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8 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Gunda | 2021 | Male | PG | Doc | 1 hr 33 | Altitude | sales@altitudefilment.com | DVD/Blu Ray/Possible DCP | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afZ6n7lwx48 | Documentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken. |
9 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | The Love Life of an Octopus (French) | 1965 | Male / Female | Unrated | Doc | 13 mins | Archives Jean Painleve | bberg@lesdocs.com | Unknown | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpcf2nFakRg | An octopus slithers into a narrow crack near the shore; we see its eye up close; blowing water propels it through water. It feeds on a crab. In spring it's time to mate. A male grabs a female; he inserts his third arm in her respiratory cavity. We watch another pair: a larger female is the aggressor here. Mating is repeated over hours and days. With high magnification, we see many sperm; she releases strings of fertilized eggs that hang from the roof of a nest. She guards it for a month, fanning the strings to circulate water for oxygen and cleanliness. We watch the eggs up close develop at 1,400 times nature's rate. Then they're born and propel away. |
10 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Milked | 2021 | Female | Unrated | Doc | 1 hr 30 | Journey Man | bookings@journeyman.tv | Digital | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ywYRRcLK4 | MILKED is a topical feature documentary that exposes the whitewash of New Zealand’s multi-billion-dollar dairy industry. Young activist Chris Huriwai travels around the country searching for the truth about how this source of national pride has become the nation’s biggest threat. It’s rapidly gone from a land with no cows to being the biggest exporter of dairy in the world, but the industry seems to be failing in every way possible. Featuring interviews with high-profile contributors such as Dr Jane Goodall, environmentalist and former actress Suzy Amis Cameron, and Cowspiracy co-director, Keegan Kuhn, MILKED reveals the behind-the-scenes reality of the kiwi dairy farming fairy-tale. |
11 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Horseshoe Crab Moon | 2022 | Male | Unrated | Doc / Short | 46 mins | Bullfrog Films | john@bullfrogfilms | Digital | https://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/hcrab.html | Looks at the decline of horseshoe crabs and the crash of the red knot that depends on horseshoe crab eggs for sustenance during migration, and suggests possible solutions. |
12 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Sanctuary | 2016 | Female | Not rated | Doc | 55 mins | Direct | info@armeteam.org | Unknown | https://thisissanctuary.com/ | an inspirational and heart-warming glimpse into the lives of our primate brothers and sisters. This beautifully filmed documentary brings the viewer into the lives of these special relatives of humans, to see the world through their eyes. Through first-hand accounts and rescues, to interventions and interactions with the primates themselves, SANCTUARY shows you a wondrous world where humans have given everything to save the lives of these used, abused, unwanted, and abandoned animals and given them a second chance. Narrated by Victoria Summer, this is a story of innocent lives interrupted by tragedy, but inspired by heroes and hope. Meet Puchi, Chucky, Jimmy Sr., Chaac & Bali—each of their stories touches us in a different way. |
13 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | The Ghosts in our Machine | 2013 | Female | Not rated | Doc | 1 hr 33 mins | Direct | Liz Marshall <liz@lizmars.com> | DVD | https://lizmars.com/portfolio/ghosts-in-our-machine/ | A cinematic documentary that illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. |
14 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | The Last Pig | 2017 | Female | Not rated | Doc | 56 mins | Direct | thelastpigfilm@gmail.com | DVD | https://www.thelastpig.com/ | In the rolling hills of Upstate New York, a farmer is in crisis: after years of raising pigs, he can no longer bear the ultimate act of betrayal. This award-winning film chronicles his final year on the farm, capturing in intimate detail the farmer’s personal upheaval as he questions his beliefs and the value of life. The Last Pig is an immersive snapshot, a tale of choice, grit, and the changing landscape of animal agriculture. The farmer’s inner reflections share his struggle to align life with values, and through the story’s simple intimacy, the farmer’s moral quandary quietly becomes our own. |
15 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Blood Lions | 2015 | Male | 16+ (no official rating - festivals rating given) | Doc | 1 hr 24 mins | Direct from Filmmaker | Host a screening: info@bloodlions.org | Digital | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T86GCjCpus | Blood Lions follows acclaimed environmental journalist and safari operator Ian Michler, and Rick Swazey, an American hunter, on their journey to uncover the realities about the multi-million dollar predator breeding and canned lion hunting industries in South Africa. |
16 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | The Elverman | 2021 | Female | Unrated | Doc Short | 14 mins | Direct from Filmmaker | http://www.islabadenoch.com/theelvermen | Digital | http://www.islabadenoch.com/theelvermen | As the sun sets on the banks of the River Severn on the outskirts of an impoverished city in the UK, a group of men gather in a race to catch a vanishing creature; the elusive elver. Shot over a moonlit night, The Elvermen is an atmospheric film that reveals the last of a hidden community hunting an endangered fish. After a day working in a print factory in Gloucester, Dave drives to the moonlit banks of the River Severn to hunt for an elusive fish, the rare elver (baby-eel), supposedly worth more than their weight in gold. Over the course of a night we experience the mysterious world of the Elvermen: the addictive gamble and stake-out amongst fathers, sons, brothers and friends. Phone calls of frustration and joy echo down a river lit by headtorches. THE ELVERMEN shows how a rite of passage has changed into a fight for values: of tradition, community, and a connection to nature in an environment of impending change. |
17 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Cowspiracy | 2014 | Male | Unrated | Doc | 1 hr 30 mins | Direct from filmmakers | https://www.tugg.com/titles/cowspiracy | DVD | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV04zyfLyN4 | Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn examine the livestock industry and its impact on the environment in Cowspiracy. As their research progresses, they find it increasingly difficult to find trustworthy data on the environmental consequences of animal farming activity, especially on an industrial level. Through interviews with NGOs and politicians, they discover that perhaps all is not being done by the nature defense associations themselves to bring about sustainable livestock farming. Could it consist of a large-scale conspiracy involving secret interests? |
18 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | The Eyes of the Orangutan | 2021 | Male | Unrated | Doc Feature | 50 min | Direct from Filmmakers | https://eyesoftheorangutan.com/ | Digital | https://eyesoftheorangutan.com/ | From the studio that brought you ‘Ivory Game’ and ‘Sea of Shadows’ comes a new and powerful documentary, ‘Eyes of the Orangutan’. A captivating exploration of one of the most troubling facets of modern wildlife tourism, and an uplifting celebration of one of our closest living relatives: the orangutan. |
19 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Wild Relatives | 2018 | Female | Unrated | Doc | 70 mins | Direct via Artists | Contact via Lux https://lux.org.uk/artist/jumana-manna/ | Digital | https://www.jumanamanna.com/Wild-Relatives | Deep in the earth beneath the Arctic permafrost, seeds from all over the world are stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to provide a backup should disaster strike. Wild Relatives starts from an event that has sparked media interest worldwide: in 2012 an international agricultural research center was forced to relocate from Aleppo to Lebanon due to the Syrian Revolution turned war, and began a laborious process of planting their seed collection from the Svalbard back-ups. Following the path of this transaction of seeds between the Arctic and Lebanon, a series of encounters unfold a matrix of human and non-human lives between these two distant spots of the earth. It captures the articulation between this large-scale international initiative and its local implementation in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, carried out primarily by young migrant women. The meditative pace patiently teases out tensions between state and individual, industrial and organic approaches to seed saving, climate change and biodiversity, witnessed through the journey of these seeds. |
20 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | The Last Animals | 2017 | Female | 12A | Doc | 87 mins | Direct via film team | info@thelastanimals.com | Digital | https://thelastanimals.com/ | Conflict photographer Kate Brooks turns her lens from the war zones she is used to covering to a new kind of genocide- the killing of African elephants and rhinos – in this sweeping and sobering expose of an underreported crisis. As the single -digit population of Northern White Rhinoceros ticks closer to zero, Brooks outlines the myriad factors contributing to the current epidemic of highly effective poaching and trafficking syndicates, drawing startling connections between the illegal wildlife trade and international terrorism and border security. But all is not yet lost- at the same time, Brooks documents the heroic efforts of conservationists, park rangers, and scientists to protect these animals on the verge of extinction in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. The result is a potent plea for worldwide attention and action to combat the permanent loss of these majestic creatures. |
21 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Elephant | 2020 | Male / Female | G | Doc | 1 hr 26 mins | Disney | Currently on Disney Plus, but not clear where to book theatrically | Unknown | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRjte6XudL8 | African elephant Shani and her spirited son Jomo set out on an epic journey with their herd, traveling hundreds of miles across the vast Kalahari Desert from the Okavango delta to the Zambezi River. |
22 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Blackfish | 2013 | Female | 15 | Doc | 83 mins | Dogwoof | tom@dogwoof.com | DCP, Bluray, MP4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLOeH-Oq_1Y | The story of Tilikum, a captive killer whale that has taken the lives of several people, underscores problems within the sea-park industry, man's relationship to nature, and how little has been learned about these highly intelligent mammals. |
23 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Born To Be Free | 2016 | Female | N/A | Doc | 74 mins | Dogwoof | tom@dogwoof.com | DCP, Digital | https://sales.dogwoof.com/born-to-be-free?_gl=1*1mie6xa*_gcl_au*MTk4MjY0MDQ1MS4xNzUyODQ5OTcx | BORN TO BE FREE is a revelatory investigative film made by three intrepid, free-diving journalists Gaya, Tanya and Julia, about the global trade in wild sea mammals. Their journey takes us to the most remote corners of Russia and witnesses, for the very first time, the shocking treatment that whales, dolphins and walruses are subjected to as we discover the corruption at the heart of this cruel international business. |
24 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Every Little Thing | 2024 | Female | N/A | Doc | 93 mins | Dogwoof | tom@dogwoof.com | Digital | https://releasing.dogwoof.com/every-little-thing | A film of joy and wonder, EVERY LITTLE THING offers profound truths in a deceptively simple story. What does it mean to care for another, and what impact does this act have on us? In tending to these fragile yet resilient hummingbirds, Terry Masear finds a sense of healing from her own past. Her diminutive patients — brought into sharp focus through breathtaking, beautifully detailed photography — become memorable protagonists in their own right. The viewer becomes emotionally invested in Cactus, Jimmy, Wasabi, Alexa, and Mikhail, celebrating their small victories and lamenting their tiny tragedies. The compassion and empathy that Masear shows her Lilliputian charges serves as a lesson to us all — a reminder that in the smallest of acts, and in the tiniest of creatures, we might find grace. |
25 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Gorillas in the Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey | 1988 | Male | 15 | Biopic/drama | 129 mins | Filmbank | https://www.filmbankmedia.com/films/archive/details/4571-gorillas-in-the-mist | DVD | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PPSIwe7sb8 | The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them. |
26 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Grizzly Man | 2005 | Male | 15 | Doc | 1 hr 44 mins | Filmbank | https://www.filmbankmedia.com/films/archive/details/32790-grizzly-man | DVD | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWA7GtDmNFU | A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska. |
27 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | The Champions | 2015 | Female | Not rated | Doc | 1 hr 30 mins | Firefly Film Works | darcy@fireflyfilmworks.com | Digital, DCP | http://www.championsdocumentary.com/watch-the-trailer | The Champions is an inspirational story about the pit bulls rescued from the brutal fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcon’s star quarterback Michael Vick, and those who risked it all to save them, despite pressure from PETA and The Humane Society of the United States to euthanize the dogs. It is a story of second-chances, redemption and hope. This uplifting documentary takes us on a journey about much more than just dogs—about prejudice, being misunderstood, the power of resilience, and the significance of the relationship we as humans have with animals. |
28 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Born to be Free | 2016 | Female | Unrated | Doc | 1 hr 14 mins | Formerly Dogwoof, currently unavailable | DVD | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCb3XBHh_tA | Revelatory investigative film made by three intrepid, free-diving journalists Gaya, Tanya and Julia, about the global trade in wild sea mammals. | |
29 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Jane | 2017 | Male | PG | Doc | 1 hr 30 mins | Formerly Dogwoof, currently unavailable | DVD/Blu Ray | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRlUJrEUn0Y | The life and work of the renowned primatology scientist, Jane Goodall, especially on her research about chimpanzees. | |
30 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | The Vanishing of the Bees | 2017 | Male / female | U | Doc | 1 hr 37 mins | Formerly Dogwoof, currently unavailable | DVD | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze9qxhQ65O4 | This documentary takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee. The film examines our current agricultural landscape and celebrates the ancient and sacred connection between man and the honeybee. The story highlights the positive changes that have resulted due to the tragic phenomenon known as "Colony Collapse Disorder." To empower the audience, the documentary provides viewers with tangible solutions they can apply to their everyday lives. Vanishing of the Bees unfolds as a dramatic tale of science and mystery, illuminating this extraordinary crisis and its greater meaning about the relationship between humankind and Mother Earth. The bees have a message - but will we listen? | |
31 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Tyke Elephant outlaw | 2015 | Male / Female | Unrated | Doc | 1 hr 18 mins | Formerly Dogwoof, currently unavailable | DVD | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvtW1dtuAcE | The life of Tyke, a circus elephant who went on a rampage in 1994 in Honolulu and died in a hail of gunfire. Her former trainers, witnesses to her rampage, and animal rights activists discuss the use of animals in the entertainment industry. | |
32 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | A River Below | 2017 | Male | Unrated | Doc | 86 mins | Grasshopper Film | http://grasshopperfilm.com/contact/ | Digital | https://grasshopperfilm.com/film/a-river-below/ | A documentary as dramatic, ambiguous, and multilayered as any fiction film, A River Below examines the efforts of two conservationists in the Amazon to bring about change by using the national media, only to discover the consequences of their actions come with a high price. Compelling and morally complex, the film may be a perfect movie for the post truth era of alternative facts. A River Below is about the power of video and its complicated relationship to the truth. What does it take to get a story? What is required for people to take action? A River Below provides an eye-opening look at what happens when passion and opinion trump reason and morality. The crux of the story questions the truth in images, its manipulation to get the public’s attention and, ultimately, who pays the price for someone else’s passion for radical change. Would you be willing to sacrifice the thing you love to save the the planet? |
33 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Chasing a Walrus (With a Stubborn Photographer) | 2023 | Male | Unrated | Doc | 49 mins | Journeyman Films | bookings@journeyman.tv | Digital | https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8395 | When a film team travel to Greenland to film walrus underwater, it feels like an exciting but perfectly normal assignment. But a pack of hungry polar bears have different ideas. With the ice melted, and the walrus no-where to be seen, filmmakers Simon Stanford and Göran Ehlmé find themselves at the mercy of these arctic predators—fighting for survival in a habitat on the brink of collapse. |
34 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Silent Forests | 2019 | Female | Unrated | Doc | 110 mins | Journeyman Films | booking@journeyman.tv | Digital | https://www.journeyman.tv/film/7623/silent-forests | More than half of the Central-African forest elephant population has been decimated by poachers in the last decade. Following one of Cameroon’s first female eco-guards, a grassroots law enforcement group, a Congolese biologist, a reformed poacher and a Czech activist, this intimate, character-driven portrait gains remarkable access to an under-reported region, the Congo Basin, to understand the global poaching and ivory trade crises we face. |
35 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Stroop: Journey into the Rhino Horn War | 2018 | Female | Unrated | Doc | 133 mins | Journeyman Films | booking@journeyman.tv | Digital | https://www.journeyman.tv/film/7447/stroop-journey-into-the-rhino-horn-war | A 4 year investigation into South Africa's rhino poaching crisis involved going against some of the most nasty criminal networks. Alongside the rangers in South Africa’s rhino sanctuaries, the filmmakers move directly into the firing line. Then to Asia where Stroop asks whether there's any basis to the horn's popularity as a cancer cure? This epic investigation exposes a unique panorama of the global trade in rhino horn. |
36 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Pet Farm | 2025 | Male | Unrated | Doc | 82 mins | Journeyman Pictures | bookings@journeyman.tv | Digital | https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8778 | Inspired by a 1970s Russian science experiment on fox domestication, Joakim embarks on the art of selective breeding and intricate training, realizing his childhood dream of owning his own pack of foxes. However, his pet project abruptly halts when local authorities declare the farm a violation of wildlife law, threatening to euthanize his beloved fox pack. To what extent will Joakim go to protect what he holds dear? |
37 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | One Whale | 2024 | Male | Unrated | Doc | 79 min | Journeyman Pictures | bookings@journeyman.tv | Digital | https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8595 | Whale hunting is a matter of life or death for the residents of St. Lawrence, a tiny island in the Bering Sea. So, when Chris Apassingok becomes the youngest person to harpoon a whale for his village, his mother proudly shares the news online. To her surprise, thousands of keyboard activists brutally attack Chris. A thrilling, heartwarming story of one family’s struggle to sustain Indigenous values in the modern world. |
38 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Collision | 2022 | Male | Unrated | Doc | 84 min | Journeyman Pictures | bookings@journeyman.tv | Digital | https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8668 | A rise in shipping traffic is endangering our oceans, its inhabitants, and the planet. This doc exposes the fatal impact of vessel collisions on whales — a severely underreported threat to their already endangered survival. It not only highlights the crisis, but also presents clear, practical solutions, urging governments and international shipping companies to claim responsibility to prevent further devastation. |
39 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Escape from Extinction | 2020 | Male | TBC | Doc | 90 mins | Kaleidoscope | daniel@kaleidoscopefilmdistribution.com | DVD | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqx_3F_TyRw | A powerful feature from one the world’s leading protector of animals, American Humane, narrated by Academy Award winner, Dame Helen Mirren. |
40 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Escape from Extinction: Rewilding | 2024 | Male | 12 | Doc | 91 mins | Kaleidoscope | daniel@kaleidoscopefilmdistribution.com | https://kaleidoscopefilmdistribution.com/films/escape-from-extinction-rewilding/ | The earth is rapidly approaching a sixth mass extinction event, with a quarter of all species under threat. However, there is still hope. Armed with a radical new vision known as ‘rewilding’, follow the world’s top environmental leaders on a spectacular journey across six continents as they work to rebuild ecosystems, restore biodiversity, and even transform lives. From the cloud forests of Rwanda to the California coast, this bold new approach to wildlife conservation is not without its challenges. However, it may just be the solution to finding a sustainable balance between our delicate natural world and the demands of a growing human population. | |
41 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Meat the Future | 2023 | Female | Unrated | Doc | 88 mins | Met Film | ella@metfilmstudio.com | Digital | https://meatthefuture.com/trailer/ | Imagine a world where real meat is produced sustainably without the need to breed, raise and slaughter animals. This is no longer science fiction, it’s now within reach. At the forefront of this urgent frontier is Mayo Clinic trained cardiologist Dr. Uma Valeti, the co-founder and CEO of Upside Foods (previously Memphis Meats), the leading start-up of the “cultivated” meat revolution. From the world’s first meatball which cost $18,000 per pound to the first chicken fillet and duck a l'orange for half the cost, the film follows Valeti and his team over five years as the cost of production plummets, and consumers’ eye the imminent birth of this timely industry. Exploring a game-changing solution, Meat the Future is narrated by Jane Goodall and features music by Moby. |
42 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | From the Wild Sea | 2021 | Female | 14+ | Doc | 78 mins | Mette Bjerregaard | mebj@dr.dk | Digital | https://fromthewildsea.com/ | FROM THE WILD SEA is a poetic documentary film that zooms in on the complex collision between human and nature. We are taken on a disturbing and fascinating journey into the emerging Anthropocene Era, seen from both the human and animal perspective. As humans attempt to rescue marine creatures, each individual animal looks back at us with inquisitive eyes. Through an intimate visual experience that follows the animals through rehabilitation, we get to see and sense the world we humans have created: Right before our eyes, an estranged and most curious place. |
43 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Virunga | 2014 | Male | 15 | Doc Feature | 100 mins | Originally distributed by Netflix, currently unclear | Disc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxXf2Vxj_EU | A team of brave individuals risk their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas. | |
44 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Born Free | 1965 | Male | U | Drama | 91 mins | With Park Circus but rights due to expire soon / Filmbank | info@parkcircus.com | DCP available, Disc license also available | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1wpbCbPP7U | The true story of George and Joy Adamson and the orphaned lion cub, Elsa, they adopt. |
45 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Project Nim | 2011 | Male | 12 | Doc | 1 hr 35 mins | Park Circus / Filmbank | info@parkcircus.com | DCP available, Disc license also available | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ3d0PczpC4 | Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s. |
46 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Meat Me Halfway | 2021 | Male | 16+ | Doc | 1 hr 20 mins | Reducetarian Productions | https://www.meatmehalfway.org/ | DVD/Digital | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFKEMBtXlIk&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.meatmehalfway.org%2F&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt | The path to going plant-based has obvious upsides, but can also be isolating and difficult. Shouldn't there be some middle ground for people looking to make a change without totally upending their lives? Leader of the Reducetarian Movement, Brian Kateman explores this issue through the lens of his own personal decision to reduce eating meat. Grappling with how to sort through conflicting advice, Brian seeks a practical path forward. |
47 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Crannog | 2018 | Female | Unrated | Doc | 15 mins | Scottish Documentary Institute | alexandra@scottishdocinstitute.com | DCP, Digital Files | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bREez4zhzLA | Crannog follows Alexis as she tries to nurse a neglected sheep back to health. A quiet reflection on kindness in the face of death, the film explores the fragility and strength that comes from dedicating your life to the care of others. |
48 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | If Turtles Could Talk | 2022 | Male | Unrated | Doc | 20 mins | Scottish Documentary Institute | alexandra@scottishdocinstitute.com | Digital Files | https://vimeo.com/736656833?share=copy pw: EAS2022 | Jumba beach is an area inhabited by exotic marine life, green sea turtles, and the fishermen who poach them. Three locals do everything in their power to protect the endangered species. |
49 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Miezi Kumi | 2022 | Male | Unrated | Doc | 11 mins | Scottish Documentary Institute | alexandra@scottishdocinstitute.com | Digital Files | https://vimeo.com/736653076?share=copy pw: EAS2022 | MIEZI KUMI (TEN MONTHS) is a short documentary of the love between Zacharia Mutai, his family and the last two northern white rhinos, which he has to take care of for ten months in a year. |
50 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | The Cove | 2009 | Male | 12 | Doc | 89 mins | Vertigo / Filmbank | https://www.filmbankmedia.com/films/archive/details/19460-the-cove | Blu Ray/DVD | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KRD8e20fBo | Nearly 23,000 dolphins are brutally slaughtered every year in The Cove, at the Taiji National Park (Japan), to sell their meat for food –in spite of its high levels of mercury –and sell them alive for dolphinaria around the world, like Seaworld, with succulent benefits. Having won an Oscar for Best Documentary 2010, The Cove is a desperate denunciation by best-known dolphin trainer Rick O´Barrey, who denounces the consequences of dolphins and killer whales in captivity as well as their killings that take place for the purpose of trading with these beautiful animals. The film is a blend of activism and spying. An unsettling and revealing documentary film consisting of hidden cameras and undersea microphones which find out about the terrible reality beyond these dolphinaria. Download the discussion guide post screening: http://www.takepart.com/cove/get-involved/index.html |
51 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Cane toads: An Unnatural History | 1988 | Male | PG | Doc / comedy | 47 mins mins | Film Australia | sales@nfsa.gov.au | Unknown | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SBLf1tsoaw | A documentary detailing the spread of Hawaiian sugar-cane toads through Australia in a botched effort to introduce them as counter pests. |
52 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Cane Toads: The Conquest | 2010 | Male | PG | Doc / comedy | 1 hr 25 mins | Film Australia | sales@nfsa.gov.au | Unknown | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InmI4fQKYns | A documentary horror film about the environmental devastation left in the wake of the giant toads' unstoppable march across Australia. |
53 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Earthlings | 2005 | Male | 12A | Doc | 1 hr 35 mins | Nation Earth | connect@nationearth.com | Unknown | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm7Babs_FJU | EARTHLINGS is a 2005 American documentary film about humankind's total dependence on animals for economic purposes. Presented in five chapters (pets, food, clothing, entertainment and scientific research) the film is narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, featuring music by Moby, and was written, produced and directed by Shaun Monson. |
54 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Animal Eye | 2025 | Male | N/A | Doc Short | 13 mins | Direct from filmmaker, Carlo Nasisse | https://carlonasisse.com/contact-1 | Digital | https://carlonasisse.com/la-montaa-copy | Animal Eye presents the perspectives of scientists and philosophers who study non-human animal vision. The film repeatedly confronts the limits of science, filmmaking and philosophy in comprehending and representing how other creatures see. Integrating scientific images generated through ultraviolet capture, polarised and high-speed imaging, infrared light and the tactile texture of 16mm film itself, the film offers a kaleidoscopic encounter with visual worlds beyond our own and perhaps only conceivable within the mind’s eye. In doing so it raises questions of how we engage with the non-human world. By blending scientific method with speculative wonder, Animal Eye challenges viewers to reconsider their ways of seeing, embracing animal visions as forms of thought that resist full comprehension. |
55 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Bloodline | 2025 | Male | N/A | Doc Short | 12 mins | Sales Agent, Bartosz Friese / Munk Studio | b.friese@sfp.org.pl | Digital | https://www.sheffdocfest.com/film/bloodline | Separated from its herd in the Białowieża Forest, a bison becomes a silent witness to the ecological and humanitarian crises unfolding around it. Through the bison’s eyes, Wojciech Węglarz explores the devastating effects of arbitrary national borders and their infrastructure on both humans and nonhumans. Stunning cinematography and meticulous editing evoke a sense of loss, fear and anger, reflecting the broader consequences of political decisions. Bloodline is a haunting and profoundly human meditation on displacement, belonging and the invisible victims of border conflicts. |
56 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Trade Secret | 2025 | Male | N/A | Doc | 98 min | Sales Agent | info@30west.com | Digital | https://www.sheffdocfest.com/film/trade-secret | Trade Secret follows three unlikely allies on a mission to protect polar bears from international commercial trade. Filmed over six years across nine countries, the film exposes the sanctioned sale of hundreds of polar bears each year on the global market. But as the investigation deepens, it uncovers a disturbing truth: those entrusted with safeguarding the species may be entangled in their continued commercialisation. The film raises urgent questions about how we protect vulnerable species in a world where the lines between protection and exploitation have become blurred. |
57 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Milking the Rhino | 2024 | Male | N/A | Doc | 83 mins | Production Company | hello@kartemquin.org | Digital | https://kartemquin.org/film/milking-the-rhino/ | A ferocious kill on the Serengeti… dire warnings about endangered species…These clichés of nature documentaries ignore a key feature of the landscape: villagers just off-camera, who navigate the dangers and costs of living with wildlife on a daily basis. When seen at all, rural Africans are often depicted as the problem – they poach animals and encroach on habitat, they spoil our myth of wild Africa. Milking the Rhino tells a more nuanced tale of human-wildlife coexistence in post-colonial Africa. The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Namibia’s Himba – two of Earth’s oldest cattle cultures – are in the midst of upheaval. Emerging from a century of “white man conservation,” which turned their lands into game reserves and fueled resentment towards wildlife, Himba and Maasai communities are now vying for a piece of the wildlife-tourism pie. Community-based conservation, which tries to balance the needs of wildlife and people, has been touted by environmentalists as “win-win.” The reality is more complex. “We never used to benefit from these animals,” a Maasai host of a community eco-lodge explains. “Now we milk them like cattle!” His neighbor disagrees: “A rhino means nothing to me! I can’t kill it for meat like a cow.” And when drought decimates the grass shared by livestock and wildlife, the community’s commitment to conservation is sorely tested. Charting the collision of ancient ways with Western expectations, Milking the Rhino tells intimate, hopeful and heartbreaking stories of people facing deep cultural change. |
58 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Ellis Park | 2024 | Male | N/A | Doc | 105 min | Conic | hello@conic.film | Digital, DCP | https://www.conic.film/films/ellispark | A key member of iconic bands The Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, multi-instrumentalist and renowned film composer Warren Ellis has cut a brilliant and unorthodox figure in music for over three decades. Far from the international concert halls in which he has plied his craft lies a very different passion project: a wildlife sanctuary in the forests of Sumatra. Co-founded by Ellis and spearheaded by the indomitable Femke den Haas, whose dedicated team of conservationists rescue trafficked and mistreated animals and then devote years to nursing them back to health. This fly-on-the-wall documentary offers both a deeply personal insight into one artist’s life through the act of creating and an inspiring reminder of how much can be achieved when passionate people come together to do great things to impact the world around them. |
59 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Collective Monologue | 2024 | Female | N/A | Doc | 104 mins | Trapecio Cine | https://www.trapeciocine.com.ar/contacto | Digital | https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=collective-monologue-lff24 | Navigating spaces where culture and nature meet, Rinland attends ever-contested institutions of zoo and animal sanctuaries. Blending intimate 16mm shots and surveillance footage, Collective Monologue portrays the complex, multisensorial interactions between the enclosed animals and their carers. This is beautifully atmospheric nonfiction filmmaking, tapping into the spiritual dimension of friendship. |
60 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | The Elephant in the Room | 2024 | Male | N/A | Short Doc | 14 mins | Direct from production company | Contact@unspro.com | Digital | https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/the-elephant-the-room | Anas Qadamani uses a variety of appropriated images belonging to different sources, in order to weave a furious critique of colonialism and its political double standards. Taking as a point of departure the case of African elephants brought to Europe, this essay-film leads us to a more general reflection about the present-day crises that devastate our world and rob it of humanity. |
61 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | All That Breathes | 2022 | Male | 12 | Doc | 94 min | Kiterabbit Pictures | joe@submarine.com | Digital | https://www.allthatbreathes.com/ | In one of the world’s most populated cities, two brothers — Nadeem and Saud — devote their lives to the quixotic effort of protecting the black kite, a majestic bird of prey essential to the ecosystem of New Delhi that has been falling from the sky at alarming rates. Amid environmental toxicity and social unrest, the ‘kite brothers’ spend day and night caring for the creatures in their makeshift avian basement hospital. Director Shaunak Sen (Cities of Sleep) explores the connection between the kites and the brothers who help them return to the skies, offering a mesmerizing chronicle of inter-species coexistence. |
62 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Cats of the Gogoku Shrine | 2024 | Male | N/A | Doc | 119 min | Via Japanese Distrib | info@tongpoo-films.jp | Digital, DCP | https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=cats-of-gokogu-shrine-lff24&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id= | Renowned documentarian Kazuhiro Soda (Inland Sea, Zero) takes us to the coastal town of Ushimado and a shrine where cats have taken up residence. The careful observation of this world allows for reflection on how the community co-exists, from pensioners and schoolchildren to the cats themselves. This warm and thoughtful film encourages us to actively observe and ponder. |
63 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | EO | 2022 | Male | 15 | Fiction Feature | 88 min | BFI | bookings.films@bfi.org.uk | Digital | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBeSQbdXmw&ab_channel=JanusFilms | The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence. |
64 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Watership Down | 1978 | Male | PG | Animated Feature | 88 mins | BFI | bookings.films@bfi.org.uk | DCP, DVD | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S26LA8Bk14&ab_channel=RottenTomatoesClassicTrailers | In rural England, Fiver, a young rabbit receives a frightening vision of his warren’s imminent destruction. When he and his brother fail to convince their chief rabbit of the need to evacuate, they set out on their own, seeking a new home and encountering perils and temptations along the way. |
65 | Biodiveristy and Animal Welfare | Nocturnes | 2024 | Female / Male | U | Doc | 82 mins | Dogwoof | tom@dogwoof.com | DCP, Digital | https://releasing.dogwoof.com/nocturnes | NOCTURNES transports us to the dense forests of the Eastern Himalayas where in the dark of night, two curious observers shine a light on the secret world of moths. An immersive viewing experience of sound and imagery, the film weaves together an intricate and poetic tapestry of our world. Ecologist Mansi sets out on a quest to study moths in one of the most vibrant places on earth. She teams up with Bicki, a young man from the indigenous Bugun community, to seek clues about what the future has in store for the moths. Together, Mansi and Bicki traverse the landscape, meticulously working night after night to put up light screens that transform into a dynamic canvas with moths of varying sizes, designs and textures, creating a painterly effect with their form, movement and color. Meanwhile, the human beings wait, watch and listen with patient anticipation and wonder. By focusing on a small, ephemeral, nocturnal creature like the moth, NOCTURNES seeks to question an human-centric view of the world. The lush forest, throbbing with a vast diversity of life, emerges as a breath-taking character as the film responds to the symphony of sounds and the inherent rhythms of the trees, the wind and the rain. The result is a rare and transformative experience that invites us all to look with more attention and care at the hidden interconnections in nature. |
66 | Biodiversity and Animal Welfare | Cultivating Abundance | 2022 | Female | Unrated | Doc | 63 mins | Direct from Filmmaker | office@potatoperspective. | Digital | https://asasonjasdotter.info/Cultivating-Abundance | With the establishment of the Swedish Seed Association in Svalöv in 1886, a modern method for plant breeding was invented that still today is in use by more or less all plant breeding industries across the globe. The film departs by a series of restored photographs from the very first plant breeding experiments in Svalöv. Further, it follows plant breeder Hans Larsson and the association Allkorn’s work to re-cultivate those grains of traditional farmer-bred varieties that were abandoned with the introduction of modern farming. The film opens for reflection on the consequences this shift in method would come to have for human and more-than-human relations. How can the cultivated relations, that have become so vital to humans, be understood? |
67 | Biodiversity and Animal Welfare | Those That At A Distance Resemble Another | 2019 | Female | Unrated | Experimental Doc | 68 mins | Direct from filmmaker | jrinland2@aol.com | Digital | https://jessicarinland.com/those | With an elephant's ivory tusk as the protagonist, Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another meditates upon the endless tactility of museological and ecological conservation, inviting reflection upon forms of representation, replicas, and embodiments of various materials, disciplines, and institutions. Sculpture of ceramic tusk replica housed at Natural History Museum, London. |
68 | Biodiversity and Animal Welfare | Savages | 2025 | Male | PG | Animated Feature | 87 min | Met Film | ella@metfilmstudio.com | DCP, Digitial | https://www.metfilmstudio.com/distribution/savages | At the edge of Borneo’s lush rainforest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutan from the palm oil plantation where her father works. When her young cousin Selaï arrives—seeking refuge from the clash between his Indigenous community and encroaching loggers—the three form a powerful bond. Together, they discover the joys and dangers of this threatened world. |
69 | Biodiversity and Animal Welfare | Ý Berá - Aguas de Luz (Bright Waters) | 2016 | Female | Unrated | Short Film/Experimental | 10 mins | Direct from filmmaker | jrinland2@aol.com | Digital | https://jessicarinland.com/y-ber-aguas-de-luz | Accounts ranging from varying moments in human history, describe the organisms that inhabit the second largest wetland in the world, Ibera, Argentina. |
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71 | Climate Crisis/Activism | The Great Green Wall | 2020 | Male | 12 | Doc | 92 mins | Alarm Pictures | alex@alarmpictures.com | Digital, DCP | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Vp1DXzVGw | THE GREAT GREEN WALL is a documentary about a project to create a vast line of trees across the continent of Africa in response to the climate crisis. |
72 | Climate Crisis/Activism | David Attenborough - A Life on Our Planet | 2020 | Male | PG | Doc | 83 mins | Unclear (Formerly Altitude) | Digital | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-91umZ7cQE | A documentary in which David Attenborough reflects upon the defining moments of his lifetime and the changes he has seen. | |
73 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Regenerating Life | 2023 | Male | Unrated | Doc | 137 mins | Bullfrog Films | john@bulldogfilms.com | Digital | https://vimeo.com/797064811 | Building on his ground-breaking SYMBIOTIC EARTH John Feldman's new film, REGENERATING LIFE, takes an ecological approach to unraveling the climate crisis. It offers a deeper look at the underlying causes of global warming, going beyond carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels to humankind's relentless destruction of nature in all corners of Earth. Because ultimately it is nature—the vast biodiversity that exists on our planet—that regulates and balances Earth's climate. |
74 | Climate Crisis/Activism | War for the Woods | 2023 | Male | Unrated | Doc / Short | 41 mins | Bullfrog Films | john@bullfrogfilms | Digital | https://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/warw.html | 30 years after the original protests, journalist Stephanie Kwetásel'wet Wood travels to Clayoquot Sound, BC to find out whether Indigenous and environmentalist protesters won the battle but lost the war for old growth forests. |
75 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Ecosophia | 2024 | Male | Unrated | Doc | 77 min | Bullfrog Films | john@bullfrogfilms | Digital | https://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/ecos.html | Some of the wisest ecological minds come together for an honest appraisal of our civilization without greenwash. |
76 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Coral Gardeners | 2024 | Male | Unrated | Doc / Short | 21 min | Bullfrog Films | john@bullfrogfilms | Digital | https://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/coral.html | Follows a novel experiment in the Maldives to regrow coral reefs, which offer protection, food and income. |
77 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Utama | 2022 | Male | U | Drama | 87 mins | Conic (Theatrical)/Cinema for All (Non-Theatrical) | info@cinemaforall.org.uk | DVD, Blu Ray | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeS0_PQmfmA | In the arid Bolivian highlands, Utama follows an elderly Quechua couple who have been living the same daily routine for years. When an uncommonly long drought threatens their entire way of life, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the city. When their grandson arrives with news it brings their predicament into sharp focus as they confront climate change, the value of tradition, and the meaning of life. This visually jaw-dropping debut feature by photographer-turned-filmmaker Alejandro Loayza Grisi is shot by award-winning cinematographer Barbara Alvarez. |
78 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Afire | 2023 | Male | 12 | Fiction Feature | 103 mins | Curzon/Artificial Eye | jamie.mendonca@curzon.com | Digital, DCP | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHzpUE_FCeI | A group of friends in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire. |
79 | Climate Crisis/Activism | My Extinction | 2023 | Male/Female | 15 | Fiction Feature | 80 mins | Dartmouth Films | screenings@dartmouthfilms.com | Digital, DCP | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo2vbrKbCTc | A filmmaker confronts his feelings around climate change and gets involved in a grassroots environmental movement in this British documentary. Its central theme of eco-anxiety is treated with sensitivity and humour. |
80 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Flow | 2024 | Male | U | Animation | 85 min | Curzon/Artificial Eye | jamie.mendonca@curzon.com | Digital, DCP | https://film.curzon.com/film/flow-4k-uhd/#synopsis | A lone cat joins a ragtag group of animals after their home is destroyed by a flood in this fantasy adventure animation. |
81 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Climate Refugees | 2010 | Male | Unrated | Doc | 1 hr 35 mins | Direct | michael.nash@yahoo.com | Digital | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSpDsP58udM | Filmmaker Michael Nash investigates mass migration caused by our changing climate. |
82 | Climate Crisis/Activism | FINITE: The Climate of Change | 2023 | Male | Unrated | Doc | 109 mins | Direct | info@finite-film.com | Digital, DCP | https://www.finite-film.com/ | FINITE: The Climate of Change is an insider’s view of the world of direct action; a raw, authentic and emotional insight into the David and Goliath battle between frontline communities, activists and fossil fuel corporations. In Germany, concerned citizens step forward to save an ancient forest from one of Europe’s largest coal mines. They form an unlikely alliance with a frustrated community in rural England who are forced into action to protect their homes from a new opencast coal mine. |
83 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Humanity Has Not Yet Failed | 2021 | Male | Unrated | Animation / Doc / Short | 8 min | Direct | jaredpaulscott@gmail.com | Digital | https://www.humanityhasnotyetfailed.com/film | Climate activist Greta Thunberg juxtaposes the absurdity of political inaction with the straightforward high-stakes of the climate emergency. |
84 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Motherlode | 2019 | Female | Unrated | Doc | 81 mins | Direct Booking | info@motherloadmovie.com | Digital | http://motherloadmovie.com/welcome | MOTHERLOAD captures a new mother’s quest to understand the increasing isolation and disconnection of modern life, its planetary impact, and how cargo bikes could be an antidote. Filmmaker Liz Canning cycled everywhere until she had twins in 2008. Motherhood was challenging, but to Liz hauling babies via car felt stifling. She Googled “family bike” and uncovered a global movement of people replacing cars with cargo bikes: long-frame bicycles designed for carrying heavy loads. Liz set out to learn more, and MOTHERLOAD was born. |
85 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Thank You For the Rain | 2017 | Female | Unrated | Doc | 1 hr 27 mins | Direct booking | info@banyak.co.uk | Digital, DCP | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO1-Z7kEyzo | Five years ago Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, started to use his camera to capture the life of his family, his village and the damages of climate change. When a violent storm throws him and a Norwegian filmmaker together we see him transform from a father, to a community leader and activist on the global stage. |
86 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Fire Beneath Her | 2024 | Female | Unrated | Short Doc | 25 mins | Direct booking | info@banyak.co.uk | Digital | https://vimeo.com/910186943 | A new fire season crackles to life in Kalimantan as 29-year-old Emmanuela Shinta monitors the air quality and distributes face masks to thousands of villagers expecting the worst. But she knows it is not enough. Each year, the region is prone to deadly fires caused by deforestation, trapping Borneo in a permanent state of ecological crisis. The fires of 2015 were so formidable, the haze could be seen from outer space. Now, climate change events also threaten to exacerbate the tinderbox conditions under the forest floor. Shinta starts raising funds to buy a plot of forest that she hopes will save her village from going up in flames. |
87 | Climate Crisis/Activism | The Oil Machine | 2022 | Female | PG | Doc | 82 mins | Direct Booking (Theatrical)/ Cinema For All (Non-Theatrical) | https://www.theoilmachine.org/contact info@cinemaforall.org.uk | DVD, Digital | https://www.theoilmachine.org/ | The Oil Machine explores our economic, historical and emotional entanglement with oil by looking at the conflicting imperatives around North Sea oil. This invisible machine at the core of our economy and society now faces an uncertain future as activists and investors demand change. Is this the end of oil? The Oil Machine brings together a wide range of voices from oil company executives, economists, young activists, pension fund managers and considers how this machine can be tamed, dismantled, or repurposed. |
88 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Frontier Town | 2023 | Male | Unrated | Short Doc | 30 mins | Direct from filmmaker | tatennant123@gmail.com | Digital | https://www.tomtennant.co.uk/frontier-town | Fairbourne’s residents have been told that by 2054 their village will be decommissioned and left to the sea. As scientists test coastal defences in a lab, villagers on the frontline of the climate crisis confront an uncertain future. |
89 | Climate Crisis/Activism | I Am More Dangerous Dead | 2023 | Male | Unrated | Short Doc | 24 mins | Direct from filmmaker | https://www.majiyeuchibeke.com/contact | Digital | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhxUpxsSN8M | The story of a man largely unknown in the west, but who is a household name and hero to Nigerians. Ken Saro Wiwa was a prolific writer and activist who led the ethnic minority of the Ogoni to protest the devastating effects of oil exploitation on their land. |
90 | Climate Crisis/Activism | The Raft | 2020 | Female | Unrated | Short Experimental | 11 mins | Direct from Filmmaker | salomelamas@hotmail.com | Digital | https://dafilms.com/film/13180-extraction-the-raft-of-the-medusa | Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa is a meditation on humanity’s massive redesign of the planet and a dystopic pamphlet on the anthropocene. Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa portrays a brief moment of euphoria as the drifting occupants on the raft, hoping and praying to be rescued, appear to glimpse a possibility of salvation. We can almost hear the hoarse cries through which they attempt to draw attention to their desperate plight, mustering a final ounce of strength before the void. This is their last chance of survival. Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa refers to the colonial paradigm, worldview, and technologies that mark out regions of high biodiversity in order to reduce life to its conversion into a resource through capitalism, with an enormous environmental and social impact. It is an allegory for states of emergency in environmental policy, climate and migration, with an ethical-political purpose. |
91 | Climate Crisis/Activism | The Veiled City | 2023 | Female | Unrated | Short Film | 13 mins | Direct from Filmmaker | natalie.cubidesbrady@gmail.com | Digital, DCP | https://vimeo.com/746187556/9e3c4c5e90 | The Veiled City is a sci-fi city symphony inspired by London’s Great Smog of 1952. Created from archive footage, the film unfolds through fictional letters from a post-apocalyptic future. |
92 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Aralkum | 2022 | Male/Female | unrated | Short Doc | 13 mins | Direct from filmmakers/Or contact via Climate Culture | https://www.climateculture.earth/contact | Digital | https://www.visionsdureel.ch/de/film/2022/aralkum/ | By interweaving different cinematic textures, Aralkum reveals the impact of human activities on the Aral Sea — a sea turned into a desert. A sensorial experience of disappearance, loss, and memory. |
93 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Consumed | 2019 | Male | unrated | Short Doc | 19 mins | Direct from filmmakers/Or contact via Climate Culture | https://www.climateculture.earth/contact | Digital | https://vimeo.com/531187688 | A cinematic journey through the landscapes, mines and factories of Chinese production. The film reveals the hidden world behind our everyday objects and investigates where humans may fit within this mechanical spectacle. |
94 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Dear Matafele Peinem | 2014 | Female | unrated | Short Doc | 4 mins | Direct from filmmakers/Or contact via Climate Culture | https://www.climateculture.earth/contact | Digital | https://www.climateculture.earth/watch/dear-matafele-peinem | Delivered through powerful spoken word, we are taken on an emotional journey understanding a mother’s ferocity of love for her child and what it means to protect their future |
95 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Future Ancestor | 2020 | Male | unrated | Short Doc | 10 mins | Direct from filmmakers/Or contact via Climate Culture | connect@indigena.io | Digital | https://www.climateculture.earth/watch/future-ancestor | Fueled by prayer and bone broth, Lyla is an unlikely candidate who reveals a new vision for leadership, urging us to “think seven generations ahead |
96 | Climate Crisis/Activism | In Your Palm | 2020 | Male | unrated | Short Doc | 24 mins | Direct from filmmakers/Or contact via Climate Culture | c.kirilenko@gmail.com | Digital | https://www.climateculture.earth/watch/in-your-palm | In a powerful combination of true human stories and striking visuals, In Your Palm exposes the harsh realities for humans living next to large scale palm oil plantations |
97 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Pursuing the Monarchs | 2017 | Female | unrated | Doc | 52 mins | Direct from filmmakers/Or contact via Climate Culture | anna.chahuneau@gmail.com | Digital | https://www.climateculture.earth/watch/pursuing-the-monarchs | An intrepid journey across the front lines of one of Earth’s most treasured species’ battle for survival against rampant deforestation and the devastating practices of industrialized agriculture |
98 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Teach A Man | 2020 | Male | unrated | Short Doc | 14 mins | Direct from filmmakers/Or contact via Climate Culture | https://www.climateculture.earth/contact | Digital | https://www.climateculture.earth/watch/teach-a-man | Through the eyes of fisherman Jason James This film explores the reality of living with fossil fuels - exploring the trickle down effects of pollution throughout society |
99 | Climate Crisis/Activism | Thus Spoke The Sea | 2020 | Male | unrated | Doc | 50 mins | Direct from filmmakers/Or contact via Climate Culture | gabriel.gelin@un.org | Digital | https://www.climateculture.earth/watch/thus-spoke-the-sea | A candid depiction of the challenges and the opportunities that must be seized before it’s too late. |
100 | Climate Crisis/Activism | To Calm the Pig Inside | 2020 | Female | unrated | short Doc | 18 mins | Direct from filmmakers/Or contact via Climate Culture | https://www.climateculture.earth/contact | Digital | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBaven1gAOY | A contemplation of the effects of a typhoon in a Filipino city. A girl weaves in myths and memories, trying to understand how people cope with devastation and trauma. |