In a small fishing village in Indonesia, Joko (47), a veteran fisherman, is struggling to catch fish. The contamination of the industrial activities and the plastic pollution in the coastal area, have contributed to reduce the fish population and have made the fishermen’s jobs difficult. Joko’s son, Putra (17), is constantly connected to his phone. He has decided to study to become a mechanical engineer. With this decision, the family fishing tradition will definitely get lost.

Carlo is a boy who is seriously ill. He is very passionate about Jesus. Ugo is in his forties, atheist, and communist, and with economic problems, he decides to take part in a mysterious casting. That’s how Ugo, plays the role of the biggest superhero of all time: Super Jesus.

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The portrait of Amsterdam that captures the last remaining interstitial spaces of the city. The film zooms in on the unique qualities of the spaces that at the first glance are unattractive, abandoned, and overall perceived as negative revealing their unique microcosms.

A young Huichol woman cannot find food and peyote for her community; mining companies have polluted the water, poisoning plants and animals. Having no other choice, the inhabitants of her community have decided to leave her land. Her grandmother entrusts her with planting the last remaining peyote seeds, but she will have to decide between planting them or leaving the community.

When the night falls, Adrian cries rivers of tears. Forced into exile, he will discover the world, between wars and miracles.

Ara had always believed she would disappear at twenty-eight years old. With that birthday approaching, she pursues the most basic feelings of existence in the water, the sun and the sublime. The state of trance is a wholesome place, alien-like, pervaded by invisible forces. When Ara realizes where her belief came from, she's propelled to catharsis: does she disappear?

On a day when temperatures rise relentlessly, a woman finds herself stuck in her car. Her only salvation is the air conditioning, until the car turns off.

In a world without food and overgrown with plastic, Zigle Clinic tests a new food re-education Method, which is coveted by many but granted to few. Giulia is one of the patients chosen by the Clinic. Even if she is fearful at first, she gets increasingly involved and joins the group sessions under the guidance of Isotta, the exuberant nurse. Nursery rhymes and deceiving words of encouragement hide an inconceivable truth.

Social leaders from Zona Bananera fase mighty landowners who are seizing water to irrigate their banana crops, leaving entire towns dry. The community and farmer leaders mobilize and despite putting their lives at risk, they will not rest until they achieve what should be for everyone: fair access to water.

One mountain is special, but a mountain with glacier is magic. The snow perpetuated since decades back, will endure for generations, but just in the oral tradition. This documentary leads us towards an adventure that covers some of those few white summits that still remain but today in pathway of extinction; as a Colombian, as it´s gallant caretakers. In each step of ascent and in each view to the horizon, it will be discovered the magic from these millenary environmental patrimonies, today more threatened than ever but miraculously subsisting. To our misfortune and that of the communities that have supported since their origins, the global climate crisis accelerated by humanity itself, has also included them in its disastrous destruction list. But the glaciers never had been alone. throughout this history we will get to know up closely the lives devoted to protecting and documenting the existence of these cultures of landscape and life. A peasant woman from Boyacá, a biologist from Tolima, a Caldas glaciologist and a young indigenous form Huila; they will share us their experiences from soul. They seem to be chosen by the same nature to be soldiers with bigs coats like armor. They are… ¨The children of ice

A near future in any country. Refugee 28312 and her baby manage to reach a cold and hostile cabin controlled by a machine. The cabin serves as an anteroom to access the raft that can carry Refugee and her child to the other side. Refugee 28312 has enough Units to pay for the ticket, but the machine decides Refugee 28312 is not suitable to go on board.

I remember that as a child I thought you could see everything from here.

In the midst of a heat wave, a family spends an afternoon at the beach to celebrate the birthday of their son Gabriel. But nothing will go as planned.

Building a house is not just about making walls, but about designing a different life. The architect and bio-constructor Hanno Burtscher faces the personal challenge of reforming his childhood home while seeking to expand the limits of an ancient technique called "rammed earth". Hanno explores the potential offered by construction with earth to demonstrate all its virtues, both ecological and healthy for humanity. And in this process he is accompanied by his second family, a multidisciplinary work team from different latitudes. Along with them, Hanno reflects on his greatest wish; “Improve the way we live starting with our home”.

Bartomeu, a retired man who quietly cultivates his terraces beneath the Sierra de Tramuntana, is attacked by a drone that steals his privacy and calm. The farmer will have to fight the flying machine to restore peace and be able to enjoy his orchard again.

It's evening, a little girl is in bed, her mother is reading her "Goldilocks and the three bears". But the little girl doesn't seem to like it. She doesn't understand that bears are made to "talk", or rather, that we « talk » for them. The mother goes in search of a bear.

Annegret’s life was turned upside down after her beloved dog Donny died. Apart from the painful emptiness caused by Donny’s passing, she was especially hurt by friends questioning her grief for a “mere animal”. Though we rarely resemble our animals closer than in death, we actively avoid to confront ourselves with this unpleasant part of our relationship. Silence remains tries to approach this tender topic emphatically and sets out to give it a dimension closer to our own, human mortality.

Betty Vásquez Rivera, lives in a community in Honduras that was affected by hurricanes Eta and Iota, together with other women, they organize to resist the extractive projects in their territory. María Caal, a Mayan Q'eqchi' land defender, is part of "La Resistencia" where several families oppose a hydroelectric plant that has blocked the rivers in their communities. Betty lives in Honduras, María in Guatemala, without knowing each other, one clarity unites them: the defence of the rivers in her territories.

Yomaidy lives in a town in the Colombian jungle. She accumulates days between school, the river and her house. But she has the silent certainty that she doesn't belong to that place. If everything is hostile to her in this cage of trees, what horizon will she be able to fix her eyes?

Cru comes to Planet Earth to analyse its composition and the behaviour of its living beings. During his trip, he will meet a group of friends who love hardcore music and party all night long. This chance meeting will change Cru's plans, and the future of the entire known and unknown universe.

2019. Spring flooding in Mississippi hits record highs. In Louisiana, the residents of Pierre-Part are preparing for the worst. Barring an unexpected turn of events, local authorities will soon be forced to open the floodgates of the Morganza Spillway, in order to save the cities of New- Orleans and Bâton-Rouge from further uncontrolled flooding. Faith and resilience are the two best weapons they still have in the face of uncertainty.

Shortly after the middle of the 19th century, when the first English travellers saw the Pale di San Martino, they were struck by the beauty of this Dolomite group, most of whose peaks were still to be climbed. From that moment on, the race to conquer them began. The first to be reached, in 1870, was the Cimon della Pala (3184 m), defined by John Ball as the Matterhorn of the Dolomites. Shortly afterwards it was the turn of Sass Maor, Pala di San Martino, Cima Canali and before the century of great revolutions ended all the main peaks of the Pale had been reached. Those aristocratic mountaineers were guided to the peaks by farmers and hunters from the Primiero area who, although driven by different interests, formed legendary groups which have made the history of mountaineering. On 10 August 2021, Peter Moser linked six of the main peaks of the Pale di San Martino in a single day. Inspired by the pioneers of mountaineering, Peter carried out the solo traverse along the historic routes of the first climbers, relying solely on his own experience as a mountain guide. A confrontation on equal terms with the mountain, at speed but without haste, an intimate journey that Peter Moser wanted to make in order to get to the roots of mountaineering and his being a mountaineer, where exploration and amazement for Nature are still possible.

A child looks through a telescope she made out of a plastic bottle and experiences glimpses of our plastic-polluted future.

People say that in an indeterminate place of the Miño River, in the north of Galicia, a sardine-boy crosses the current at the end of the carnival festivities, leaving behind the people who celebrate his burial. It is unknown what causes his transformation, but it is said that the most watchful eyes can notice the moisture on his skin. Its existence is confirmed by the biggest sceptics. No one in the area has any doubts.

Brazil, 2022. In a remote area in São Paulo’s countryside, a rural family who lives beside a charcoal factory accepts a proposal to host a mysterious foreign guest. The home soon becomes a hideout as the so-called guest happens to be a highly wanted drug lord. The mother, her husband and child will have to learn how to share the same roof with this stranger, whilst keeping up appearances of an unchanged peasant routine.

Claé and Bruô, two warriors from rival kingdoms share the same mission: to save the magic forest from the threat of the deadly machines. To do so, they will have to patch up their differences and find the Perlimps, the magic and mysterious creatures who hide themselves in the midst of the forest.

In a north-eastern village in the interior of Portugal, a group of young men conquer time and distance to periodically bring the magical moment of the Winter Fiesta to their village. A celebration with ancestral roots preceding Christianity that remains alive in the soul of its people. Like in many villages of the interior, immigration casts a strong and persistent shadow; the search for a better life gifts us mixed and contradictory emotions. But the strength of friendship and the sense of community is stronger for all those that return home year after year, to reunite and breathe life into the village.

After the largest mining dam breaks in history, further dam collapses threaten millions in Brazil. A state counselor confronts the government's modus operandi, while dam refugees resist the mining companies' abuses in their threatened communities.

The directors accompany the poet António Poppe on a journey by foot from Casa de Gigante, in Sertã, to Vila Velha de Ródão. Once there, they all go to a meeting dedicated to poetry and fraternization among archaeologists who are celebrating fifty years since the start of excavations at the site. A film about time – the time of a walk, the time of human life at that place, geological time, cosmic time – and memory. The notion of memory is symbolised by the presence of the last elephants that inhabited Europa, the surviving evidence of which is a small slither of an elephant tusk.

In 2019, the Brazilian government coordinates the largest and riskiest expedition of the last decades into the Amazon rainforest to search for a group of isolated indigenous people in vulnerability and promote their first contact with non-indigenous. Bruno Pereira, who would be later murdered in the same region and turned into an international symbol in favor of the indigenous and the forest, leads the expedition.

I went to the land of the brave, as the Azorean popular songs say, on the stunning and isolated island of Terceira. The beauty of nature is interspersed with the harshness of survival, in a slow transit from the top of the island to the sea. This film travels through landscapes as if they were postcard photographs, accompanied by the experimental music inspired by Zeca Afonso.

A teacher descends from the mountains where he lives to swim 8 kilometres along the coast of the city of Rio de Janeiro. While he is swimming, he reflects on his condition of being alone for hours in the sea and the practice of sport, and ruminates on questions about the autonomy of the use of his body, rousing discourses to surmount challenges and the racial inequality in his country.

This short documentary explores the impacts of industrial agriculture and a changing climate on a rural community in southwest Portugal, where multinationals cultivate berries destined for supermarkets in the United Kingdom and Europe.

A study about women in the modern world, a regeneration of what it is “to be a woman”, of what it is to be the source of life, of what it is to be this magic element who gives rise to other beings and whose mood swings depending on the position of the moon.

They desire each other, but both are oblivious to their desire’s match. So, they ignore each other in the hope of becoming each other’s object of desire, profoundly ignorant of the tactical symmetry. Evermore distant, they let their desire burn away, sedated by the seduction failure frustration. One day, walking in opposite directions, their paths cross and, as they recognize each other’s presence, they merely exchange a cold nod.

On a hot summer afternoon, life unfolds, shadows grow and the wind blows. Two children play without noticing that time advances relentlessly, theirs, the one of the creatures, the one of the earth, and the one of the imagination. This elastic and layered time reveals itself in its traces, marks, and elements, allowing us to learn more about earth and its inhabitants. Five narrators accompany us in this excavation that is intended to be infinite, revealing time and its marks.

Ara had always believed she would disappear at twenty-eight years old. With that birthday approaching, she pursues the most basic feelings of existence in the water, the sun and the sublime. The state of trance is a wholesome place, alien-like, pervaded by invisible forces. When Ara realizes where her belief came from, she's propelled to catharsis: does she disappear?

Based on the concept of the travelling cinema, we walk through the mountains we know so well in search of the footsteps of the poet, meeting his words engraved into the landscape…

‘Caiçara’ is a short film about the conscientious consumption of products (fish) from the maritime ecosystem. This warning shot is relevant in abundant many places given that we are talking about a global emergency, but it was filmed in Rio de Janeiro, in one of the oldest traditional fishing communities in Brazil. The main protagonist, the young Caiçara man, ponders on this question and through his sharp eye and ancestral knowledge he brings this important reflection to the fore. The film is part of the INTERACTIONS anthology, an ‘Art for the World’ NGO project, which brings together the work of a dozen international cinema makers.

500 years ago, Cabo Verde was a paradise for seabirds. Today, the eight species that nest on the rocky slopes of these tropical islands face major challenges. From high mountains to remote and deserted islets, we follow Cape Verdean conservation teams on the ground to study and preserve the archipelago's seabird colonies. Commissioned by Cape Verdean environmental organisations Projecto Vitó and Biosfera.

In summer, the Portuguese countryside is ravaged by fires. Otilia struggles between her job as a pool cleaner and the need to take care of her mother alone. Stunned by this suffocating daily life, the flames awaken in her solitude, despair, and the desire to escape.

On a night like indistinguishable from the previous or the next, Carlos sees himself locked out of his bedroom. Beyond the door, a rat as taken over, without a courtesy call or warning. Carlos is forced to deal with a progressively eroded reality, unable to face what lies inside his bedroom.

"Catraias" is an essay-film that blurs the lines between fiction and nonfiction. It is a free reinterpretation of intimate records that are both fleeting and subtle. The film delves into the confrontation between these records, in an inner ethnography, which departs from memories and the story of two women who built their whole lives around the sea. Or rather, turned their lives into the sea.

The character in red is contained in a web of repeated and interlocking actions of her routine. However, the yearn to free herself from automatisms and frustrations grows stronger and louder. From the inside to the outside, from the mechanical to the spontaneous, one character becomes several. They explore the possibilities of doing without thinking.

The cycle of Springtime, Summer, Autumn and Winter is suddenly interruptedby the storm and psycadelia.

From a pet to a symbol of the fight for the preservation of Biodiversity, the Golden Lion Tamarin is one of the most emblematic species of Brazilian fauna. Native to the Atlantic Forest in Rio de Janeiro, the history of the tamarin is intertwined with the history of the forest and the history of Brazil.

Cool dawn, to the sound of a jump rope we see Sofia, a determined young woman exercising while talking to a herd of cows. She begins her morning run when a Bull Terrier dog is thrown from a jeep in front of her. The dog staggers, the young woman restless as the vehicle slips away. On top of the bed sleep three listed cats. A door is heard opening, Sofia greets the pets. The attentive cats watch the door between open as she goes to get the dog. Tension hangs in the air, instinct manifests itself, the dog attacks the cats, the young woman reacts. The kennel is crowded, Sofia protests. In the kitchen next to a steaming mug, a cat eats on the table. The protagonist drinks while watching the chained dog through the window. A cat approaches, heading toward the dog. The animals stare at each other. Sofia approaches the window, suddenly the animals are heard fighting, and she runs out. In the empty kitchen we hear a distant cry. Late afternoon, under an overpass, we see Sofia with a bloody towel in her hands. Devastated, she gets into the car and abandons the animal. She drives hesitantly, the dog runs after her. "Fade to black", the sound of braking and reversing can be heard.

In an apartment in a city under curfew, a day expands from early Spring to late Summer. A couple experiences a disconnect. While Alba searches for a feeling of optimism in the interior of the house, Xavier escapes out into the garden, where he dedicates himself to cultivating a vegetable garden. There, he befriends a child. These dreamlike encounters awaken hope in him, but also the biggest fears.

A lost visitor, with neither home nor country, arrives at a forgotten village in the faraway and baking mountains and discovers a blackened, authentic, people, who appeal to the soul of the land and the strength of the pine trees and still look to the skies and venerate the sun, discovering saints and miracles. One day he finds out that he had been born there and adopted this village, making it his own, singing to the roar of the rivers and streams, when they were still of pure granite and broken slate. He believes he too had to be rightfully born there, as if that very destination had spawned him. And he would have to tell that story one day.

Based on the concept of the travelling cinema, we walk through the mountains we know so well in search of the footsteps of the poet, meeting his words engraved into the landscape…

Music video for the “Ya Nam Quero Ser Pastora” (Anonymous - 17th century) track by Ningue Ningue, from the band’s 2022 album “No Paço e no Terreiro”. Past and present intertwine in the repeated life of a young shepherd who no longer wanted to tend to his animals.

The goal of reciclARTE is to make a contribution to solve social problems. By breathing life into pedagogical projects at school, it intends to raise social awareness for active citizenship. Its novel methodology is based on art and artistic creation, inviting youngsters to actively take part in the process of artistic creation and production, stimulating success at school through personal motivation and defending causes.

This is documentary that portrays stories or endurance and rebirth after the fires. A look inside five families who decided to relocate to the Beiras region, swapping their urban existence for a life in the country, close to nature, bringing up their children more freely to encourage independent thinking. This small community, after having almost been destroyed, showed determination and willpower to remain in the countryside and fight adversity, uniting to combat the difficulties.

"Vestígios" is a documentary short film that delves into the remote village of Sabugueiro, nestled in the heart of Serra da Estrela in Portugal. Amidst the stunning landscapes, the documentary captures the lives of the villagers who call Sabugueiro home. With its narrow streets, old houses and community spirit, the village maintains traditions and a secular way of life, despite the challenges posed by modernity and depopulation.