Opening Night film of the 2015 EFF Traffic gridlock around the world is frustrating people, wasting their time, polluting the air and contributing to climate change. Director Fredrik Gertten (BANANAS! […]

One of America’s most remarkable First Ladies, Lady Bird Johnson (1963-69), spearheaded a national effort to beautify our highways, neighborhoods and communities. The film follows Lady Bird from her humble […]

The groundbreaking architect, Lee Kuan Yew, narrates Singapore’s audacious attempt to recreate nature and clean the city’s drinking water, rivers and marina. A combination of images and video clips illustrates […]

Landfill Harmonic follows the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a children’s musical group from Paraguay that plays instruments made entirely out of trash. When their story goes viral, the orchestra is catapulted into the […]

The nature of play, risk and hazard are explored in this documentary, set in The Land, a Welsh “adventure” playground. At The Land children climb trees, light fires and use […]

Nearly 50 percent of food, worth billions of dollars, is discarded in North America each year. The film explores our nation’s systemic and ruinous obsession with expiration dates and perfect […]

Lethal, highly radioactive nuclear waste from decades of nuclear power use will remain toxic for centuries. Locating a final repository for the most dangerous waste man has ever produced is […]

  Sci-artist Mara Haseltine finds an unsettling presence in samples of plankton she collects during a Tara Oceans exhibition. This presence is borne from land to sea, and is a […]

The most successful farm protection effort in the country is just 20 miles from the White House. This film profiles the challenges of growing food and cities in harmony. Directed […]

To the pioneering and preeminent landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, a park was both art and an urban necessity. Olmsted’s efforts to preserve nature created an environmental ethic decades before […]