Climate Film Festival 2024

<p>Seoul has changed day and night due to the extreme UV rays caused by the climate crisis. Now people sleep during the day and work at night. In-Kyung, who is 30 years old, lives with her older sister who works a regular job. In-Kyung works part-time as an insurance counselor during the day and sleeps at night. One day, In-Kyung gets a phone call from her sister telling her to come out right away at midday when everyone is asleep.</p>

<p>Communities in the arid high-mountain region of Ladakh rely on glacial meltwater to feed streams and water crops during the spring and summer months. Global warming is dramatically re-shaping the future of these areas. In this episode of ADAPTATION, Aliz&eacute; Carr&egrave;re meets Sonam Wangchuk, a Ladakhi teacher and engineer who has devised an extraordinary method to capture and store excess glacial runoff into magnificent ice pyramids. ADAPTATION is a PBS digital series created by scientist and National Geographic Explorer Aliz&eacute; Carr&egrave;re, who examines the myriad ways communities around the world are learning to live with climate change in innovative and surprising ways.</p>

<p>John Sabraw is a renowned artist who goes caving in waders to extract pollution from rivers and turn chemicals into pigments in a former coal town. Not only does he create artworks exploding with colour, he&rsquo;s building a multi-million dollar carbon-neutral factory that will expand this process to create paint for industrial use, restoring miles of waterways and cutting carbon in one stroke.</p>

<p>Witness the extraordinary life of Dr. Lonnie Thompson, an explorer who went where no scientist had gone before and transformed our idea of what is possible. Daring to seek Earth&#39;s history contained in glaciers atop the tallest mountains in the world, Lonnie found himself on the frontlines of climate change&mdash;his life&#39;s work evolving into a salvage mission to recover these priceless historical records before they disappear forever.</p>

<p>The WNET Group&#39;s All Arts &amp; The Serica Initiative present digital series Climate Artists, in this episode we follow sTo Len as he creates thought-provoking art that highlights the interconnectedness of Earth&#39;s ecosystems. At the Queens Botanical Garden, he crafts archival prints using natural pigments and rescues discarded plants, engaging deeply with the community. His environmental explorations extend to Newtown Creek, where he transforms polluted waters into art to draw attention to industrial waste. In Vietnam, he innovated printmaking techniques at the polluted Saigon River. During his residency with the New York Department of Sanitation, sTo Len reimagined old sanitation designs and digitized over 500 hours of archival footage, offering a fresh perspective on urban waste management. His art raises awareness about the climate crisis, inspiring us to observe our environment critically and compassionately.</p>

<p>Parking ain&#39;t free, Jackson.<br /> <br /> And thanks to a series of archaic (and frankly pretty stupid) parking minimum laws, the US now has way more parking than we actually need. But why? And when? Maybe even how?<br /> <br /> This episode of Climate Town dives deep into the annals of parking legislation in the US, before coming back around to offer some ideas of what we could actually do to change all this.<br /> <br /> And the good news? There are a bunch of places that have made great progress undoing these parking minimum laws. So if you&#39;re running up against them in your area? Well, friend, you just might have a fighting chance.</p>

<p>Big Picture Ranch and Area 23a present Common Ground&mdash;a hopeful and uplifting story of the pioneers of the &ldquo;Regenerative Movement&rdquo; who produce tremendous quantities of nutritionally dense food and are working to balance the climate&mdash;all while bringing our entire ecosystem back to life. The film explores how Americans from different walks of life, different political backgrounds, and different parts of the country share one thing in common&mdash;he very soil beneath their feet. The film investigates the power of &ldquo;regenerative&rdquo; farming systems&mdash;from large to small-scale farmers who are the champions of soil health as the key to unlocking more (and healthier) food to feed America and the world.</p>

<p>Cyanobotanists are experimenting with historical photographic processes and artificial intelligence trained in natural history archives to encode, reanimate, and virtually recreate the biodiversity of species that have gone extinct due to climate change.</p>

<p>With human civilization facing ever-worsening climate calamities, the captains of industry set their sights on a new planet. Soon, a secret public-private partnership is selling tickets to Mars at a premium out of reach for the majority of the population, for whom the choice is either indentured servitude in the new offworld colony or perishing in the coming cataclysm. When the world&rsquo;s governments decide to speed things up by declaring war on Earth and the rabble they&rsquo;re leaving behind, the planet forges a strategic alliance with an unlikely partner: an underground luddite movement. Some will join the uprising, others will become fanatical defenders of entrenched power structures, while yet others will do everything in their power to continue living exactly the same way they always have. Its star-studded cast and astronomical production values&mdash;painstakingly purloined from some of the biggest blockbusters of the past three decades&mdash;make EARTH II the most expensive climate disaster epic to be produced for no money.</p>

<p>Noah, a charismatic advertising executive, has just launched the ad campaign of his career for the company Nordic Meat. But when his little sister Naia begins live-streaming from the roof of a Nordic Meat factory, accusing the company of greenwashing and threatening to commit so-called &quot;ecocide&quot; by jumping off the building unless they meet her controversial activist network&#39;s demands, Noah is forced to confront his own values and fight for what matters most.</p>

<p>Electrifying Eugene offers a first-hand look at how cities can navigate pushback from the gas industry to pursue viable pathways to decarbonization.<br /> <br /> Following the work of Aya Cockram of Fossil Free Eugene, Arjorie Arberry-Baribeault of Beyond Toxics, Jan Hasselman of Earthjustice, Danny Noonan of Breach Collective, and Eugene&rsquo;s Mayor Lucy Vinis, we explore how one community&rsquo;s efforts to pursue electrification is being met with opposition from Oregon&rsquo;s largest &ldquo;natural&rdquo; gas utility, Northwest Natural&mdash;and how by harnessing a groundswell of community support for fossil fuel controls, they are able to push back.</p>

<p>When global developers purchase Industry City &mdash; a series of connected industrial buildings within a primarily immigrant, working class community in Brooklyn &mdash; conflicting views draw battlelines between residents, city officials and master planners as the fate of the city and contemporary urban development hangs in the balance.</p>

<p>Examines the historical plight of Black farmers in the United States and the rising generation reclaiming their rightful ownership to land and reconnecting with their ancestral roots.<br /> <br /> As the co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York, Leah Penniman finds strength in the deep historical knowledge of African agrarianism &ndash; agricultural practices that can heal people and the planet. Influenced and inspired by Karen Washington, a pioneer in urban community gardens in New York City, and fellow farmer and organizer Blain Snipstal, Leah galvanizes around farming as the basis of revolutionary justice.<br /> <br /> In 1910, Black farmers owned 14 percent of all American farmland. Over the intervening decades, that number fell below two percent, the result of racism, discrimination, and dispossession. The film chronicles Penniman and two other Black farmers&rsquo; efforts to reclaim their agricultural heritage. Collectively, their work has a major impact, as each is a leader in sustainable agriculture and food justice movements.</p>

<p>One of the biggest triggers of global warming is something all of us do every day: eating. Growing and processing food uses enormous amounts of energy, water, and chemicals and has created an overwhelming burden on our planet&#39;s resources. Fortunately, intrepid scientists and innovators around the world are responding to the crisis and reimagining entirely new ways of producing food.<br /> <br /> Food From the Air tells the story of Lisa Dyson, the founder of Air Protein, a company driven by ambitions almost as vast as space itself. The 4th African American woman ever to earn a doctorate in physics, Lisa has taken on an extraordinary mission: to create food from pure elements of the air. Inspired by NASA research from the 1960s, Air Protein doesn&#39;t require any arable land, is carbon negative, and produces tasty, healthy food in just hours&mdash;it seems like magic. We watch her team of young scientists expanding the Air Protein menu, from meat to pasta, to bread and ice cream, showcasing the tremendous potential of human ingenuity. It is a story of tackling the impossible, of the power of scientific creativity&mdash;and ultimately, of hope.</p>

<p>Inspired by the sketches in his late grandmother&rsquo;s sketchbooks, artist and filmmaker Max Romey retraces her travels to the remote beaches of Katmai Alaska with Ocean Plastics Recovery. There, he joins a group of marine debris experts and discovers there are a lot of people making footprints on Katmai without ever visiting.</p>

<p>For You is a letter from a father to his two-year-old son. This project is deeply intimate and personal, yet it carries a universal message: though the future may be uncertain, with love, courage, and imagination, we can build a better future. Set in Peckham, South East London, where the director lives with his family, the story is narrated in Italian, the language he has spoken to his son since birth. Now more than ever, the future of our planet appears uncertain, and our children are urging us to take action to help them build a better tomorrow. This film aims to foster a positive perspective. Instead of succumbing to fear, it inspires us to draw strength from our children and envision a brighter future&mdash;an idea truly worth fighting for.</p>

<p>Freetown, Sierra Leone faces significant challenges due to rising temperatures and a large impoverished population unable to afford cooling. In response, the city has appointed Eugenia Kargbo as Africa&#39;s first Chief Heat Officer to raise awareness and develop heat mitigation strategies. Collaborating with MEER (Mirrors for Earth&#39;s Energy Rebalancing), founded by Dr. Ye Tao, Freetown is pioneering the use of passive cooling materials to create mirrors that reflect sunlight and reduce local temperatures. A team of recent graduates from Freetown&#39;s university implemented this technology in Kroo Bay, lowering indoor temperatures by 5-7℃ (9-13&deg;F) and significantly improving residents&#39; quality of life. The documentary highlights the transformative impact on a local family and plans for broader implementation to help more residents.</p>

<p>A COURIER hires a biker to help deliver a package to a rural villager, RIPON. Ripon&rsquo;s neighbors are delighted to welcome the Courier since packages are rarely delivered to this remote village. Ripon is surprised that anyone would send him a package. When he opens it, he is shocked to find the courier has delivered a box filled with GARBAGE.</p>

<p>&ldquo;Giant clams give the reef life,&rdquo; says Delphia Selch, &ldquo;but today we hardly can see them on our reef.&rdquo; Giant clams play a critical role in marine ecosystems and food production all around the world, especially in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), a North Pacific country of over 600 islands. For 17 years, Martin Selch and his wife Delphia have been growing endangered species of giant clams on the island of Kosrae, the smallest of FSM&#39;s states with a population of under 7,000. These clams not only contribute to repopulating the reefs, but also provide sustainable and local food security. Climate change and sediment runoff has caused many local giant clam species to become endangered or extinct. However, Martin and Delphia have dedicated their lives to cultivating six varieties of giant clams including Tridacna gigas, the world&#39;s largest mollusk species, that previously had disappeared from Kosrae&#39;s waters.</p>

<p>An international diary of the impact of climate change is constructed from thousands of hours of in-the-moment footage. Through the process, we witness the deep human resilience, resourcefulness and courage necessary to confront the world&rsquo;s most pressing challenge.</p>

<p>Intelligent life descends to a planet Earth reeling from threats of climate change. Humanity looks to their advanced visitors as saviors of their burning home &ndash; when really, they&rsquo;ve just come bearing a fiery death ray of their own. But the aliens&rsquo; mission of planetary annihilation becomes complicated, when one of them gets the hots for a local barista&hellip;<br /> <br /> Featuring an hilarious performance from Seinfeld&rsquo;s John O&rsquo;Hurley, Higher Grounds is sci-fi relationship comedy that takes an orbital view of life on Earth.</p>

<p>Hollow Tree is about three teenagers coming of age in their sinking homeland of Louisiana. For the first time, they notice the Mississippi River&rsquo;s engineering, stumps of cypress trees, and billowing smokestacks. Their different perspectives &mdash; as Indigenous, white, and Angolan young women &mdash; shape their story of the climate crisis.</p>

<p>This season . . . love&rsquo;s not the only thing in the air. Tune in to the explosive new show where one unsuspecting homeowner with a &ldquo;natural&rdquo; gas hookup is forced to live with 21 of the hottest, most toxic housemates imaginable. The show may be made up, but the methane in your home is very, very real.</p>

<p>The story of a man largely unknown in the West, but who is a household name and hero to Nigerians. Ken Saro Wiwa was a prolific writer and activist who led the ethnic minority of the Ogoni to protest the devastating effects of oil exploitation on their land.</p>

<p>When angry ecologist Leo needs to borrow his exuberant real estate developer dad Jerome&#39;s car for a career-defining experiment, disaster ensues.</p>

<p>In the late 1960&rsquo;s Bernie Krause was a prolific composer &amp; a foley artist who pioneered synthesizers and worked with industry giants such as Francis Ford Coppola, the Doors, and the Rolling Stones, but after one chance encounter with the sounds of the wilderness, he chose to change his career path in life, setting out to gather wild field recordings to help battle the climate crisis using acoustic information. Over half a century later, his vast archive of captured soundscapes reflects dire habitat devastation in the world, yet also yields urgent stories about the need for immediate change. In October of 2017, Bernie saw the face of global warming and it was on his front porch. As the wildfires completely ravaged his home and recording studio of many years, Bernie and his wife, Kat barely escaped with their lives that night. Struck by the tragic and intimate immediacy of climate change, their message has become ever more urgent, yet still, filled with hope. &ldquo;The Last of the Nightingales&#39;&#39; invites the audience to experience the rich acoustic beauty of the living world through Bernie&rsquo;s ears, exceptionally attuned over decades and reconnect with that world before it fades right in front of us. Well over half of the ecosystems recorded in Bernie&rsquo;s immense archive are now completely silent or will never be heard in their original voice again due to the profound effect climate change has had on the stability, biodiversity, and resilience of virtually all ecosystems on Earth. But what happens when nature becomes the teacher and the soundscapes, our Rosetta Stone, in helping us decipher her mysteries and invaluable clues? As more and more soundscapes fall silent, Bernie reminds us that it is not too late to begin listening.</p>

<p>This seriously absurd environmental comedy tackles both urgent earthly and unearthly issues like space debris, the climate crisis, and human waste, as seen by a lonely astronaut, Antonio, who was left behind on the moon after his coming out.</p>

<p>A glaciologist goes on perilous trips to measure ice while leaving this family behind. &nbsp;<em>&ndash; DeWitt Davis</em></p>

<p>On Alaska&rsquo;s remote St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, shy teenager Agra Chris Apassingok is the best hunter in his village, but warming seas have made the annual whale hunt, which supplies food and resources for his village for most of the year, that much tougher. When he proudly shares a hunting accomplishment on social media for his indigenous community, he becomes a target for online bullying that severely threatens his mental health. This is a stunning film of family, love, tradition, and self-determination, with a thrilling soundtrack by indigenous musicians. &ndash;&nbsp;<em>Jaie Laplante</em>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Shelter is one of humanity&rsquo;s most basic needs. As the global population grows, how can we rethink the way we live to build a more sustainable tomorrow?</p>

<p>We are backing up the planet, creating 3D models of animals, rainforests, cities and people. We are archiving as if ecological collapse could be staved off through some digital Noah&rsquo;s Ark of beasts and objects. OUR ARK is an essay film on our efforts to create a virtual replica of the real world.</p>

<p>Across the Amazon, Indigenous guards are unarmed patrols that peacefully defend ancestral territories against threats like oil, mining, and poaching. They use diverse technologies to monitor their lands, and when necessary, force out illegal operations and actors. Most of this daily work, which involves lengthy hikes and patient observation, goes unseen. This film depicts the process of the Indigenous Guard: its patrols, its watchful vigilance over the landscape, and its support of the community. Their work as guards helps ensure that destruction in the Amazon doesn&#39;t advance, and that their community has the vital space it needs to live life on their own terms.<br /> <br /> Our Children&rsquo;s River follows La Guardia of Sinangoe, Ecuador, an Indigenous Guard patrolling their ancestral lands to protect one of Earth&rsquo;s most biodiverse places from extractive industries and their right to self-determination.</p>

<p>A modern, comedic twist on the classic creature horror genre, Out of Plastic explores the will of humanity to find permanence on Earth&mdash;through whatever means necessary. Since the first synthetic plastic created by Leo Baekeland in 1907, engineers have searched for ways to improve and expand on plastic. In this horror short, an engineer takes on the ultimate mission&mdash;replicating the immortality of plastics into a living organism.</p>

<p>Ari, an introverted teen, moves to a new place due to her mother&rsquo;s job. Amidst apocalyptic news and her mother&#39;s distraction, Ari&#39;s mental state deteriorates. Overwhelmed, she starts to lose grip on reality. Her breakdown leads to panic and she passes out. Awakening, Ari is drawn to the ocean, finding solace but unsure if it&rsquo;s real or a dream.</p>

<p>In 1971, John Francis, known the world over as &quot;Planetwalker,&quot; witnessed an oil tanker collision in the San Francisco Bay. The sight of oiled birds on the shoreline caused him to give up motorized transport and rely solely on his own two feet. Months after that, he took a vow of silence convinced that listening rather than adding fuel to any fire was the way ahead. He didn&rsquo;t talk, but he kept on walking clear across the country and back again. During the next seventeen silent years, he listened and studied the world around him.<br /> <br /> Over many miles, his idea of environmentalism changed. At the core of his emerging belief were the people he met, talked to, and broke bread with.</p>

<p>Artist resident PINECONE commits theriocide [killing a non-human animal by a human] when he loses his mind and hacks a possum to death. In true slasher film fashion, the possum&rsquo;s demise is both gruesome and entertaining. A shameful Pinecone brings the corpse to the other residents. Supported by snappy editing and camera whips, the residents process what to do with the kill and how to punish Pinecone. Through unanimity, and sidebars into the politics of class, gender, and disability, the residents come to a shocking conclusion.</p>

<p>Scientists are on a mission to save parasites&mdash;not to kill them. Climate change is already doing an increasingly good job at the latter, and that could be a big problem for the world.</p>

<p>Fluorescent critters groove through a coastal world, led by a superior choir. Their carefree crawl, however, is increasingly disturbed by the rising seas. As an invisible force gnaws its way up the beaches, one individual after another disappears. But is an invisible danger really worth slowing down the usual crawl? An insight into the hustle and bustle of a diverse critter community, characterized by peer pressure, shining egos, and a pinch of cute stubbornness.</p>

<p>An intimate look at Indigenous culture and salmon fishing, with a focus on an Alaskan family that fights to defend their history, future, and lifestyle.&nbsp;<em>&ndash; Anita Raswant</em>&nbsp;</p>

<p>A 13-year-old aspiring journalist investigates his father&rsquo;s mysterious murder within the boundaries of one of Kenya&rsquo;s largest wildlife conservancies. As a ravaging drought encroaches, his quest to find the killer shifts as the collateral damage of a warming world is revealed.</p>

<p>Narrated by Forest Whitaker, Seaweed Stories is a vibrant, global look at the wonders of seaweed, and some of the extraordinary stories and characters whose lives have been entangled by this often overlooked marine plant which may hold answers to some of humanity&rsquo;s biggest challenges. Seaweed Stories includes insights from a Silicon Valley startup creating plastic alternatives from algae, to the Indigenous Shinnecock Kelp Farmers using seaweed to prove their sovereign right to coastal land, to a scientist in South Korea supporting seaweeds&rsquo; sexual reproduction to create new species that can withstand the effects of a changing climate.</p>

<p>Wildres Wood, an Indigenous biologist, explores the mysterious R&iacute;o Pl&aacute;tano.&nbsp;<em>&ndash; Anita Raswant</em>&nbsp;</p>

<p>SIGNS pushes the boundaries of information spaces, advocating for public signage that addresses environmental issues and social justice. It opposes the pervasive collection and sale of personal data and potential infringements on our rights through everyday product use. The film not only critiques the current state of affairs but also encourages us to take action by envisioning new signs that prompt deeper reflection on societal issues and the impacts of carbon-polluting technologies.<br /> <br /> Signs reconnect us to ancient pictographic ways of understanding and transcend language barriers to convey their messages. They can serve as powerful tools for environmental awareness and motivate change. By integrating messages highlighting critical issues, these signs can disrupt the ordinary flow of everyday life, encouraging individuals to reflect critically on their actions and the implications for their health and the environment&#39;s health.</p>

<p>In the heart of Sindh, a young boy rewrites his rain-soaked dreams. A tale of floods, where classrooms become rivers, and lessons flow with resilience. Witness a young soul redefine life&#39;s horizon.<br /> <br /> Embark with us on this journey as we unveil the narrative of a young Kubargoth dreamer. To him, rain is not just water from the sky. Through his eyes, we glimpse a world reshaped by the relentless forces of climate, where each droplet tells a tale of resilience and transformation.</p>

<p>Since the Spill is a documentary that delves into the heart-wrenching stories of individuals residing along the Gulf Coast of Mexico, whose lives have been irrevocably altered by the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010. This environmental disaster not only wreaked havoc on the marine ecosystem but also caused profound disruptions in the lives of millions of people who depend on the Gulf for their livelihoods, culture, and sustenance. The film explores the extensive and enduring impact of the spill, highlighting the stark contrast in the aftermath faced by those affected in the United States versus the residents of Mexico.</p>

<p>New York City used to be the oyster capital of the world. The city&#39;s waterfront has undergone innumerable changes, and there are more on the way. This essay film dives into the often overlooked sixth borough.</p>

<p>There she stands, confidently, like a goddess of technological junk, surrounded by endless mountains of rubbish, plastic, stench and rare earths. An angry appeal to the world to take responsibility for the consequences of capitalism, colonialism and environmental destruction in Africa.</p> <p>For our land and bones. At the end of the world.<br /> Technology and waste,<br /> in our lands, our systems, our bones.<br /> Wandering our spaces, she cannot help but wonder, where is the space for healing?</p>

<p>When participants at a climate conference in the year 2033 can&rsquo;t agree on anything, head negotiator GERTA (not Greta!) snaps and suggests &ldquo;The only thing you could agree on is going back in time and having people THEN fix the problem.&rdquo; The sarcastic outburst is accepted as a rather wonderful idea, only for Gerta to reveal that they actually have access to a time machine.</p>

<p>This is the story about me and the cedar trees. It could have been just a personal experience, but it turned into a message that I would like the whole world to understand. I&rsquo;m 14 years old and I will still be here to see our planet suffer when you may not, so please listen.<br /> <br /> In Morocco, we planned to visit a beautiful cedar forest, but once arrived, all we found were immense dead cedar trees. These cedars had lived there for hundreds of years and could have continued hundreds more, as they can live up to 1500 years. They disappeared forever because of people-made global warming. A result of excessive consumption all over the world. Please, wake up and change, a little bit every day. Think about what you really need and what you can live without, in order to let our planet live.</p>

<p>How do you build a lifeboat for an entire nation? In Tuvalu: Losing Paradise, Channel 4 News grapples with the extinction-level threat faced by 25-year-old Grace Malie, for whom 1.5 degrees isn&rsquo;t just a target, but the difference between life and death for everything that she and her people hold dear. Her Polynesian ancestors navigated the vast Pacific Ocean and settled on nine low-lying islands that have sustained them for upwards of 3,000 years. But today, Tuvalu sits at the epicentre of climatic changes with seas rising one and a half times faster than the rest of the planet. Over the last two years, Channel 4 News UK has been charting a ground-breaking project to work out how to move a nation, its government, culture and people. With just 11,000 inhabitants, if a dignified future cannot be salvaged for them, there is little hope for the billion plus more climate migrants predicted to follow closely behind. Grace&rsquo;s Tuvalu will likely be the first sovereign nation lost to climate change, but it won&rsquo;t be the last. This is THE story of our century, told by one of the climate warriors of the future, voyaging across the world to demand that we listen.</p>

<p>Norfolk, Virginia is sinking. The already insufficient sea wall ends where a public housing project, St. Paul&rsquo;s, begins. St. Paul&rsquo;s housing projects&#39; residents are Black people. Norfolk is home to the world&rsquo;s largest naval base and there is currently no public plan to prevent it from going underwater.<br /> <br /> Instead, the local government, in partnership with federal agencies, is investing in what is labeled a &ldquo;climate resilience&rdquo; plan to tear down public housing and redevelop what is an historic Black community, the St. Paul&rsquo;s district. Underwater Projects unpacks this redevelopment plan from the perspective of community leaders and members, government officials, scientists, and climate, and national security experts.</p>

<p>Valve Turners follows a small group of activists from the Pacific Northwest as they turn the valves and halt the flow of five oil pipelines entering the United States from Canada to spotlight the climate emergency. Facing felony charges, they defend their actions as necessary in light of decades of political inaction and urgent warnings from climate scientists. The film asks: As the climate emergency escalates, at what point should citizens take action into their own hands to protect their families and communities?</p>

<p>(16mm &gt; 35mm, 16 minutes, sound, color, Brazil, USA, UK)<br /> The great voyages to the &quot;New World&quot; were seen as expanding the frontiers of the visible and displacing those of the invisible, therefore, maps from that time render the real and imaginary. The film follows a voyage of the Brazilian Military in search of an imaginary island with the same name as their country. The myth from 1483 Brazil, or Hy-Brazil, is known to exist to the west of Ireland and above the Fortunate Islands. Vision of Paradise is an examination of the capacity of the human imagination and computer simulations to construct environments. Amidst the fine threshold of the real, simulated, and imagined, the film analyzes the contemporary ideas of virtual reality and their ambition to expand the frontiers of the physical world into a &quot;New World&quot;.</p> <p>Screening Formats: 35mm, DCP, ProRes</p>

<p>Three intimate human stories show the complex ways in which climate change-fueled flooding and drought intersects with existing societal, economic, and infrastructure inequalities. Climate scientists, experts, and activists from Nepal provide the necessary context to understand exactly how climate change is wreaking havoc here and what is needed from the developed world so that Nepal can have a secure future as global heating gathers pace. The intertwined narratives along with expert exposition highlight the human cost of climate crisis in Nepal with a sharp focus on the compounding nature and localized injustice of this global crisis.</p>

<p>An ageing activist wages a solitary struggle against the expansion of an oil refinery in his tiny fishing village. All the while the other villagers are infectiously united in their indecisiveness between sustainable change and short-term social security. A simple and charming portrait with a humorous undertone that hits the nail on the head: if we compromise on health risks and environmental pollution, we&rsquo;re not going to make it.</p>

<p>Corals around the world are threatened by rising ocean temperatures that risk bleaching reefs and decimating entire marine ecosystems, but researchers in Hawaii are helping these marine architects beat the heat. With their help, coral reefs may have a better chance to survive&mdash;both now, and in the future.<br /> <br /> WILD HOPE is a series that highlights the conservation changemakers who are sparking new hope for the future of our planet.</p>

<p>Meet Me at the Creek tells a story of interconnectedness and Cherokee values through Jim&rsquo;s lifelong fight to restore Tar Creek, which is officially recognized by the government as &ldquo;irreversibly damaged,&rdquo; a designation Jim refuses to accept.</p>