Ecology
16 films
Abel
dir. Dekel Berenson, Paul Wesley
fab2024
Life follows its own rhythm in boundless mountains, but a broken heart hurts as much there as in any other corner of the world. Abel, who is 17, does not expect his girlfriend to tell him that they should stop talking to each other. He will receive support from the least expected direction.
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Aha
dir. Paulina Jaklik
anim2024
A young man is walking around a Garden of Eden, full of lush vegetation and classical sculptures. Suddenly, he falls into a dark hole. This is an ‘aha’ - a hidden boundary of the garden, which is usually a moat or a ditch marking the end of the property without blocking the view, so that the garden may blend with its surroundings.
Read moreBerchidda Live - A Journey Into Time in Jazz Archive (Berchidda Live – Un Viaggio Nell'Archivio Time In Jazz)
dir. Gianfranco Cabiddu, Michele Mellara, Alessandro Rossi
dok2023
Time in Jazz festival is inherently linked to the place where it has been organized since 1988, i.e. the town of Berchidda in Sardinia. In beautiful natural surroundings one may absorb a variety of music traditions and the film is a portrayal of this atmospheric event and the people who create it.
Read moreChords (Cuerdas)
dir. Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
fab2022
Rita has an important meeting with her fellow singers: the women’s choir to which she belongs is in danger of disbanding because they have lost the municipal subsidy with which they used to rent their rehearsal space.
Read moreDon Benjamín
dir. Ivan Zahínos
dok2024
An unpretentious and poetic journey through a magical, endangered region of the Amazon rainforest in Bolivia. People living in the jungle are trying to restore the original state of the areas stripped bare of any trees.
Read moreAwards:Silver Dragon
Forest (Las)
dir. Lidia Duda
dok2024
Asia and Marek live with their three children in the Bialowieza Forest, right on the border with Belarus. The cameras installed in the forest have so far served them to observe the animals. But the night-time recordings show that people have appeared in the forest. The whole family is committed to helping the refugees, even though they have no support from the state.
Read moreGeographies of Solitude
dir. Jacquelyn Mills
dok2022
A portrayal of Zoe Lucas is devoted to the naturalist who spent over 40 years studying Canada’s Sable Island in the Atlantic. Analysing of the island’s population of wild horses, she created a chronicle of the cyclical interlacing of the animate with the inanimate. In this film overcoming the barrier of sight and hearing, the voice is given to nature.
Read moreKawauso
dir. Akihito Izuhara
anim2023
A young girl and a river otter in an empty town do not develop into a story of great friendship between a human being and an animal. The protagonists are trying to establish some contact but they are total strangers. The starting point for this contemplative animation is the extinction of the river otter in Japan.
Read moreAwards:Golden Dragon
Koka
dir. Aliaksandr Tsymbaliuk
dok2024
On the coast of the Bering Sea, where time has stopped, a father and son make a living by fishing. They live in austere, almost ascetic conditions, where the rhythm of life is determined by successive fishing trips.
Read moreAwards:Special Award
Moving Mountains
dir. Jessica Poon
anim2024
The characters of this animation are little creatures looking like people without faces, clothes or emotions. On the one hand, they seem to be roaming without an aim, while on the other, they try to move ‘mountains’ with all their might. This surreal story is a metaphor of the lifestyle of modern nomads constantly chasing novelty and, at the same time, entangled in old habits.
Read moreOn the 8th Day (Au 8ème Jour)
dir. Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois
anim2023
Seven days were needed to create the world, but one day was enough to destroy everything. The authors of this animated film invite the viewers to a beautiful land, woven of colourful yarn, full of animals and plants. Imperceptibly, darkness and gloom creep into this ideal world, gradually engulfing the fauna and flora.
Read moreAwards:Special Mention
Silent Panorama (Silent panorama)
dir. Nicolas Piret
anim2024
Splashing of a stream, rustling of leaves, chirping of birds. Soon, the sounds of nature turn into the sounds of a tree being felled, a factory or a train. With consecutive sounds, more fragments of a picture are being revealed on a piece of paper. An interesting formal experiment, which makes us more aware of how man drowns out the peaceful life of nature.
Read moreThe Peter Plan (Plan Petera)
dir. Grzegorz Pacek
dok2024
Wracked with pain, a man flees our hyper-connected world to end his electro suffering.
Read moreThe Shadow of Dawn (Eha Vari)
dir. Olga Stalev
anim2024
A young girl rejects the advances of a lumberjack she met in the forest. Soon, she encounters Beast with a crow’s head and Shadow sets off to fight for her life. This magic story about love, rejection and hurt feelings is a puppet animation with impressive stage design and costume details.
Read moreThree Birds (Tri ticice)
dir. Zarja Menart
anim2024
A girl visits a bird-woman to ask her how to deal with the problems bothering her. The strange older lady sends her on a journey inside herself, in which she is accompanied by three birds. Walking through a dark forest and murky reeds, entering a mysterious lake, the character experiences pain, fright and fear.
Read moreWhere Russia Ends (Tam, de zakinchuyetʹsya Rosiya)
dir. Oleksiy Radynski
dok2024
In 2022, during Russia’s on-going invasion of Ukraine, unknown film footage was discovered in Kiev. It is a testimony to the erased history of numerous imperialistic wars waged by Russia against its later colonies.
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