When Lambs Become Lions

In a Kenyan town bordering wildlife conservation land, a small-time ivory dealer fights to stay on top while forces mobilize to destroy his trade. When he turns to his younger […]

Maj Doris

Follows the legendary 74-year-old Sami woman Maj Doris Rimpi. Twenty years ago she had another kind of life. She traveled all around the world and she experienced a lot. Nowadays […]

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. […]

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 […]

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; […]

Acid Forest

A wispy stretch of land from Russia to Lithuania becomes an unlikely tourist attraction: a dying forest of leafless trees overtaken by thousands of ancient black birds ruining the area […]

Antamiki

Hosted by the Environmental Investigation Agency   Screening will be followed by a discussion with film subject Diana Rios Rengifo and Director Steve Ellington.   Illegal logging is a threat to […]

Inventing Tomorrow

“It felt like this is the cavalry that’s come to save us from ourselves. These extraordinary, driven, eco-compassionate children are cancelling the apocalypse.” – Scott Beggs, The Nerdist   Inventing […]