NATURE & ENVIRONMENT
THE PEARL BUTTON
Dir: Patricio Guzmán
Chile, France and Spain, 2015
Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.
PASSION FOR PLANET
Dir: Werner Schuessler
Germany, 2015
A journey around the globe together with the world's best wildlife filmmakers. We experience their passion and commitment for the natural beauty of our planet.
SONG FROM THE FOREST
Dir: Michael Obert
Germany, 2013
Louis Sarno spends 25 years recording over 1,000 hours BaAka music. When he returns to the United States with his son, he realizes he is not part of the globalized world anymore.
MELLENU GARI
Dir: Astra Zoldnere
Latvia, 2016
Here, between misty fog and blueberries, a Roma family tells of the spirits in the surrounding forests.
EMPTYING THE SKIES
Dir: Douglas Kass and Roger Kass
USA, 2013
Based on an essay written by noted best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen for The New Yorker and widely republished around the world, ‘Emptying the Skies’ chronicles the rampant poaching of migratory songbirds in southern Europe.
IN KROPSDAMIS LEDEREEN
GELUKKIG
Dir: Joren Molter
The Netherlands, 2016
Lammert leads a tranquil life breeding pigeons. But when a wind farm is scheduled to go up in his village of Kropsdam it seems as if the whole world has turned against him.