THE HERRING QUEEN
For as long as people in Eyemouth, a tiny Scottish fishing town, can remember, boys became men who catch fish and a young girl is crowned as a queen. Now, there’s no fish left for the men to catch, but year after year, a new 14 year old Herring Queen still takes her crown. Through […]
SUKKAILLUTIT UQARUK – SAY IT SLOWLY
My journey to learning Inuktitut at times has felt disorienting and anxiety producing and also fulfilling and soul nourishing. How can we adequately be protectors of the land if we do not speak its language? If we do not understand its seasonal shifts, its life cycles, its volatile nature? Our generation is doing the best […]
SOUVENIRS DU MONT SALOMÉ (Lost Frequencies)
Salomé, an acoustician, is called to a small village in the Vosges Mountains. Equipped with her recorder and microphones, she investigates mysterious sounds that have been troubling the residents for months. But Salomé is about to discover an invisible world, one that bears the traces of both the present and the past…
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 […]
REMIGIA′S LESSONS
“The land that you simply step on is the same land that you will seek your whole life in order to survive.” These are the words of wisdom Nanay Remigia’s father told her throughout her childhood. The Dumagat tribe, descendents of those who fled the Spanish colonization of the Philippines into the lowlands, has lived […]
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, […]
PETRA Y EL SOL (Petra and the Sun)
During the thaw, 71-year-old Petra discovers the intact body of a mountaineer who disappeared in 1900 and relives an impossible love story. A visual elegy about memory and suspended time that, through meticulous art direction, oscillates between nostalgia and the fantastical.
KOMARNICA: THE WILD THAT REMAINS
Komarnica follows a journey into one of Montenegro’s most spectacular and least explored river canyons. Beneath its limestone walls, scientists search caves, forests and riverbanks for species that may exist nowhere else on Earth, while local conservationists continue their fight to protect the canyon from hydropower development. The film brings together field biology, intimate human […]
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 […]