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2258 - A Story about Earth's Regeneration

Director: Nikos Pantermarakis Country: Greece

On Crete's Lassithi Plateau, the land is beginning to fail. As soils thin and yields falter, a group of farmers turns to regenerative agriculture — racing against time to revive the ground beneath their feet while scientists lay bare what soil degradation means for the future of food worldwide. Moving between the intimate, weathered reality of working the land and the larger scientific stakes, the film frames a single Greek plateau as a microcosm of a global crisis quietly unfolding beneath us. Its tone is urgent but not despairing: in the farmers' experiments and determination, it finds a model of hope and practical renewal. Grounded and forward-looking, it argues that the health of the soil is inseparable from our own — a compelling case that regeneration begins underground, with the living earth we so often take for granted.

Duration: 70 Minutes

Chinamperos: maintaining ancestral farming practices

Director: Rodrigo Jardón Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_Germany, Mexico

In the canals of Xochimilco, in the south of Mexico City, survive the last remnants of a vast farming system built on floating beds known as chinampas — a technique that once helped sustain the Aztec empire. Listening to the farmers who still tend them, the film reveals how this ancient method has weathered water scarcity, natural disasters and a changing climate, passed faithfully from one generation to the next. Across three generations of growers, it shows agriculture not as mere production but as living heritage, where cultural memory becomes a tool of environmental survival. Produced for the United Nations University, the documentary makes a clear, resonant case that protecting traditional knowledge is inseparable from protecting the land itself — and that the wisdom to farm sustainably may already lie in practices our ancestors perfected centuries ago.

Duration: 10 Minutes

LIFE MareNatura: protecting marine life in a changing world

Director: Roberto Lo Monaco Country: Greece

In the heart of the Mediterranean, the LIFE MareNatura project brings together experts from Greece and Italy in a shared mission to protect marine biodiversity. Through a large-scale conservation effort, the initiative focuses on nine target species and works to identify new areas worth safeguarding, so the richness of the sea endures for future generations. The film follows this cross-border collaboration as scientists, conservationists and institutions pool their knowledge against the mounting pressures facing marine life in a changing climate. Clear and purposeful, it shows conservation not as an abstract ideal but as concrete, coordinated action — surveys, protected zones and patient fieldwork beneath the waves. A hopeful portrait of international cooperation in defence of the Mediterranean's fragile underwater world, and of the species whose survival depends on what we choose to protect today.

Duration: 47 Minutes

Paani Suar - Dugong

Director: Akanksha Sood Singh Country: India

In the crystalline depths surrounding the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, an ancient silhouette drifts through the seagrass: the dugong. A relic of a prehistoric lineage, this elusive marine mammal—once decimated by colonial-era hunting—now faces a precarious future shaped by climatic shifts and human encroachment. As the last of its kind in these waters, it has become a ghost in the machine of its own ecosystem.

Dr. Swapnali Gole arrives on these volcanic shores not just as a researcher, but as a bridge between science and the soul of the islands. Over eight years of patient immersion, she fosters a robust citizen science network, empowering local communities to become guardians of their own environment. Yet, as the monitoring infrastructure thrives, a haunting silence persists beneath the waves. This evocative documentary captures a scientist’s crisis of faith, questioning whether years of grassroots conservation can truly save a species that remains heartbreakingly invisible.

Duration: 36 Minutes

TERRA -green planet-

Director: Nobuaki Kita Country: Japan

Filmed amidst the stillness of a global pandemic, this sincere documentary follows director Nobuaki Kita, his wife, and their one-year-old son, Terra, on an expansive journey across Japan and the American West Coast. Spanning over 30 locations, the film serves as a polished anthology of ecological wisdom, capturing the voices of farmers, educators, and activists dedicated to regenerative living. Through the lenses of permaculture, the narrative highlights those who find profound joy and purpose in the act of giving back to the Earth.

The film’s environmental credentials are impeccable, offering a crystal-clear vision of soil regeneration, forest restoration, and sustainable urban systems. Kita’s background as a professional cinematographer is evident in the beautiful aerial sequences of satoyama landscapes and lush forest gardens. This contemplative work functions as a practical guide to climate action, providing a hopeful, educational roadmap for anyone seeking to harmonize their daily life with the natural world through the transformative power of permaculture.

Duration: 102 Minutes

Barren lands - Terre aride

Director: Hervé Barmasse Country: Italy

In North Horr, in the arid northwest of Kenya, mountaineer and storyteller Hervé Barmasse travels across a land where climate crisis and water scarcity are reshaping every balance of life. His journey portrays the pastoral communities who live here, their vital bond with their animals, and an environment growing more fragile by the day — one in which human health and survival are tested with every passing season. Rather than observe from a distance, the film becomes an act of giving back to these dry lands and the people who inhabit them, following the daily work of Amref Health Africa to bring care and hope. Honest and unembellished, it offers a clear-eyed yet compassionate view of resilience at the climate frontier — a portrait of dignity in one of the harshest landscapes on Earth.

Duration: 20 Minutes

De-extinction – Species Protection 2.0?

Director: Herbert Ostwald Country: Germany

Extinct species never return — until now. We are living through the greatest wave of extinction since the dinosaurs, with up to 150 species vanishing every day, a crisis that may prove even more decisive for humanity's future than climate change. Yet what was once science fiction is no longer unthinkable. This rigorously researched science documentary accompanies ambitious scientists across the globe as they attempt to revive vanished animals — and rescue those on the brink — using cutting-edge genetic engineering. Professionally crafted and ethically balanced, it probes the harder questions beneath the headlines: what drives the human ambition to resurrect the dead? What does it truly mean to bring a species back? And should we attempt it at all? Both wondrous and sobering, the film weighs the promise of de-extinction against the responsibility it demands.

Duration: 52 Minutes

Echoes of Menchul

Director: Sophia Bihailo Country: Ukraine

In the high altitudes of the Ukrainian Carpathians, German ecologist Michel Jacobi has found a purpose that transcends modern convenience. Having traded the city of Kiel for the rugged peaks of Menchul, Jacobi dedicates his life to the nearly extinct endemic water buffalo and the preservation of ancient livestock breeds. This sincere documentary explores his mission to safeguard biodiversity while living alongside Hutsul and Boyko communities, honoring a cultural heritage where the human and natural worlds are inextricably linked.

Through Jacobi’s articulate philosophy, the film examines the urgent co-evolution of humans and animals, from traditional horse culture to the ecological importance of grazing practices. While the narrative is grounded in Jacobi's spiritual connection to the mountain, the cinematography captures moments of striking artistry, including silhouettes of horses against a fading sunset. The result is a compelling environmental portrait—a reminder that we are not merely observers of nature, but an essential part of its timeless, delicate balance.

Duration: 7 Minutes

Slow Death

Director: İlkay Nişancı Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_Türkiye

Turkey's Elbistan Plain is a land of cruel contradiction: the country's most fertile farmland sits atop its largest lignite deposit. With two thermal power plants already crippling the ecosystem and six more planned, a promised land of progress is being turned into a toxic frontier — Turkey ranks eighth in the world for sulphur-oxide pollution, and Elbistan fifth within the country. Unfolding as a searing environmental-justice investigation, the film methodically traces how a shared dream of development curdles into catastrophe shared by no one, reading at times like a murder mystery whose culprit is plainly known. Yet it refuses despair: even in the most poisoned moments, it finds life and hope ready to sprout again with a little care. Rigorous, patient and quietly furious, it stands as a forensic indictment of industrial betrayal and a tribute to the communities who endure it.

Duration: 85 Minutes

Forest Fires

Director: Nadezhda Bondarenko Country: Montenegro

A dry forest. A single spark. A landscape transformed by fire. In just sixty seconds, this concentrated environmental film captures the terrifying speed at which an entire ecosystem can be undone. It opens in the stillness of a parched woodland, balanced on a knife-edge, before a stray spark ignites the undergrowth and the screen fills with devastation. Stripping away all narrative excess, the film fixes on the raw mechanics of destruction — a visceral reminder of how swiftly human carelessness can dismantle the natural world. By distilling a global crisis into a single unflinching minute, it underlines the shared responsibility we carry as stewards of the forests. Stark, rapid and haunting, it leaves viewers confronting the permanent consequences of a momentary lapse — a one-minute call to action before the next spark falls.

Duration: 1 Minutes

DELTA

Director: Vivian Papageorgiou Country: Greece

At the mouth of the Pinios River, where fresh water meets the sea beneath the mythic shadow of Mount Olympus, a small community of coastal fishermen labours to keep an ancient way of life afloat. Across the turning of the seasons, the film follows their daily rhythms — the mending of nets, the long waits, the small victories wrested from an unpredictable environment. Its strength lies in its people: weathered, resilient and often surprisingly funny, they carry their hardships with humour and grace. Water is ever-present here, both provider and adversary, shaping every gesture and decision. Rather than lament, the documentary observes with patience and warmth, letting the landscape and its inhabitants speak for themselves. The result is an intimate portrait of resilience — a quiet meditation on the fragile bond between a community and the living delta that sustains it.

Duration: 76 Minutes

An Irish Atlantic Rainforest

Director: Gary Lennon Country: Ireland

In 2009, Dublin sculptor Eoghan Daltun walked away from city life for a derelict 73-acre farm on the Beara Peninsula — land left ecologically broken, overgrazed and choked with invasive species. His response was radically simple: step back, and let nature heal itself. This immersive documentary chronicles the resulting resurrection, as native woodlands surge from barren ground, rare species return and biodiversity erupts across the recovering landscape. More than a personal story, it becomes a vivid demonstration of rewilding's quiet power, and a hopeful counterpoint to ecological despair. Against the backdrop of climate crisis and accelerating biodiversity loss, the film poses urgent questions about humanity's place in nature — and whether sometimes the most powerful act of restoration is to let go and let the wild return.

Duration: 91 Minutes

A Paradise Lost

Director: Laurie Harue Sumiye Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_United States

An enchanting yet harrowing tale of the yellow Palila finch and the landmark case Palila v. Hawaii, in which nature itself took humanity to court to stave off extinction. The story unfolds through the eyes of Anuenue, an animated Palila who stood as the named client in the 1979 trials, explaining how the Endangered Species Act was leveraged to protect the mamane forests where the birds compete with introduced sheep and goats. They won in court — yet remain in peril: by 2024, only 300 Palila survive. Today, a Native Hawaiian conservationist fights to save them amid escalating threats of climate change, wildfire, invasive predators, disease and government neglect. Inventive and moving, the film blends animation, legal history and frontline conservation into a singular plea — a courtroom drama for a vanishing bird, and for the law's power to defend the voiceless.

Duration: 87 Minutes

In this meditative ten-minute masterpiece, the vast Greenlandic ice sheet serves as a haunting metaphor for cultural extinction. For millennia, these frozen expanses have molded the land and the sacred traditions of the Inuit people, yet today, climate change threatens to dissolve that ancient bond forever. Told through an authoritative Indigenous perspective, the narrative unfolds as a poignant letter from an elder to a child, blending scientific accuracy with the lyrical resonance of Greenlandic mythology. Director Inuk Jørgensen eschews traditional documentary tropes, instead utilizing a circular storytelling structure that makes the environmental crisis feel intimate and urgent. Through stunning glacial textures and desaturated abstractions, the film captures a world in transition, where the melting ice mirrors the irreversible erasure of ancestral memory. It is a rare, elegiac achievement that honors oral tradition while confronting a devastating reality: the loss of nature is inextricably tied to the loss of self. This is a profoundly personal lament for a journey ending in...

Duration: 10 Minutes

Forced Renewables

Director: Francisco Javier Fernández Bordonada Country: Spain

In Lopera, a small town in Jaén, the promise of a green transition curdles into a nightmare. Centuries-old olive groves — the inheritance of generations of farmers — are being uprooted to clear space for vast photovoltaic plants, in a lopsided battle between powerful corporations and a community fighting to keep its land. Through first-hand testimonies, striking imagery and a clear-eyed analysis of the current energy model, the film exposes the dark side of renewable energy: how progress, when poorly planned and severed from rural life, can become an ecological, social and economic disaster. Far from rejecting clean energy, it insists on asking who pays for it and how it is imposed. A timely, troubling portrait of a community resisting the destruction of its landscape in the name of a future it was never consulted about.

Duration: 68 Minutes

Risky Routes

Director: Jonas Steiner Country: Switzerland

Each spring, thousands of toads set out on one of nature's most perilous pilgrimages — the journey back to the very waters where they were born, driven by the ancient urge to reproduce. Their route is an obstacle course of mortal dangers: busy roads slick with traffic, steep barriers, predators and the countless hazards of a landscape reshaped by human hands. What should be a simple migration becomes a desperate fight for survival, each crossing a gamble against the odds. Following these small, determined travellers at their own level, the film turns an overlooked seasonal ritual into a tense, intimate drama. It quietly reveals how human infrastructure fragments the natural world and turns instinct into peril, while celebrating the astonishing persistence of creatures we rarely stop to notice — a vivid reminder that even the humblest migration is an epic struggle for life.

Duration: 6 Minutes

Flotacija

Director: Eluned Zoe Aiano, Alesandra Tatić Country: Serbia

In the Eastern Serbian mining town of Majdanpek, living conditions have grown so harsh that even the dragons are said to be leaving. This distinctive, award-winning documentary follows the Marković family, whose fate is bound to a place split between magic and industry. Dragan, a lifelong miner, is the last in a line of dragon hunters; his sister Desa, widow of a union leader, carries on his fight against the mortgage debt-slavery crushing fellow mining families. Blending magical realism with labour documentary, the film lets folklore and hard economic reality coexist, finding wonder amid toxic air and exhaustion. Tender, strange and quietly radical, it honours a family determined to keep their traditions — and their future generations — alive, even as heavy industry swallows the town around them. A rare, haunting portrait of people refusing to let the magic die.

Duration: 77 Minutes

Photons in Love

Director: Alexia Tsouni Country: Greece

Two children spend their summer holidays in their grandparents' villages, beside two Greek lakes with opposite histories. Lake Mornos was created by a dam in 1979 and is now re-emerging as drought lowers its waters; Lake Karla was drained in 1962, then catastrophically reflooded in 2023. When the children's matching balls fall into the lakes and are saved, a delicate conceit takes hold: two photons bound across distance by a quantum thread. Through this elegant parallel structure, the film maps how human intervention and a changing climate reshape water and the land around it, linking two disparate places into a single reflection. Gentle and inventive, it filters environmental upheaval through the wonder of childhood, suggesting that even far-apart fates may be quietly, invisibly connected.

Duration: 15 Minutes

The African savannah is a symphony, and the elephant its most charismatic instrument. While countless films celebrate the lives of these giants, this documentary turns to a stranger, more profound subject: the hidden power of their death. When a great body falls, it sets off an intricate cascade of consequences — feeding microscopic soil microbes, reshaping landscapes, and rippling outward through chains of life in ways science is only beginning to grasp. From the smallest organisms to the very evolution of the human brain, the film reveals how the end of one giant orchestrates the survival of an entire ecosystem. Visually rich and intellectually bold, it reframes decay not as loss but as renewal, a vital engine of life. A surprising, illuminating look at the afterlife of giants and the deep interconnection of all living things.

Duration: 19 Minutes

Tales from the Kopanecke Meadows

Director: Vladimír Šifra Country: Slovakia

This documentary traces the singular story of the Kopanec Meadows in Slovak Paradise — a landscape shaped by the combined work of nature and humankind. For centuries, traditional hand mowing has sustained them, giving rise to an exceptionally rich ecosystem of record-breaking biodiversity. Over the course of a single year, the film moves through this remarkable terrain: from the spring awakening of snowdrops, through the teeming life of summer, into misty autumn and the hush of winter. Along the way it reveals the fascinating stories of local species and the intricate relationships between them that hold the delicate balance of meadow life in place. Beautifully observed and deeply attentive, it celebrates a rare harmony between human tradition and the natural world — a reminder that some of nature's richest habitats are cultivated by care, not left untouched.

Duration: 55 Minutes

Itacoatiaras

Director: Sérgio Andrade, Patricia Goùvea Country: Brazil

The word comes from the indigenous Tupi — i'tá kwati'ara, "painted stone" — marking places once held sacred, etched by ancient hands. Two locations thousands of kilometres apart in Brazil, one on Rio de Janeiro's surf-washed coast and one deep in the Amazon, share this single name and a parallel fate: the slow erasure of their indigenous past. This conceptually ambitious, sensory investigation drifts between the two, gathering forgotten stories and listening for echoes of identity buried beneath environmental and cultural forces. Directors Sérgio Andrade and Patricia Gouvêa weave image, memory and landscape into a meditative essay on what is lost when a people and their ecosystems are written out of the record. Polished and original, it offers audiences the chance to recover a fragment of a vanishing heritage — and to ask what such erasure costs us all.

Duration: 74 Minutes

Cultivate the Land, the Body, and the Mind

Director: A.I. Mosler Country: Greece

In the mountains of Arcadia, in the central Peloponnese, an eco-cultural initiative takes root in a town shifting from coal to care. Conceived as far more than shelter, it grows into a living space for ecological learning, shared responsibility and regenerative practice. Through workshops, educational programmes and international exchanges, it invites participants into hands-on learning and collective transformation, nurturing practical skills alongside a deeper culture of care. The film follows this evolving community as it takes shape, posing one simple but urgent question: if we take from nature, do we not also carry the duty to restore? Patient and observational, it reflects on what it means to rebuild a place and a way of life from the ground up — a quietly hopeful study of regeneration as a shared practice, where land, body and mind are tended together.

Duration: 14 Minutes

A call to re-examine who we are and what we value, this documentary asks us to rethink our relationship with a world we are steadily depleting. We cannot keep extracting and exploiting ecosystems at record rates, it argues, while squandering the precious resources on which all life depends. In a stunning visual exploration, the film travels across Asia — India, Singapore, South Korea and Vietnam — moving from sprawling landfills to sweeping cinematic aerials, from archival footage to intimate macro portraits. Along the way, industry experts, policymakers and scientists chart a path toward cleaner communities, healthier habitats and thriving, circular economies. Equal parts indictment and inspiration, it aims to mobilise action across business, government and everyday life, insisting that the waste crisis is also an opportunity — a chance to remake our cities and landscapes into something regenerative and whole.

Duration: 62 Minutes

Britain's native white-clawed crayfish are in serious trouble. Their rivers have been overrun by larger, meaner American signal crayfish carrying a deadly plague — and beneath the surface, things are spiralling out of control. The film tells this surprisingly bleak ecological story through the lens of a gloriously ridiculous faux-documentary, complete with crustacean gangsters, pensioner crayfish, plague doctors and melodramatic talking-head interviews. Combining genuine conservation science with costumes, puppetry and bone-dry humour, it smuggles a serious message inside an irresistible comic conceit. Beneath the laughs lies a real and urgent question: can Britain's most overlooked freshwater residents survive their own end times? Playful, inventive and quietly heartbreaking, it proves that environmental storytelling can be both hilarious and deadly serious — and that even an invertebrate underdog deserves its day on screen.

Duration: 10 Minutes

LEGACY

Director: Amirmehdi Tavakolian Country: Islamic Republic of Iran

A chilling descent into the psyche of absolute power, this haunting documentary captures a dictator at the precipice of global catastrophe. As he contemplates a definitive nuclear strike, the rigid structures of authority begin to fracture, replaced by the persistent, ghostly memories of his daughter’s childhood joy. This psychological odyssey dissolves the boundaries between political duty and human conscience, propelling the protagonist through a surreal labyrinth of claustrophobic elevators and infinite corridors.

The film masterfully visualizes the internal collapse of a tyrant, translating the abstract threat of war into a visceral nightmare of fire and mass suffering. By juxtaposing the cold mechanics of violence with the devastating reality of a vast, silent cemetery, the narrative demands a confrontation with the human cost of ambition. It is a rigorous, visionary exploration of the echoes left behind by innocent lives, forcing a final, harrowing reckoning with the weight of a legacy forged in desolation.

Duration: 6 Minutes

Stay in Kajang

Director: Muhammad Aghna Mannan, Muhammad Halim Harfiandri Country: Indonesia

At the southern edge of Sulawesi, Indonesia, the Kajang people strive to hold their ground against the relentless currents of modernisation. In the village they call Tana Toa, they guard an identity that has endured for centuries, living by the principles of Pasang ri Kajang — a code of simplicity, restraint and harmony with the natural world that stands as a quiet fortress for their culture. Yet the turning of time is inevitable: the village, its architecture and even the rhythms of daily life slowly shift. The film observes this delicate negotiation with patience and respect, posing a question many indigenous communities face — how to move with the modern age while holding fast to the noble values handed down by their ancestors. A thoughtful, dignified portrait of tradition and resilience at the edge of a changing world.

Duration: 23 Minutes

Honeymoon

Director: Mattia Parlati Country: Italy

In a world where human excess has finally eclipsed its creator, pollution acts as a rising tide, drowning the landscape in a literal sea of refuse. This stop-motion allegory presents a planet rendered uninhabitable, where the streets and countryside are engulfed by garbage, forcing humanity into isolated exile. Amidst this environmental catastrophe, two young lovers remain separated by an unbridgeable distance, their only connection a symbolic red thread of hope. Born from the collective memory of global isolation, the film utilizes a charming, tactile claymation aesthetic to explore climate anxiety as a deeply lived experience.

Through the use of handmade cardboard cityscapes and expressive figures, the narrative transforms a debris-choked wasteland into a surreal backdrop for enduring human connection. As the protagonists navigate their earthbound despair, their journey toward a lunar reunion serves as a heartfelt testament to sincerity in the face of collapse. This intimate short captures the emotional resonance of a world buried in its own making.

Duration: 4 Minutes

Little, Big, and Far

Director: Jem Cohen Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_Austria, United States

Karl, a 70-year-old Austrian astronomer and museum consultant, finds himself at a crossroads: his work is precarious, his physicist wife growing distant, and the environmental crises reshaping his field impossible to ignore. Seeking the vanishing dark skies he has spent his life studying, he journeys to a Greek island. Around him orbit other lives — his colleague Sarah, drawn to "citizen science" and to a young Ecuadorian astronomer; reflections on the Rosetta mission that landed a probe on a distant comet; his wife's pilgrimage to witness a total eclipse. From a major filmmaker, this is a deliberately slow, essayistic work that braids cosmic history with intimate human uncertainty. Luminous and contemplative, it gazes outward at the universe to look more closely at our fragile place within it — an elegy for the disappearing night sky and the wonder it sustains.

Duration: 122 Minutes

NAUSEA (2024)

Director: Eirini Chatzi Country: Greece

Shot entirely on an iPhone, Nausea is a summer chronicle of the physical symptoms of the Anthropocene era.

Duration: 4 Minutes

Feeling the Apocalypse

Director: Chen Sing Yap Country: Canada

How does a mental health professional navigate a crisis that has no clinical cure? In this profound and deeply personal documentary, a psychotherapist grapples with the paralyzing weight of climate anxiety. Rather than turning away from the existential dread of ecological collapse, the film leans directly into the discomfort, transforming a global catastrophe into an intimate internal dialogue. It is a raw exploration of what it means to seek equilibrium while living in a dying world.

The narrative eschews typical environmental alarmism in favor of a quiet, psychological autopsy of our current era. By documenting the struggle to reconcile professional resilience with personal despair, the film offers a meditative and urgent reflection on the human condition. It asks a vital question for the modern age: how do we find the will to persist when the horizon feels increasingly final? This is an essential, sobering look at the emotional toll of our changing planet.

Duration: 7 Minutes

The Treasure

Director: Thierry Albert Country: France

Shot on 16mm film against the rugged beauty of Cape Verde, this dialogue-free short captures a young boy’s solo voyage toward a pristine, untouched island. What begins as a heartfelt climate fable quickly evolves as the protagonist discovers nature’s wonders, only for the narrative to pivot into a haunting, animated dystopian future where those very treasures have vanished. This environmental parable, born from a unique father-son collaboration, utilizes professional cinematography and natural mood lighting to ground its urgent message in a tangible reality.

Director Thierry Albert pairs his son Jules’s early creative vision with evocative animation to visualize a world stripped of its biological wealth. By contrasting the tactile warmth of the 16mm grain with a grim, abstract future, the film delivers an unambiguous thesis on ecological loss. It is a clean, narratively sharp meditation on the fragility of our planet, reminding us that the greatest riches are those we are currently on the verge of destroying forever.

Duration: 5 Minutes

"Forest Guardian -stories from the Heart of Wood"

Director: Małgorzata Szyszka Country: Poland

Deep within Poland's ancient Białowieża Forest — the last primeval woodland in Europe — one man has appointed himself its guardian. Since childhood, Tomasz Onikijuk has lived in harmony with the forest, versed in its herbs, its animals and the rituals of his ancestors. During the contested 2017 logging protests he stepped fully into the role of protector, sacrificing his livelihood and his standing in the community to defend every patch of woodland. This intimate character study follows him as he shelters refugees, safeguards bison and wolves, and improbably becomes a social-media voice inspiring young people to fall back in love with nature. Moving through the magical landscapes of Podlasie, the film braids Slavic mythology with modern-day activism, painting a heartfelt portrait of a man for whom the forest is not a place to live, but a living being to be defended.

Duration: 60 Minutes

Women of Saos

Director: Alkistis Voulgari Country: Greece

On the Greek island of Samothrace, beneath the wild slopes of Mount Saos, the artistic duo Quokka set out to meet the women who have shaped local life — especially its farmers. Their journey brings them to Lemonia, Evaggelia, Eleni, Valentina, Zafeiria and Efthymitsa, who open their homes, their kitchens and their memories. Through shared meals, laughter and quiet confidences, the film gathers an intimate oral history spanning migration to Germany, hard-won adaptation and the everyday heroism of rural endurance. Each encounter is its own world, yet all are bound to the island's past and the rhythms of a life lived close to the land. Warm, authentic and unhurried, the documentary honours voices too often left unrecorded, celebrating the resilience, humour and deep belonging of generations of island women.

Duration: 18 Minutes

Planted - Donald Watson and the Roots of Veganism

Director: Francesco Bori Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_United Kingdom

Twenty years after his death, the Englishman who coined the word "vegan" and founded a global movement finally steps into the spotlight. This touching short animation tells, for the first time on screen, the fascinating story of Donald Watson — a quiet visionary whose conviction reshaped how millions think about food, animals and our place in the natural world. With warmth and a delicate hand-drawn style, the film traces the roots of an idea that began with one man's ethical resolve and grew into a worldwide philosophy. It is both a heartfelt tribute and a gentle act of historical recovery, restoring a largely forgotten figure to his rightful place. Brief yet resonant, it reminds us that the most far-reaching environmental movements often begin with a single, principled act of imagination.

Duration: 13 Minutes

Everything is fine

Director: Gift Sukez Sukali Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_United States

In a quiet neighborhood, a chemical leak becomes a masterclass in corporate absurdity when an energy representative offers bottled water and gift cards as consolation for benzene exposure. While his wife, Clara, frantically packs to escape the encroaching toxicity, Henry remains resolutely anchored in denial. He reasons that if the danger were truly imminent, the authorities would mandate an evacuation rather than suggesting a voluntary one. This darkly comic environmental satire expertly captures the deadly gap between official reassurance and actual risk, skewering the psychological gymnastics used to ignore catastrophe.

As neighbors spiral into conspiracy theories and sickness takes hold, the narrative escalates with savage irony. Henry’s transition from a skeptical everyman to a man watching the world unravel from his porch is both absurd and hauntingly believable. By examining the dangerous intersection of misinformation and complacency, the film delivers a crystal-clear message about the human tendency to prioritize comfort over survival until it is far too late.

Duration: 10 Minutes

OXYGÈNE (VO)

Director: Roxane Perrot, Ugo Isoard Country: France

Every year, eight million tonnes of plastic end up in our oceans. For one week, a group of around fifteen volunteer freedivers descends into the Mediterranean to haul up the waste accumulated beneath the surface. Holding their breath, Coralie, Jeremy, Karim and Astrid surface again and again with plastics, nets, cans and the buried traces of human life, working the coves along the southern coast of France. Through their intimate stories and their repeated underwater effort, the film lays bare the scale of the pollution — but, more searchingly, it asks why they keep going at all, when they know it will only accumulate again. Why commit, despite the discouragement? What does this silent, breath-held struggle reveal about our bond with the world? A quietly profound meditation on perseverance in the face of an endless tide.

Duration: 52 Minutes

Those Left Behind

Director: Muhammed Emin Çırçır, Mahmut Enes Şahin Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_Türkiye

In the wake of a catastrophic flood driven by extreme seasonal shifts, a young woman returns to the skeletal remains of her ancestral village in Turkey’s Sivas province. What begins as a solitary trek through a desaturated, melancholic wasteland becomes a poignant ethical reckoning. Amidst the rocky ruins of her childhood, she unearths a buried cowbell—a relic that triggers a flood of suppressed memories and a haunting new perspective on the day her family fled.

This atmospheric visual poem masterfully juxtaposes the trauma of human displacement with the often-ignored fate of the non-human life left to the elements. Through sophisticated cinematography and internal monologue, the narrative explores the "burning fire" of a father’s guilt and the silent abandonment of the land itself. By focusing on the animals and nature left behind, the film transcends standard disaster reportage, offering a brief but striking meditation on memory, mercy, and the heavy toll of our changing climate.

Duration: 5 Minutes

Lunatic

Director: Robin Noorda Country: Netherlands

In this surreal stop-motion poem, Robin Noorda crafts a darkly comic meditation on humanity’s relentless habit of leaving waste in its wake. Abandoned on the lunar surface following his coming out, a lonely astronaut named Antonio watches from afar as Earth succumbs to the climate crisis and the terrifying reality of Kessler syndrome. As satellite collisions threaten to trap the planet behind a Saturn-like ring of silicon and metal, Antonio attempts a desperate act of terraforming amidst the celestial junk.

Guided by an omniscient voiceover and the silent gaze of a skinned warrior statue, the film delivers a sharp intellectual edge through its improvisational animation and visceral set design. This award-winning experimental vision serves as an urgent ecological warning, reframing space tourism and consumerism as a "giant heap by mankind." Re-released with a brand-new soundtrack, this cerebral, satirical journey challenges us to confront the debris of our civilization before we are left in total incommunicado.

Duration: 16 Minutes

Pachamama

Director: Rosario Jiménez Gili Country: Argentina

Two hosts, Wara and Juan, embark on a transformative bicycle expedition through the diverse ecosystems of Argentina’s Jujuy province. This comprehensive environmental primer bridges the gap between ancient Andean cosmovision and urgent contemporary science. As they pedal through various landscapes, the duo encounters credible experts to investigate critical issues ranging from the poisoning of condors to the innovative potential of solar energy. The journey is structured around the Quechua cosmology of Kai Pacha, Uku Pacha, and Hanan Pacha, grounding every scientific inquiry in a deeply rooted regional identity. The film offers a rigorous look at the reforestation of queñua forests and the tangible impact of conservation projects, such as the rescue of hundreds of condors and large-scale recycling initiatives. By blending indigenous perspectives with modern advocacy, the experience challenges the travelers’ habits and their fundamental relationship with the planet. It serves as an inspiring call to action, illustrating how traditional wisdom and scientific rigor can unite to protect a world...

Duration: 60 Minutes

Citizen Lizard

Director: Guga Betanin Country: Brazil

Under the sun of the cities in northeastern Brazil, the common lizard, a silent citizen sharing space with humans, reveals how wildlife resists and adapts to the chaotic pace of urban life.

Duration: 15 Minutes

Sanda - Spiny Tailed Lizard

Director: Akanksha Sood Singh Country: India

In the scorched expanse of the Thar desert, a diminutive reptile emerges as a profound metaphor for survival within a volatile landscape. This compelling documentary follows scholar Caleb Gnonavalu as he traverses India’s northwestern frontier, documenting the precarious existence of the spiny-tailed lizard. While the creature has long coexisted with local herding communities who take its presence for granted, it now faces an unforeseen existential threat: a counter-intuitive conservation project intended to protect the Great Indian Bustard.

Occupying a vital niche in the regional food chain, the lizard’s habitat is caught between traditional grazing practices and modern administrative interventions. As Gnonavalu attempts to bridge the gap between academic insight and local skepticism, the film captures the human and ecological friction inherent in conservation. It is a nuanced portrait of a non-native researcher struggling to earn trust while delivering an urgent lesson on how to safeguard a tiny yet irreplaceable inhabitant of the shifting sands.

Duration: 35 Minutes

On Melting Snow

Director: Mojtaba Bahadori Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_Belgium, Iceland

Each landscape holds a memory of our planet — memories cruelly divided by time and by the political borders we have drawn across the Earth. For thirty-three years, artist Sophie Cauvin has travelled to engage with these transformed terrains, gathering their fragmented stories and reuniting them in her astonishing works of art. This contemplative documentary follows her decades-long journey, where painting becomes a form of witness and reconciliation, binding together what history and geography have torn apart. Landscapes scarred by change are not merely depicted but felt, their wounds and resilience transferred onto the canvas. Quietly powerful, the film reflects on memory, borders and the slow violence of environmental transformation, suggesting that art can hold what the world risks forgetting — a meditation on landscape as living memory, and on the artist as its patient keeper.

Duration: 73 Minutes

SIBI

Director: Mike Mckay Country: Canada

A poetic immersion in the life of a river, where water is not a resource to be used but a living relative to be honoured. Moving between flowing images of the river, cosmic creation stories and the reflections of Anishinaabe knowledge keepers, the film reveals water as a carrier of memory and a witness to generations of change. There is no conventional argument here, only a patient, lyrical attentiveness that invites the viewer to listen as the river listens. Indigenous wisdom reframes our relationship to the natural world, dissolving the line between human and environment, past and present. Meditative and quietly radical, it asks us to recognise kinship where modern life sees only utility — a love letter to water as ancestor, teacher and the living thread that binds all life together.

Duration: 6 Minutes

Sora: still waters run deep

Director: Mitja Legat Country: Slovenia

The Sora River is a dual entity: a slow, life-giving ecosystem that sustains Slovenia’s biodiversity and a wild, destructive force that periodically reclaims its territory. Produced during the year of Slovenia’s millennial floods, this documentary explores the delicate balance between human industry and the natural world. Director Mitja Legat utilizes his background in outdoor cinematography to capture the river’s many faces, contrasting serene salmonid habitats with catastrophic aerial footage of the 2023 disaster.

The film moves beyond simple observation to examine how decades of industrial pollution and river channelization have disrupted natural rhythms. By tracing the history of environmental mismanagement from the 1980s to the present day, the narrative delivers a scientifically grounded argument for conservation. It serves as a stark reminder that the devastating floods are not merely natural accidents, but the direct consequence of human encroachment. This is a vital, clear-eyed look at the urgent need for sustainable cohabitation with our waterways.

Duration: 9 Minutes

INTO THE WILD

Director: Cecile Quiroz Country: France

The film roams the American West and its singular ecosystems, where iconic species such as wild mustangs and coyotes face mounting threats. Travelling alongside zoologist Yvan Kereun, it blends rigorous science with Indigenous knowledge and hands-on conservation practice. Through encounters with researchers and local communities, the documentary moves beyond alarm to spotlight tangible solutions for protecting these fragile landscapes — restoration, coexistence, and a renewed respect for the wild. At its heart lies a searching question about our own relationship with nature: what do we owe the creatures and places we have pushed to the edge? Sweeping and hopeful in equal measure, it is a genuine invitation to act in the face of today's environmental challenges, arguing that knowledge, humility and shared effort can still turn the tide for the West's vanishing wildlife.

Duration: 50 Minutes

INTO THE CARPATHIAN WILD_Autumn

Director: Erik Baláž Country: Slovakia

European wildlife is under threat as never before, and its last great refuge is the Carpathians — home to the continent's most extensive primeval forests and its largest populations of bears, wolves and lynx, alongside a dazzling diversity of other creatures. Following the rhythm of autumn, the film moves through a series of intimate vignettes: bears gorging on berries and pine nuts before hibernation, red deer locked in the rut, a wilderness quietly bracing for winter. Through these individual animal stories it reveals the invisible threads that bind every species into a single living system — one that stores water, draws carbon from the air and safeguards the diversity of life itself. Beautifully photographed and patiently observed, it is a celebration of Europe's last wilderness and a reminder of how much remains worth protecting.

Duration: 52 Minutes

Arrested Autonomy

Director: Stephanie Froebel Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_Not Specified

Deep in the Bolivian Amazon, infant spider monkeys Ñoqui, Cesar, and Ness face a precarious transition. Rescued from the brutal illegal pet trade, these orphans must navigate the paradox of wildlife rehabilitation: humans must intervene to undo the damage humans caused, yet that very presence threatens the independence required for survival. This 75-minute observational documentary serves as a thoughtful meditation on conservation ethics, grounded in philosophical sophistication and umwelt theory. Director Stephanie Froebel captures the messy reality of biodiversity loss through cinematic jungle landscapes and intentional, atmospheric cinematography.

The film avoids easy answers, instead leaning into the emotional weight of the volunteers' reflections and the uncertain journey of the monkeys. As the infants attempt to reclaim their place in the wild, the narrative questions whether true freedom can ever be brokered by human hands. It is a direct, unwavering look at the limits of compassion and the complexities of human-animal connections within a fragile ecosystem.

Duration: 75 Minutes

Lost Songs Of Sundari

Director: Sudarshan Sarjerao Sawant Country: India

Mumbai was once a cluster of villages stitched together by the sea. Now bridges and land-reclamation projects are remaking it — and the cost is the burial of an older world, that of the indigenous Koli people who lived in deep harmony with the water. Their fishing practices and the ferry network that linked their villages are being rendered obsolete. This elegiac short follows the Koli myth of Sundari, a legendary ferryboat, and its ferrywoman who once guided people across the creeks long before the monstrous bridges rose. Through a woman recounting the tale and an ageing ferry operator who still works the Versova–Madh crossing, the film mourns a vanishing way of life with visual assurance and quiet ambition. A poetic lament for indigenous knowledge and a coastline erased in the name of progress.

Duration: 9 Minutes

The VIth (The Sixth)

Director: John Arthur Little Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_United States

A cinematic reckoning with the Anthropocene — the age of human-driven planetary change. From the "deafening silence" of the Fermi Paradox to fossils buried beneath Montana's wheat fields, the film bridges atmospheric physics and the lived reality of those on the front lines of a shifting climate. Through the eyes of an Alaskan astrophysicist and a multi-generational Montana farming family, it moves beyond conventional environmental "preaching" to examine a system pushed past its redline — where the same hubris driving short-term profit now threatens the very rights and livelihoods of the people it harms. Part scientific diagnostic, part human portrait, it sets cosmic perspective against intimate testimony. Ambitious and clear-eyed, it asks what it means to inhabit the sixth great extinction, and whether we can still recognise — and reverse — the patterns of our own making.

Duration: 62 Minutes

The Invisible Mammal

Director: Kristin Tieche Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_United States

Against the backdrop of the sixth mass extinction, an all-woman team of biologists races to save North American bats from a deadly fungal disease devastating their populations. Then the COVID-19 pandemic interrupts their work — and sends them down an unexpected path of discovery, illuminating the deep connections between bat conservation and the spread of infectious disease. Polished, timely and quietly urgent, this award-winning conservation documentary balances rigorous science with intimate, character-driven storytelling, following dedicated researchers whose passion is as compelling as the stakes. It reframes a misunderstood, often-feared creature as essential to the web of life and to human health alike. Both an emotional portrait and a clear-eyed call to action, the film makes a persuasive case that protecting the world's most overlooked mammals may be inseparable from protecting ourselves.

Duration: 89 Minutes

The Extra Mile

Director: Rafael Duarte Country: Brazil

Mountaineer Bernardo Fonseca sets out to climb Mount Everest with a purpose beyond the summit: to carry a message to the world about the fragility of mountain environments. As he ascends from the villages of the Khumbu Valley to the highest camps, he discovers a quiet movement already under way — locals and visitors alike working to manage waste and clean up slopes that decades of expeditions have scarred. Their dedication becomes the film's beating heart, transforming a personal challenge into a shared call for responsibility. Breathtaking high-altitude photography captures both the staggering beauty and the vulnerability of the world's tallest peaks. More than an adventure, the documentary is an invitation to self-reflection, asking how each of us engages with wild places — and what we owe to the mountains we love to climb.

Duration: 26 Minutes

The call of the glacier - Rhonegletschervorfeld

Director: Hassan Lakhdar Country: Switzerland

High in the rugged terrain of the Haut-Valais, the retreating ice of the Rhône glacier reveals a landscape in profound transition. Following Vanessa and Gabriel as they navigate this high-altitude terrain, the documentary offers a dual perspective on our changing planet. While the film confronts the stark concrete implications of climate change, it simultaneously uncovers a rare ecological marvel: an alpine alluvial plain where the Rhône river still winds with uninhibited freedom.

This immersive journey balances the somber reality of glacial recession with the vibrant resilience of a liberated waterway. By documenting the intricate dance between melting ice and emerging life, the film captures a delicate ecosystem at a pivotal crossroads. It is an observant, visually arresting study of environmental flux that eschews easy sentimentality for a grounded look at the earth’s shifting borders. Vanessa and Gabriel’s exploration serves as a vital testament to the raw, transformative power of a landscape reclaiming its natural flow.

Duration: 15 Minutes

The Great Thaw

Director: Michaela Grill, Karl Leimuex Country: Canada

How do you film the slow violence of a warming planet? This rigorous experimental documentary takes on permafrost collapse in the Canadian Arctic, turning a climate emergency into a hypnotic visual essay. Gliding camera movements drift across snow-covered landscapes that slip in and out of abstraction, confusing scale and perspective until ice, rock and horizon dissolve into pure texture. The title points in two directions at once — toward a catastrophic future and a disastrous present already under way. Rather than explain, the film asks how a time-based medium can convey the vast, creeping temporality of global heating, and how we might picture destruction we can barely perceive. Made by acclaimed experimental artists whose work has shown in major museums and festivals, it never softens the gravity of its subject. The result is serious, beautiful and unsettling cinema — a meditation on seeing the unseeable as the Arctic transforms before us.

Duration: 45 Minutes

Blue

Director: Ziyan Zhao Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_South Korea

The discharge of nuclear waste shattered the peace of the seabed, forcing Blue the dolphin and her family to scatter in all directions—beginning an endless exile.

Duration: 4 Minutes

The island & its people

Director: Aristea Mamidaki Country: Greece

In this evocative ten-minute documentary, the rugged terrain of Crete serves as a battlefield between enduring heritage and the relentless tide of global tourism. The film avoids easy nostalgia, instead grounding its narrative in the lived experiences of two locals: Yorgos, a dedicated village museum keeper guarding fossils and endemic herbs, and Popi, who spent four decades working within the tourism industry. Through their contrasting perspectives, the film weaves a tapestry of community memory set against the stark reality of environmental and cultural erosion.

The cinematography captures the jarring transition from the profound silence of abandoned mountain villages to the industrial chaos of cruise ships and swarming resorts. By juxtaposing these worlds, the documentary highlights an island caught in a precarious state of survival. It is a poetic meditation on grief and loss that refuses to look away from the fragility of the landscape. Ultimately, a flicker of hope remains, questioning what will be left for the generations to come.

Duration: 10 Minutes

The Darkness: Lessons on Solar Energy, Community, and Power.

Director: Nelson Varas-Díaz Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_Puerto Rico

In the wake of systemic failure and the shadows of colonial neglect, the Alto de Cuba community in Puerto Rico refuses to remain in the dark. Director Nelson Varas-Díaz delivers a politically-charged examination of climate adaptation that transcends the typical disaster narrative. Rather than treating infrastructure collapse as a natural tragedy, this ethnographic documentary frames the transition to renewables as a necessary act of energetic insurrection. By partnering with the grassroots organization Casa Pueblo, residents confront the privatization of the power grid to reclaim their health and safety through solar energy. The film moves beyond rhetoric to document the material transformation of a community navigating medical emergencies and economic precarity without light. Through moving testimony and procedural detail, it outlines five vital lessons on building a just, sustainable future. This is a clear-eyed study of energy democracy, proving that collective action can ignite hope. It is not merely a story of technology, but a profound testament to community resilience against...

Duration: 20 Minutes

Bagula's Plan for Plastic Domination

Director: Taylor Mcnulty Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_United States

What if the most dangerous villain on Earth were not a monster, but a plastic bag? This sharp short animation introduces a vampiric carrier bag scheming for world domination — a comic monologue that turns quietly chilling as you realise its plan is already unfolding all around us. Through the bag's gleeful boasting, the film mirrors the silent, relentless spread of plastic waste through our oceans, streets and bodies. Both entertaining and unsettling, it uses villainous comedy to smuggle in an uncomfortable truth: the domination it describes is not science fiction but the world we have already built. Crisp, witty and economical, the animation proves that humour can be a Trojan horse for environmental urgency — leaving audiences laughing even as the realisation lands.

Duration: 3 Minutes

The Fish

Director: Jan Górecki Country: Poland

While cleaning up a river bank after a New Year's Eve party, a street cleaner rescues a golden fish, which allows him to make 3 wishes.

Duration: 2 Minutes

LOVE SONG FOR A WAILING EARTH

Director: Scott Lawrence Kirschenbaum Country: COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_United States

Set against the haunting beauty of Appalachia, this short dance film follows one woman returning home in the wake of Hurricane Helene to confront what was lost — and what remains. Through an unvarnished, vulnerable performance, dancer Conway Weary channels the collective grief of climate trauma into movement, her body becoming a vessel for sorrow, memory and fragile endurance. There is no narration and no argument, only the eloquence of gesture set within a landscape scarred by catastrophe. The result is a raw, poetic meditation on displacement and ecological loss, where mourning itself becomes a form of testimony. Brief and deeply felt, the film transforms personal devastation into something shared and luminous — an elegy in motion for places and lives reshaped by an increasingly violent climate.

Duration: 10 Minutes

FOOD FOR THOSE IN NEED

Director: Leonardo Brant Country: Brazil

In 2014, Brazil was removed from the UN Hunger Map, yet less than a decade later, 33 million citizens suffer from severe food insecurity. This urgent documentary investigates the paradox of a global agricultural powerhouse grappling with a chronic internal wound. Moving beyond shame, the film explores the historical roots of this crisis while spotlighting the grassroots solidarity turning outrage into action. From São Paulo’s urban kitchens to the frontlines of Yanomami territory, the narrative highlights the vital nexus between environmental stewardship and food security.

The film captures the resilience of quilombola communities and agroecology farmers who prove that preserving biodiversity is the key to sustainable nutrition. By documenting indigenous leaders and activists who have abandoned traditional careers to fight systemic neglect, the production offers a compelling survey of proven public policies and community-based solutions. It is a sobering yet hopeful map toward a future where solidarity ensures no one is left behind.

Duration: 70 Minutes

WHALES - beloved and hunted

Director: Michael Nieberg Country: Germany

Despite a global prohibition on whaling, the practice remains a stark reality within European waters. After years of meticulous research, filmmaker Michael Nieberg achieves a rare feat: capturing a Norwegian whaling vessel in active operation. While the documentary consciously spares the audience from the most visceral, blood-soaked imagery, it provides a rigorous anatomical breakdown of how the industry functions and the complex web of interests sustaining it.

The film distinguishes itself through a commitment to neutrality, refusing to simplify the narrative into a binary conflict between conservationists and hunters. Instead, Nieberg presents a sober, panoramic view of the current situation in Norway and Iceland. By examining the economic drivers and cultural motivations behind the hunt, the documentary invites viewers to consider pragmatic solutions for the future. Could the burgeoning whale-watching industry offer a viable economic alternative? This is a composed and essential investigation into the survival of these marine giants in a modern world.

Duration: 29 Minutes

Greater Flamingo

Director: Akanksha Sood Singh Country: India

For PhD scholar Amit Kumar, the escalating urbanization of Delhi and its satellite suburbs represents more than a loss of landscape; it is a erasure of identity. While the National Capital Region hurtles toward an almost-apocalyptic industrial future defined by encroached lands and suffocating air, its human inhabitants remain dangerously oblivious to a permanent neighbor. This urgent documentary follows Dr. Kumar’s mission to dismantle the myth of the bird as a mere migratory guest. These elegant creatures are not temporary visitors capable of simply choosing greener pastures; they are native residents choking under the weight of hyper-industrialization and climate change.

By documenting a species that is neither recognized as local nor protected as part of the region’s original biodiversity, the film exposes a fragile coexistence at its breaking point. This is a vital, sobering meditation on ecological displacement, reminding us that when we ignore the wild kin sharing our home, their disappearance becomes inevitable.

Duration: 34 Minutes

Voices of the mountains

Director: Laboratory For Visual Storytelling Country: Tajikistan

From Tajikistan comes a delicate animated documentary in which an entire mountain town speaks — not through its people alone, but through its very objects. Water, a wooden chest, a kite, a lonely widow, a partridge: each lends its voice to a poetic meditation on a community shaped by mudslides. Hand-drawn white-line animation drifts over footage of ruins, turning disaster into something woven quietly into the fabric of daily memory — not a single catastrophe, but a lived and ongoing reality. Created together with young authors, the film treats nature not as a backdrop but as a fragile archive, where human voices, loss and resilience coexist. Spare, lyrical and unexpectedly moving, it finds in personal narration and simple line a way to hold both grief and endurance — a small, luminous portrait of life beneath unstable peaks.

Duration: 10 Minutes