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In its third edition, Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival is back with a special two-day program, in collaboration with Environment Agency Abu Dhabi and New York University Abu Dhabi and will focus on the upcoming COP28.
Join us for powerful cinema, a more intimate relationship with ecology, and enriching conversations. Prepare to embark on a global cinematic journey as we dive deep into this year’s’ theme, water. Our lineup of fascinating films spans the globe, offering a rich tapestry of perspectives on this vital natural element. As the UAE gears up for COP 28, we embark on a cinematic journey.
Our theme is Water(s). Water and climate change are intertwined in our film program. Our diverse films span the globe offering creative cinematic voices and new perspectives on the environment.
Three animal lives entangle at the edge of the sea. Horseshoe crabs spawn on eroded urban beaches, migrating shorebirds seek sustenance at a midpoint, and humans attempt to make a difference in this age of mass extinction.
Ocean roar, shacks in the desert stones dry coast heat weeds, money, and wine sky music dogs, rusty automobiles Chile's wind, sun, and reefs noise silence noise silence noise silence noise silence noise silence noise.
The film is a journey through images to the end of the world as we know it and to an immersion with the world that we have chosen not to know, but without which we will no longer exist.
In the documentary "Pisar Suavemente na Terra", three Indigenous leaders from the Amazon try to keep their ways of being in the world alive. This is the story of Kátia, chief of the Akrãtikatêjê people, of Manuel, chief of the Munduruku people and of José Manuyama, a teacher of Kokama origin. The three narrate the threats to their territories promoted by large-scale mining, monoculture, oil extraction, logging and the construction of hydroelectric plants. Interconnected by the voice and ancestral thoughts of Ailton Krenak, these accounts of resistance present us with other ways of existing and walking in the world.
'The Land' documents the uprising of the people of Bisri and activists from all of Lebanon against the construction of the dangerous dam leading up to the Bisri Valley's liberation. Farmers and shepherds discuss their fears of losing the land and their intimate relationship with it. It also presents the project's seismic and geological dangers, its futility, the conflicts of interests surrounding its construction, and its destruction of a rich and significant area in every respect.
It traces a journey of an audio installation artist who visits the largest coal mining region of Eastern India. There he encounters depleting natural resources and a landscape shaped by fire and water.
A Hemlock forest in Western Massachusetts that is dying due to the Woolly Adelgid beetle infestation tells a larger story about climate collapse and the interconnections between the natural and the built environments.
A story about one of the last few fishermen in Lake Qarun in Fayoum, Egypt. The lake, which has been a key source for fishing over thousands years, got deteriorated significantly over the last two decades; making young fishermen leave to coastal cities and old fishermen live in nostalgia for the good old days.