Illustrating Stories with the Thaumatrope
Hosted by: Sérgio Pereira Target Audience: 3rd grade Students of the Seia School Group While playing and having fun, we create the future. What if we learnt sustainable habits while experimenting with a toy from the first infancy of moving images? In this workshop, children will draw and assemble thaumatropes, an optical toy that creates […]
AGROECOLOGIA EM MOVIMENTO (Agroecology in Motion)
An intimate look at the Portuguese movement that, from north to south, is revolutionizing the way agriculture is done and the relationship between producers and consumers, creating communities around food. A journey between urban and rural, extinction and regeneration, modern and traditional, center and margin. A film made and financed jointly by those who participate […]
YOU TOLD US TO TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER
A young boy leaves the village drone of his mother and discovers the decaying landscape has been sheltered from speaking of.
WE ARE ANIMALS
A man transforms into an animal and shares his emotions and fears. We Are Animals explores this metamorphosis as a metaphor for human contradictions, addressing relevant themes such as gender fluidity, power, domestic violence, and judgment, both in small towns and broader contexts.
TOUCHER DU BOIS ( Once Upon A Time In Offranville )
Once upon a time… there was the yew tree of Offranville, which had the power to calm anyone who hugged it. And so, over the generations, the village became a gathering place for anxious people from all over the world… Among them are Jérémy and Tristan, two brothers who work for the municipality’s parks and […]
TOUT VA BIEN
There is no climate crisis! They said so on TV! They wouldn’t lie to us, would they?
RISKY ROUTES
Every spring, thousands of amphibians leave their winter shelters and begin a dangerous journey towards their breeding ponds. For common toads, frogs and newts, this migration is essential for survival. But many of their ancient routes now cross busy roads. Risky Routes follows this fragile seasonal movement from the perspective of a common toad. Through […]
REPLANTING A GARDEN
Following a devastating coral bleaching event in Jamaica, fishers and coral gardeners work to restore damaged reefs and rebuild the ecosystem their community depends on. Through local knowledge, persistence, and conservation action, they search for surviving coral and begin the long process of recovery. Long synopsis In the wake of a devastating coral bleaching event, […]
LOVE BIRDS
In 1972, married biologists George Hunt and Molly Warner make an unprecedented discovery while studying seagulls on one of California’s Channel Islands.To their surprise, a great number of the nesting pairs they observe are both female. George and Molly’s research on “gay gulls” quickly triggers both outrage and jubilation in a nation grappling with the […]
LOST SONGS OF SUNDARI
Mumbai—once a cluster of villages connected by the sea—is being reshaped by modern bridges and land reclamation. This development comes at a cost: the erasure of the old world and its indigenous people, the Kolis, who lived in deep harmony with the sea. Their way of life—their fi shing traditions and ferry transport linking these […]