Cold Comfort: Arctic Communities

Shishmaref, Alaska, is a town of 600 people, located on a small barrier island off the northwest coast of Alaska. This island is going through an erosion process put on […]

Borneo’s Vanishing Tribes

A native community struggles to protect its ancestral homeland from an industry poised to destroy one of the Earth’s oldest and most biodiverse rainforests. Borneo’s Vanishing Tribes offers a glimpse […]

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; […]