Aquatic Cathartic

A short documentary investigating the entangled roles of art and science in making the world a better place.    

A Modern Shepherdess

A few years ago, Stéphanie left her Parisian life for the vast salt meadows of the Cherbourg Peninsula. The former graphic designer discovered a deep connection with this land by […]

Genesis 2.0

Co-presented by the Embassy of Switzerland and the Freer Gallery of Art   On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters search for tusks of extinct mammoths. […]

Grit

Presented by the Reva & David Logan Foundation In 2006, international drilling company Lapindo carelessly unleashed an unstoppable toxic mudflow into East Java, burying dozens of nearby villages and displacing […]

Ghost Fleet

This film follows a small group of activists who risk their lives on remote Indonesian islands to find justice and freedom for the enslaved fishermen who feed the world’s insatiable […]

Free Solo

From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi (Meru) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes a stunning, intimate, and unflinching portrait of Alex Honnold. The free soloist climber prepares […]

Crannog

Alexis has a life-threatening disease. She spends her time in the wooded expanse of northern Scotland, where she takes care of dozens of others who are also sick, wounded, or […]

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

The filmmakers take us on a worldwide tour encompassing concrete seawalls in China, which now cover 60 percent of the mainland coast; the biggest terrestrial machines ever built in Germany; […]

COOKED: Survival by Zip Code

This searing yet quirky film investigates the “natural” disasters we’re willing to see and prepare for and the “unnatural” ones we’re not. Adapted from Eric Klinenberg’s groundbreaking book Heat Wave: […]

Confluence

Presented by the Reva and David Logan Foundation The Colorado River has carved a deep imprint both on the physical landscape and on the lives of he people who rely […]