What happens when your country is swallowed by the sea? Kiribati, a Pacific atoll republic, will be submerged within decades due to climate change. Anote's Ark explores what it takes to migrate an entire nation with dignity.

The behind the headlines story of what it takes for two Swiss pilots and their team of engineers to accomplish one of the most ambitious feats in aviation history: fly their experimental, solar-powered airplane around the world to prove the potential of clean energy.

Milk is big business. Behind the seemingly innocent foodstuff hides a billion-strong industrial machine. Profit is made at a cost to the environment, animals, farmers and our health. Yet it doesn't have to be this way.

With apparent levity and exploiting with originality and intelligence the formula of the reality television, (A) SOCIAL comes to at least a couple of interesting conclusions. On the one hand, it shows that, in a relatively short space of time, the dependence on information media and their accessories (social networks and apps) has become widespread and consolidated in contemporary society. On the other hand, he underlines how the perception of space and time and, by extension, of real events, today, is linked to the use of mobile devices.

People all over the world are searching for alternatives besides unbridled capitalism, which inherently produces incredibly rich people on the one hand but incredibly poor ones on the other. Is there somewhere a model for a fair society?

For the past two decades Didi Contractor has been passionately implementing her architectural visions in North West of India, the Kangra Valley, at the foot hills of the Himalayas combining rural traditions with modern requirements. This poetic documentary introduces us to her creations – houses built from clay, bamboo, slate and river stone, constructed in tribute to their natural surroundings. At the age of 86, Didi Contractor pursues her vision working day and night – dreaming her designs then designing her dreams. She sketches roughly, then proportions with pinpoint accuracy – the blueprints for economically and ecologically sustainable, bright and well-ventilated buildings. We meet people who live in the visions realized by Didi Contractor and share in their enthusiasm to carry forward her fascinating ideas. Students from all over the world come to learn traditional building practices and find out how architecture can become a part of the ecosystem. „Landscaping is really a key to this thing of marrying the earth to the building. There is a deeper connection which should than strengthen our own connection.“ Didi Contractor

A cinematic letter to a future great-grandchild weaves together a story of personal loss, family and the difference each of us can make in the world. What do we pass on to those who come after us, for both good and for bad? And what difference can one person make in the world? These are the universal questions that occupy director John Webster in this personal cinematic letter to his great-grandchild Dorit, a little girl who will be born in the 2060’s, and who’s little yellow boots will walk on a very different shoreline to the one we knew. The story seamlessly weaves together past, present and future into a beautiful, moving and hopeful documentary film about the power of each of us to make a difference.

Up To The Last Drop follows the money and the corporate interests during a period of four years in thirteen cities of six EU countries. It’s a documentary film about water that reflects contemporary European values and the quality of the current European democracy.

A man, a child, two wars, a river, a tree. A man and a child meet under a tree on a river bank, sharing the same memory and a secret. They find in each other the serenity, the silence and the time they lost in the flowing water of the river.

The animals of a peaceful island are facing a huge problem: a tanker has hit a rock and its oil is pouring into the sea…

What happens when a car stops working? In this documentary we seek to show the process of scrapping, treatment and recycling of vehicles from a completely unknown point of view, that of the car itself.

A car has a bad day in a post-apocalyptic world.

November in Marseille, starlings gather on a crane before their big departure to Africa. The photographic trace, lost with the film, is here reinvented to show the flight of birds under a new aspect.

A look at the beauty of nature and the horrible things we do to it. Direct animation on 16mm found footage.

We get to put ourselves in the shoes of the astronaut who finds the last book from the Earth. What would it tell us?

Year 2070, Don Human gives his wealth to get something more valuable. After a long and complex process, failures, blows and more, finally obtains what I hope for, but for someone else the process will begin again.

In a dystopian future world, covered by desolation and crisis, a man pedals incessantly. Your goal is uncertain and desperate.

How it will look like in 2050 ? When there will be more plastic than fishes in the ocean... there will be no need to eat fish anymore. It will be more convenient to eat plastic directly, bought easily at the Plastic Market in the neighborhoods.

A short encounter with the representatives of eternity: The main actors in this experimental documentation are the material of landscape and architecture. The viewer wanders between the megalithic tomb, the mountains, the quarry and the Zen garden. Following the water, one encounters the temporary consequences of human hands and climate change in the stone landscapes.

How would climate change look like from the perspective of a moss plant? Contrary as to what you might expect from the title, this film isn’t a visual glorification of meat or a light comedy. Quite the contrary. In this experimental short, Johannes Broux presents a visually stunning, contemplative narrative about decline, about how our ecological footprint leaves deep traces on the natural environment. Balancing between macro- and microscopic aesthetics, Broux has searched for a unique visual language to express his environmental awareness.

This a short film/narrative cinematic music video, which tells the story of unconditional love that helps overcome the loss of a loved one and helps one cope with grief. A musical story follows a young man whose heart has been broken due to the lost of a loved one, and he is trying to escape reality. But his surreal experience while in the Chernobyl exclusion zone gives him a chance to discover himself.

In a confused world we discover the last wise men and women where we least imagined them: among the old peasants of southern Europe. Sages of the land recovers the stories and experiences of rural men and women. Through them we discover a cultural, human and geographical world forgotten by modern society. Stories that guard a universal message about the human experience.

A documentary about the loss of engagement with nature and the collapse of the natural world.

Karen initially moved to the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon to lead a „back to the land“ lifestyle with her partner and son. Immediately upon their arrival, they discovered the huge logging sales conducted by the Forest Service which were having disastrous effects on the wildlife and ecosystems of the area. As a result she began a project, that for the past 26 years has not backed down from confronting the US Forest Service regarding their responsibilities to our natural landscape. With the help of her co-founder and hundreds of volunteers, the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project has successfully saved thousands upon thousands of acres of forest from being logged and sold.

Only 30 years ago, in the surroundings of Mexico city, the villagers had to transport water every day, multiple times, only for a small amount. This work recreates this journey.

The water is a metaphorical view of life in the drought of the people living in Pustec by Prespa Lake.

Pedro Marín (Anthony Rivas), an 12-year-old boy, must travel hundreds of kilometers for a little water for his mother Isabel (Mercedes Romero); on your way you will remember the event that happens in your town every 6 months

This film focuses on the life of the Haenyo, the diving women of Jeju in South Korea, with 7 idiomatic expressions from the island. The animated sketches also highlight the musicality of the spoken language.

Axel is a quiet and relaxed young man who usually spends his time enjoying the outdoors, but the sudden appearance of a mysterious clock will be the starting point of a destructive race.

Every day, Ned lives, works, eats and sleeps on his cargo ship. One day, he runs out of food. In order not to starve, he must step out of his comfortable routine.

A man who lives alone on his island goes on an unknown journey caused by rising ocean. After witnessing a catastrophe on the way, he finds hope again with other people.But when the ocean rises again this time he makes an unexpected decision to an another unknown.

A paper boat lands on a small sea which boiling of small lives.

64°N... 12 months... A Pond... Yukon... Canada. The changing moods on a pond over a year through animation and live action.

In a big metropolis, a mysterious character in the fuzzy outlines drowns himself in its thoughts...

An animated film about the relationship between the wind and the flute, and Asian culture, made in collaboration with Grammy nominated flutist Ron Korb. The Flute is played with just breath, Evoking the sound of the wind. The wind that blows the flute, Is the breath of life.

A story of agriculture and a need for change, as told by a bee and its box. Inspired by the research of Blue Dasher Farm in South Dakota, USA.

This is the first 2D cartoon (illustration cell technique) where the Brazilian mascot of forest fire prevention and control, Labareda, gives a true classroom for his friends gang - animals of the cerrado - about the causes and consequences of forest fire, showing that poorly performed everyday life situations constitute a great threat of forest fires that can cause serious impacts to biodiversity, infrastructure and society, and also how to act correctly to enjoy a protected and healthy nature. The animation counts on great wealth of scenographic details and sounds of the Brazilian cerrado.

A film about a new look at our relationship with the waters. What do the waters and the rivers say about us? DETOX SP suggests a change in us and consequently in our rivers and our cities.

In Sacedón the water of the Tagus is more and more a mirage. Everything began to change in the early 1980s, when the Tejo-Segura transfer began. In addition, the Spanish Tagus is still faced with the problem of pollution.

The film "The Patterns of the Ocean" accompanies researchers in Indonesia to find out why manta ray populations are in danger and what everybody, from divers with underwater cameras to people living far away from the sea, can do to help save these iconic ocean giants from extinction.

A documentary for television that traces the thinking and trajectory of Ailton Krenak, a native indigenous leader from Minas Gerais, descendant of the Krenak ethnic group, formerly called Botocudos. After studying in São Paulo, Ailton was active in the defense of indigenous peoples. When traveling through Brazil and around the world, he became a kind of ambassador of the original Brazilian cultures. The film features images and testimonials of Ailton at different times in his life, as well as other characters that are part of his universe.

The wild Russian artist and boat captain, Alexander Ponomarev follows his bold dream to create the first Biennale in Antarctica. His vision is an expedition: a convergence of international artists and visionaries in a paramount icy backdrop, which catalyzes creation and opens a unique space for debate about the future of humanity and responsibility towards the planet.

From left to right, the Portuguese political country says it regards the interior as a national cause. The report shows how the gap between the coast and the interior was dug and drew the line separating the country.

A serie of five episodes about how we feed ourselves today in a big city and the search for more sustainable solutions for the future. The work consists of five episodes gathered on a special page.

The world’s most consumed fruit has an untold story. The industrialization of the humble tomato preceded the globalized economy that was to follow. It is now as much of a commodity as wheat, rice, or petrol. The tomato’s ability to create strongly identifiable products, such as ketchup, pizza sauce, soups, sauces, drinks or frozen dishes is unbeatable. As early as 1897, ten years before Ford started to mass produce cars, Heinz was already converting tomatoes into standardized cans of puree. They were one of the first companies to understand the power of branding. They banned unions, imposed uniform standards of production and established genetic laboratories that ensured identical tomato plantations all around the world. Today, wherever you are in the world, you can eat the same tomatoes. This film will trace the journey of tomato paste from Africa, Italy, China and America to show the consequences of this global business.

"Once you would go to the countryside and enjoy its fresh air, now you go to the countryside for its illegal dumps, and to check if some criminal has hidden toxic stuff among the bushes". Instead of enjoying their pensions and taking care of their aches and pains, three inexhaustible old folks sweep the countryside devastated by abandoned industrial facilities and illegal dumps. They cope with illegal garbage disposal, toxic waste, and institutions often overtaken by the events.

On returning to Palermo, the director finds an illegal dump in front of his window. For him it becomes an obsession as the murder for Jeff in Hitchcock’s film and the metaphor of a world full of garbage. It marks the start of an investigation which brings him to discover the solution: Zero Waste.

From the heart of the Amazon rain forest to our European laboratories, climatologists, biologists and chemists are exploring and are starting to understand a mystery: the central role of forests in cloud formation. Spectacular images will illustrate a strong ecological message and increase awareness of the danger that deforestation represent.

Antonio has been using his herd of "sapping goats" for many years to clean the Serra da Estrela forest. Despite the efforts, the Covão village, where he lives isolated with his wife and two-year-old son, was devastated by the fires. Jan Jansen is a dutchman, but he have a ‘lusitanian soul’. This botanist and environmentalist came to Portugal to help us and for try to understand why our forests have burned, how we can prevent fires, what we must do to repair the damage and what we have to plant in the areas destroyed by the flames last year. On this trip throw heart of Serra da Estrela, we also accompanied researchers, geologists, biologists and young entrepreneurs committed to saving Serra da Estrela, a passion unique, and candidate to UNESCO World Heritage.

3.6 million kg of food is wasted daily around the world. 870 million people could be fed only with this waste. 800 million people have hungry on our Planet. 1/3 of the planet's food will go to waste when 198,000 acres were used to produce all the food wasted. This documentary is about individual lifestyles with conscious repercussions on the collective. Because from the point of view of nature there is no waste. It is the symbiosis of life. A whole made up of interdependent variables, each with its cause and reaction. Freeganismo is an alternative lifestyle based on the boycott of capitalism, with a view to reducing the impact on the environment and rejecting any form of human and animal exploitation. They do so through limited and resource-conscious consumption, as well as the recovery (re-use) of waste. Not out of necessity. But because they believe that society produces above their needs and possibilities, in order to give continuity to a consumer society and illusory growth.

The monoculture of eucalyptus trees is one of the main causes of the fire in Pedrógão Grande (Portugal), which in June 2017 caused numerous victims and the destruction of 53,000 hectares of wooded area. From the testimonies of the survivors and from a reporter to the analysis of zootechnical and environmental engineer João Camargo, which with extreme precision combines history, actuality, botany, climatology and economy, the environmental and social risks of a forest policy dedicated to monoculture are illustrated . That is why the history of those who have taken their village to a reconversion in the name of biodiversity is even more precious, seeking a solution of the low for the change of ruinous and inadequate paradigms.

Kalunga is the word of Kimbundo that means Sea, but also Immensity and Death. Three international surfers take up the challenge: to travel the coast of Angola from north to south and discover a country that the war has hidden for 40 years. A trip in which surfing reveals what is beyond the waves, taking on an experience of cultural fusion, symbiosis with nature and a tool of social inclusion.

Dark and luminous, this experience had everything: sleeping on the ground for days without seeing marine life, discovering a village in a lunar landscape, an underwater paradise that turns into a hell full of sharks, then the bonanza with endless days of diving, fishing and wonderful coexistence with the local population, hands cut off, in this case, a virgin bank 35 meters and a 4 meter blanket that accompanied David for two hours. A sensationalist would say it was breathtaking. We at least ensured that all underwater footage was made in apnea.

Heloisa wins a collection of Super-8 movies with images of "Sete Quedas", a natural paradise destroyed in the early 80's for the construction of the largest hydroelectric dam in the world. Talking about the construction of the plant, held at the height of the Brazilian military regime, awakens memories of a past immersed in political and economic authoritarianism. Projections, maps and photos are used as first bridges to reach the past. But it is the inevitable gift that strikes Alvaro and Heloisa when, faced with the troubled political situation in Brazil today, each one is placed in an opposite point.

Taking part in a popular expression from the Douro and Trás-os-Montes, it is a journey between the people rooted in the land that sustains them hunger and devotees in the faith that points them to the skies, in a reflection on the human condition based on three vertices: the relation with the Earth, the Faith and the Progress.

This film portrays experiences of a town and a village in a region of northeastern Portugal in the general environment of accelerated desertification of the interior and villages in the present time. In the interior of the country, time has long passed and all have forgotten those who dared to stay in the countryside. And the exodus is not only human. Schools, pharmacies, courier services, health centers, carriers, police and courts, were disappearing from the Interior. All that remains is the lonely, abandoned villages and the memories of the forest house, of misfortunes and sorrows, of fear and games, of songs and dances, of hope. Based on the book by Manuel Rodas "Manual de Ramil", 2014;

At the end of the 19th century, rural workers in Portugal began a courageous struggle for better working conditions.

In love with Trás-os-Montes and inspired by his Guide of Portugal, Miguel looks for stories to make his first documentary. One day, the appearance of a man on a donkey will change his destiny.

A sensorial record of affinity and enmity relations with fire in the conservation of the Cerrado biome. In the company of local residents hired to act as brigadiers and, more recently, as management agents, the short film explores the affects established with fire amid the pyrofobias of combat and the pyrophilia of the handling. In addition to documenting firefighting and manipulation techniques, the cinematic experiment points to a visual rather than a human anthropology, where environmental forces such as heat, vegetation, and wind compose an alterity whose condition remains ambiguous.

October 15, 2017: In one day, 190 thousand hectares of forest were burned in central and northern Portugal. "And Vento Ardeu," experimental video-art, interprets the experiences of the author, as a local inhabitant, of loss and convalescence following the atypical, controversial fires of that day.

Animation film that mixes images in time lapse manual, with animation in digital painting and 2D, where the filters were applied individually. Eclecticism and digital craftsmanship have created a conceptual approach to the mother of all of us: water.

With Africa's second largest mangrove area, Mozambique is now witnessing the unsustainable extraction of its resources. This destruction begins to have an impact on the climate and subsistence of families who have always used mangrove.

The summer heat shimmers. A group of friends drives to the forest. Their bodies are packed tightly into the car, four on the backseat and two up front. In the woods they happen upon a snake. The snake coils itself around the young man’s foot. The girl holds it in her hands. Two men eat peaches. The men kiss. After the kiss, the day is over.The composition of the group in a picture frame recalls the early films of Asghar Farhadi, in which time and again the individual is also faced with the group. The staging of youth is modern and at the same time their gazes and gestures reference Baroque painting, without ever losing sight of the present day. In four chapters, 21-year-old David Vincente appropriates the beginning of all of the stories of the monotheistic religions and gives it a fresh interpretation. Reframing his-story.

Peter leaves behind his established life and departs without destiny. A truck driver drives his truck. Pierre works in his bar. The three are in a city in the interior of Brazil: time is suspended in a night of shared solitude. Existentialist bodies guided by chance. The past whispers but you can not hear her words. A coin takes its lot. When all is lost, there will be no reason to fear. There is only danger for one who does not abandon himself.

Ivo Moura is a man with a purpose but nature deviates him from his path.

In Alfaião, as in any village, there is always a lot of heat despite the cold and the rain falling from time to time.

Some people ran. Other people died. The Fire of October 15, 2017 in the central region of Portugal, took almost everything. The memories remained.

2017, an unprecedented year for the consequences of fires in Portugal. A combination of climacteric and human factors created the perfect storm! A year later this balance is still not closed.

October 15, 2017 was the darkest day ever for the county of Oliveira do Hospital and several counties in the region. A fire never seen before took 50 human lives and left a trail of destruction unimaginable. We heard the reports in the first person from whom this tragedy lived. We have been accompanying the authorities and experts over the last three months to find out how it was possible for the fire to carry almost everything in the largest pyro-convective phenomenon recorded in Europe to date and the largest in the world in 2017.

This is the fourth short film of local artists, Luis Antero and Tiago Cerveira, and it speaks of a present time, where the space around us whispers to us the poetry of the moment, in a visual and sound landscape transfigured.

Everything seems perfect, the rivers run abundant water, the air has never been so pure, the afforestation is healthy and people enjoy the desired environment around them until they realize that all this is just a dream, in the real world the rivers are almost dry, there is a lack of water in people's homes, the forest has been replaced by a black robe and rocks, the air is almost unbreathable and everyone is in despair and trying to find a way to survive a world virtually apocalyptic. The goal will be to go back to sleep so that you can dream back to the world in perfect conditions. The conclusion is simple, it was the Man who managed to transform what was good on the planet in a dream almost unattainable.

This film shot this June in Gois, Lousã and Arganil - about the issue of deforestation in Portugal and human relationship with the forest. The film includes 12 interviews with Portuguese and International people living on the land in the area, some of which have been affected by the fires of October in Gois. The film is also part of a larger project, which took place in Gois in May-June with a exhibition of visual works and a sensory experience in one of the local forests which I managed to find.

It´s a journey through the Serra da Estrela, in its purest state. Feel the Star - "Close to Heaven down to Earth" Serra da Estrela - "Star Mountain Range" is the highest mountain range in Continental Portugal 1,993 metres (6,539 feet) above mean sea level.