Peat, Palm, Haze

Co-presented by the Mexican Cultural Institute The burning of the peat forests throughout tropical Southeast Asia creates significant haze pollution that poses significant challenges to human health and the economies […]

Mar Incendiado

Since 1940, abalone has been the primary fish caught off Isla Natividad, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The inhabitants of this community make efforts to adapt to the threat of climate […]

Lumbardhi

This is the story of how a river that once used to epitomize purity and supply an entire town with clean water lost its glory due to modernization and development.

Lost World

As Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia’s mangrove forests, the threat of erasure looms over an ecosystem, a communal way of life, and one woman’s relationship to her beloved […]

Island of the Hungry Ghosts

Located off the coast of Indonesia, the Australian territory of Christmas Island is inhabited by migratory crabs traveling by the millions from the jungle toward the ocean, in a movement […]

Dulce

Finalist, Eric Moe Award for Best Short  On Colombia’s Pacific Coast, a mother teaches her daughter Dulce how to swim. It is an essential skill in this remote region, where […]

Black Line

A woman fishing in turbid waters, a suffering nature, the broken chant of the muezzin — they are all linked by a thin, black line.

Bayandalai – Lord of the Taiga

From inside his yurt deep within the heart of the sub-Arctic Taiga region, an elder of the Dukhas tribe muses about the significance of life and death in the largest […]

A Polar Year

Anders leaves his native Denmark for a teaching position in rural Greenland. As soon as he arrives, he finds himself at odds with the locals. Only through a clumsy and […]