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 […]

Ama-San

For over 2000 years the Ama-San dived in Japan. In Wagu, a fishing village in the Ise Peninsula, Matsumi, and Masumi dive every day not knowing what they’ll find. Underwater, […]

Los Ojos

The Eyes of the Journey is a poetic film that expresses the feelings of Andean culture toward Mother Earth, and the search for a deeper understanding of nature as a […]

Snails

Showing as part of Shorts Program 1. The French are outraged! The snail industry is growing and Polish breeders are exporting their snails not only to France or Italy, they […]