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A Climate Forests Campaign Event Sponsored by REI Co-Op, Patagonia, and DCEFF Join us for a screening of the new film Crown Jewels to learn more about the value of mature and old-growth forests, and the fight to protect them. The event will feature a panel discussion with Q&A with the director, film crew, and […]
A Co-presentation of AFI's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF Adrift after the loss of her brother, 12-year-old Carla is dragged to the Galápagos Islands to accompany her biologist father on a weeklong conservation conference. Reinventing herself as "Island," she's left to explore the area on her own. She quickly strikes up friendships with the […]
A Co-presentation of AFI's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF Nicaragua is one of the top five exporters of beef to the United States, whose profits in the industry have grown by over 400 percent in the last decade — but at great cost to the Rama Indigenous people and the Kriol Afro-descendent population, whose […]
A Co-presentation of AFI's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF Adrift after the loss of her brother, 12-year-old Carla is dragged to the Galápagos Islands to accompany her biologist father on a weeklong conservation conference. Reinventing herself as "Island," she's left to explore the area on her own. She quickly strikes up friendships with the […]
Co-presented by AFI's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF A ruminative road trip through the forests of the Chaco region in Paraguay, THE LAST sees director Sebastián Peña Escobar join his longtime friends Jota and Ulf, an ornithologist and entomologist, respectively, as they head toward one of the few remaining virgin forests spurred by rumors […]
Co-presented by AFI's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF A ruminative road trip through the forests of the Chaco region in Paraguay, THE LAST sees director Sebastián Peña Escobar join his longtime friends Jota and Ulf, an ornithologist and entomologist, respectively, as they head toward one of the few remaining virgin forests spurred by rumors […]
A Co-presentation of AFI's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF Nicaragua is one of the top five exporters of beef to the United States, whose profits in the industry have grown by over 400 percent in the last decade — but at great cost to the Rama Indigenous people and the Kriol Afro-descendent population, whose […]
Co-Presented with Hip Hop Caucus Screening includes pre-recorded conversations with the filmmakers and Rev. Lennox Yearwood. Both moderated by Mustafa Santiago Ali. Norfolk, Virginia is sinking. The already insufficient sea wall ends where a public housing project, St. Paul’s, begins. St. Paul’s housing projects' residents are Black people. Norfolk is home to the world’s largest […]
A Co-presentation of AFI Silver's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF In this powerfully self-reflexive documentary, Swiss-Panamanian filmmaker Andrés Peyrot embeds himself alongside the Indigenous Kuna people in Panama's Guna Yala islands to document their efforts to recover the lost film GOD IS A WOMAN. Made in 1975 while observing the Kuna's matrilocal society by […]
A Co-presentation of AFI Silver's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF In this powerfully self-reflexive documentary, Swiss-Panamanian filmmaker Andrés Peyrot embeds himself alongside the Indigenous Kuna people in Panama's Guna Yala islands to document their efforts to recover the lost film GOD IS A WOMAN. Made in 1975 while observing the Kuna's matrilocal society by […]
Co-presented by AFI's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF Deep within the Amazon, the Yanomami people are facing an existential threat. Since a highway tore through their territory in the early 1970s, miners have encroached on their land, bringing violence and disease. Filmmakers Eryk Rocha (CINEMA NOVO) and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha go beyond ethnography, […]
A Co-presentation of AFI's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF Nicaragua is one of the top five exporters of beef to the United States, whose profits in the industry have grown by over 400 percent in the last decade — but at great cost to the Rama Indigenous people and the Kriol Afro-descendent population, whose […]