the kingdom of wild brown bears, we follow the daily adventures of five wild brown bears.
- DirectorPaulo AbreuStarsPaulo AbreuJoão da PonteLeandro ValenteWhat is not seen - Documentary film shot in two of the Azores islands, Pico and Faial, between 2015 and 2016. The idea of this film happened by accident. Going back to the footage of a location scouting from a previous project, canceled years before, another hidden film was found. The power of Nature and the role of chance in the creative process build a narrative about life, friendship, cinema and the influence of the unexpected in artistic creation.
- DirectorReber DoskyStarsSidik BarzaniFor 25 long years Sidik has been searching for a snow leopard in the war-scarred mountains of Kurdistan in northern Iraq. Once there were many leopards here. If they return, Sidik believes his people and his homeland will survive. If he can capture one of the magical creatures on film the region will be declared a national park. And the bombs will never fall again. Sidik still hasn't found his leopard. But he refuses to give up hope. As he travels through the Kurdish mountains, he meets, animals, rivers, plants, and people. Their memories and stories mesh with his own - Acclaimed director Reber Dosky's poetic film tells a story of hope, pride and the possibility of healing in a rarely-seen land of astonishing beauty.
- DirectorMichal BielawskiWhen it starts to blow, there is no way to hide from it or completely shelter oneself. Its destructive power manifests itself in destroyed forests and houses. However, halny is not only a destructive element but also an experience which influences our mood and health. When it descends from the mountains, it carries with it a wave of suicide attempts, strokes, and other tragedies.
- DirectorVano ArsenishviliNino OrjonikidzeAn old railway station in a remote valley of Georgia suddenly becomes a site for a big change, when hundreds of Chinese settle around it to build the New Silk Road.
- DirectorTizian BüchiIn the heat of summer, two security guards secure the river below the Faverges district in Lausanne, Switzerland. Ammar is new to the business, and Daniel shares his experience with him. Through rounds and encounters, a territory takes shape, a friendship is built. What could have happened near the river? Navigating between documentary and fiction, Tizian Büchi subtly questions the surveillance society through a contemporary fable imbued with mystery, nostalgia and humor.
- DirectorSaila KiveläVesa KuosmanenStarsSaila KiveläMai KiveläKristo MuurimaaA personal documentary that portrays Saila, an activist for animal rights, facing her own limits when she realizes that the utopia she has always fought for will never be as she imagined.
- DirectorJennifer BaichwalStarsDewayne 'Lee' JohnsonCali BaldelomarMichelle BaldelomarThe powerful story of a former Bay Area groundskeeper who took on Monsanto after a terminal cancer diagnosis.
- DirectorLucien Castaing-TaylorVerena ParavelStarsBrian JannelleAdrian GuilletteArthur SmithA documentary shot in the North Atlantic and focused on the commercial fishing industry.
- DirectorSara DosaStarsMiranda JulyKatia KrafftMaurice KrafftIntrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.
- DirectorChristopher TerrillStarsKate BallardTom BallardKarim HayatThe unforgettable story of the 30-year-old climber Tom Ballard who disappeared on the so-called killer mountain, Nanga Parbat, in 2019
- DirectorSusanna della SalaStarsStefan AshkenazyWilliam AttawayDanielle AykroydIn the midst of the harsh Californian desert and on the shores of a toxic lake lies a land that time forgot. This once abandoned town is now home to a small community where art heals people in the most unexpected ways.
- DirectorMarkus ImhoofStarsFred JaggiRandolf MenzelJohn MillerAn in-depth look at honeybee colonies in California, Switzerland, China and Australia.
- DirectorRune Denstad LangloFridays for Future attempt a coup in Norway: for the first time ever, several generations go to court to defend their fundamental right to a clean environment - for Norway and the whole of Europe.
- DirectorJames BenningAn exploration of the building and grounds of the California Institute of Art. Each image creates a tension, a constant urge to move on the next one, as if landscape and space could be the scenes of a crime.
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsLin GallagherA close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.
- DirectorDavis GuggenheimStarsAl GoreBilly WestGeorge BushFilmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.
- DirectorSteven GorelickHelena Norberg-HodgeJohn PageStarsJan BarhamRonald ColmanEliana Amparo Apaza Espillico'The Economics of Happiness' features a chorus of voices from six continents calling for systemic economic change. The documentary describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance - and, far from the old institutions of power, they're starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm - an economics of localization.
- DirectorDeborah StratmanEvolution and extinction from the point of view of rocks. A humid take on minerals, where sci-fi meets sci-fact. The geo-biosphere is a place of evolutionary possibility, where humans disappear but life endures.
- DirectorNathan GrossmanStarsGreta ThunbergSvante ThunbergNiclas SvenningsenThe documentary follows Greta Thunberg, a teenage climate activist from Sweden, on her international crusade to get people to listen to scientists about the world's environmental problems.
- DirectorAlastair FothergillJeff WilsonStarsCatherine KeenerFollows a new mother as she prepares to navigate motherhood in the challenging world that polar bears face today.
- DirectorFlore VasseurStarsGreta ThunbergXiuhtezcatl MartinezMary FinnMelati Wijsen travels the world to meet young activists who have already helped the world with their perseverance and selflessness.
- StarsEugene LevyJoan CollinsHéctor BellerínFollows the adventures of Levy as he visits some of the world's most remarkable hotels, as well as explores the people, places, and cultures.
- DirectorEmelie MahdavianStarsColie MolineHollyn PattersonIn the remote and rugged mountains of the American West, two young women contemplate the future as they work alone herding cattle.
- DirectorAinara VeraStarsHayat MokhenacheLeila MokhenacheInaya MokhenacheExplores the intimate relationship of sisterhood between two sisters, Hayat and Leila.
- DirectorGuido Guerrasio
- DirectorJimmy ChinElizabeth Chai VasarhelyiStarsKristine TompkinsYvon ChouinardRick RidgewayA sweeping portrait of conservationists Kris and Doug Tompkins chronicling their fight to preserve one of the last truly wild places on earth.
- DirectorJimmy ChinElizabeth Chai VasarhelyiStarsAlex HonnoldTommy CaldwellJimmy ChinAlex Honnold faces the biggest challenge of his career, climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He pursues it Free Solo, which means climbing without a rope and alone.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsHarry GlickenWerner HerzogKatia KrafftMaurice and Katia Krafft dedicated their lives to exploring the world's volcanoes. Their legacy consists of groundbreaking footage of eruptions and their aftermath, composed in this visual stunning collage.
- DirectorMargreth OlinStarsJørgen MykløenMagnhild MykløenBeing connected to nature, what does it mean? Father knows and father shows. The director's father is 84. We follow in his footsteps into the mountain home. Into nature's smallest life and out to grand panoramas, where he grew up.
- DirectorEleonora MastropietroUpon the Mont Blanc massif, observing tourism facilities, mountaineering, modernity, representation and experience
- DirectorMirka DuijnNina SpieringIn this travelogue, Mirka Duijn traces the history of the image of Shangri-La, the Utopian place from the novel Lost Horizon (1933), that has now become real.
- DirectorShaunak SenStarsSalik RehmanMohammad SaudNadeem ShehzadAmidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.
- DirectorAndy BichlbaumMike BonannoLaura NixStarsMike BonannoAndy BichlbaumBenadette Chandia KodiliComedy troupe The Yes Men stage phony events and press releases in an effort to bring attention to environmental dangers and corporate greed.
- DirectorJames AlgarStarsWinston HiblerAlthough first glance reveals little more than stones and sand, the desert is alive. Witness moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the never-ending battle for survival between creatures of every shape, size and description.
- DirectorNikolaus GeyrhalterThis documentary about Europe at night makes you reflect on service processes and infrastructures that never sleep.
- DirectorRachel LearsStarsRhiana Gunn-WrightAlexandria Ocasio-CortezVarshini PrakashStopping the climate crisis is a question of political courage, and the clock is ticking. Over three years of turbulence and crisis, four young women fight for a Green New Deal, and ignite a historic shift in U.S. climate politics.
- DirectorJean-Robert VialletTogether with its sister companies ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, Shell and ConocoPhillips, Total is one of the six oil and gas super-majors. Total produces 2.8 million barrels and charters 143 million tonnes of oil per year. It has 800 industrial sites and 14,000 petrol stations around the world. But today, the climate crisis, the concern of public opinion and the mistrust of governments are shaking up this multinational which, like the others, is fighting to maintain its hegemony. In the group's communication, "social commitment", "renewable energies" and "sustainable development" have become common expressions. But does Total really want to become more virtuous with regard to human rights and the climate.
- DirectorEkiem BarbierGuilhem CausseQuentin L'Helgouac'hSomewhere on the internet is a land where communities pretend to live out a survivalist fiction. The players reveal their fears and fantasies, in an at times unsettling blurring of the real and the virtual.
- DirectorGiovanni PellegriniAn indefinite tale of a unique and fragile city Venice that is slowly disappearing, suffocated by tourism and threatened by climate change.
- DirectorStefano LorenziFederico MicaliTeresa Paoli"She stands on the horizon. I move two steps nearer; she moves away 10 steps. No matter how far I walk I will never reach her, so what is the utopia for? It's useful for this: to keep walking" (E. Galeano) Firenze Città Aperta deals with the days of the European Social Forum (which took place in Florence from the 10th to the 14th of November 2002) and was distributed in 60,000 copies enclosed with the newspapers L'Unità, Il Manifesto, and with the weekly Carta. Produced by Stefano Stefani for l'Atelier, the film relates the many-sided faces of the movement which came together in Florence, beginning with the eve of the Forum's events, with the shops closed and the people arguing on the streets of the center in an atmosphere of surreal tension as evidenced (and created) by the newspaper headlines. Then, in contrast, the days of the Social Forum, from the march at the American Camp Darby military base, to the seminars, to the colors and sounds of the Fortezza da Basso up until the huge and peaceful march against the war (with a million participants), interspersed by the music of the brass bands which had come from all over Europe to meet in Florence.
- DirectorEnrico Pau
- DirectorFredrik GerttenStarsRutger BregmanGerald BrysonSarah ChayesExamines turning points that make people want to organise and protest such as the assassination of an investigative journalist in Malta and a dried up river in Chile.
- DirectorAnne de CarbucciaStarsRoberto AmbrosiniMariasole BiancoTashi BistaAnne de Carbuccia, an environmental artist, captures the stories of a motley crew of people who decided to dedicate themselves to the planet's wellbeing.
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyWhat would be the shortest route between Entre Rios in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth's surface. During his visits to four such antipodal pairs, the award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captured images that turn our view of the world upside down. A beautiful, peaceful sunset in Entre Rios is contrasted with the bustling streets in rainy Shanghai. People who live in a wasteland are connected to people dwelling next to a volcano. Landscapes whose splendor touches the soul are juxtaposed with the clamor of a vast city. These antipodes seem mythically connected, somehow united by their oppositeness. Kossakovsky's movie is a feast for the senses, a fascinating kaleidoscope of our planet. VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! - Long Live The Antipodes! What is happening on the point of the earth diametrically opposite to where we are now, what awaits us there? Fascinated by this question, Victor Kossakovsky conducted an experiment, and in the course of his unique project visited four coupled antipodes - in Argentina and China, Spain and New Zealand, Chile and Russia, Botswana and Hawaii. Thanks to a keen sense of the magic of his eight locations, Kossakovsky captures unforgettable images. He follows the menacing glow of a volcano's lava, contemplates the majestic flight of a condor, documents human attempts to rescue a stranded whale. A sunset in Argentina's Entre Rios is juxtaposed with rush hour in Shanghai. Tranquil silence and amber light contrast with noisy industriousness and metallic hues. The movie approaches its subject playfully, and Kossakovsky's deployment of the camera is innovative: the earth's surface bends right in front of our eyes, images upside down.
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyWater and ice are shown around the world, in all of their many powerful forms.
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyStarsGundaDocumentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.
- DirectorMark VerkerkStarsAbatutuMartijn FischerAna Luisa SantosThe city Amsterdam from the unique perspective of the many wild animals and plants that inhabit it. Seen through the eyes of the adventurous urban cat, Abatutu.
- DirectorRahul JainExplores the dramatic consequences of India's growing economy, capturing not only a city in crisis but magnifying our collective climate realities.
- DirectorOliver StoneAn investigation into the possibility of addressing climate change with a move away from fossil fuels to nuclear power.
- DirectorHsiu-Yi HuangDu is a shrimp farmer from Taiwan, and he wanted to start a shrimp revolution in Myanmar but was falsely accused of possessing guns and drugs before the revolution began; Sue, a Sino-Burmese girl wanted to rebuild her Dad's shrimp farm. "Success" has been their mutual objective since Du and Sue met, but the trust melts on greedy.
- DirectorLorenzo PallottaAntarctica (1988) a ship must escape from the grip of the ice to reach the bay of Terra Nova. The Italian icebreaker Laura Bassi in 2023 follows the same route and reaches the southernmost point on the planet ever reached by a ship
- DirectorMichael GitlinFilm and video artist Michael Gitlin emphasizes the surreal beauty and ecological relevance of moths, examining a significant aspect of our planet's biodiversity that many of us may never investigate.
- DirectorIrwin AllenStarsDon ForbesTheodore von EltzOscar-winning documentary based on Rachel L. Carson's pioneering study of ocean life chronicled in her award-winning and best-selling 1951 book of the same name.
- DirectorRomuald KarmakarAcross seasons, the film chronicles life at Zurich Zoo, a leading European zoological garden, focusing on the animals, workers and visitors. It explores the relationship between caged creatures and human audiences.
- DirectorPeter MettlerStarsAlfred MettlerJulie MettlerPeter MettlerAn audio-visual, trance-like, epic diary that looks at the miracles contained in everyday things and occurrences. Peter Mettler follows and weaves, with his own unique cinematic signature, the flow of rivers and lives that include the magnitude of the passing of his own parents and the questions of where do we all go from here - both on a personal and on a global scale.
- DirectorJulia GutwenigerFlorian KoflerA poetic and surrealist documentary that exposes the unseen work that goes into creating "a holiday in the sun" in northern Adriatic seaside resorts in Italy.
- DirectorMatteo MaggiCristiana PecciStarsIris BielliMatteo Della BordellaMassimo FalettiThe documentary follows, the adventure of three renowned mountaineers, assisted by a young aspiring climber, on the south face of the Marmolada, the legendary "Regina delle Dolomiti".
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsReinhold MessnerHans KammerlanderWerner HerzogFilm-maker Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander as they attempt to climb the high altitude peaks of Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I all in one expedition, seeking to reveal their inner motivation.
- DirectorMark LinfieldJustine AllanAlistair TonesStarsPriyanka Chopra JonasLifts the veil on our planet's most revered and charismatic animal, inviting viewers to journey alongside Ambar, a young tigress raising her cubs in the fabled forests of India.