Sandgrains

As a young boy, Zé left his Cape Verdean fishing village for a better life in Sweden. Several years later Zé returns to find his village has been transformed, and […]

Atomic Africa: Clean Energy’s Dirty Secrets

An investigation into the nuclear industry and its actions in Africa, the film examines Africa’s power needs and the consequences of using nuclear energy. Africa’s development is being held back […]

Food Savers

This follow-up to Valentin Thurn’s documentary, Taste the Waste, spotlights the people and companies throughout Europe who are working to salvage usable food. It is estimated that European households throw […]

Growing Cities

Examining the role of urban farming in America, this documentary considers how much power this burgeoning movement has to revitalize our cities and change the way we eat. Searching for […]

Bonobo Connection, The

Along with the chimpanzee, the bonobo ape is the closest human relative. This rare and intelligent species, which can only be found in one country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, […]

A2-B-C

Eighteen months after the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, the children there are suffering from severe nosebleeds and are developing skin rashes and thyroid cysts. Citing a lack of transparency in […]

Toxic Hot Seat

Chemical flame retardants are everywhere — in our furniture, our homes and our bodies. Yet flame retardants don’t seem to stop fires. They do, however, seem to make us sick. […]

Satoyama: Japan’s Secret Forest

In Japan, there are still many places where people quietly live with nature, making the most of the country’s unique natural environments. At the heart of such places are Satoyama, […]

Kangaroo Dundee

An extraordinary man named Brogla (an aboriginal word for stork) lives in a shack in the Australian Outback with a mob of orphaned kangaroos. He has dedicated his life to […]

City, The

Produced for the 1939 New York World’s Fair, The City is a call to rebuild America’s cities as planned communities. Featuring a beautiful music score by Aaron Copland, and based […]