Peng Yu Sai is an investigative documentary that dives into the illegal trade in Manta Rays from India’s oceans. Through this documentary, wildlife presenter Malaika Vaz follows the illegal trade pipeline from fishing vessels in the Indian Ocean, to the Indo-Myanmar border and finally undercover in the wildlife trafficking hubs of Hong Kong and Guangzhou, in China. Along the way - she meets with fishermen, middle men, traffickers, armed forces personnel and wildlife trade kingpins, as she tries to understand what it will take to protect these magnificent ocean giants.

Peng Yu Sai

An investigative documentary unraveling the trade in Manta Rays across southeast Asia.

In a small french village of the Côte-des-Bar, the winemaker Bertrand Gautherot makes a very special Champaign. For the past twenty years, it has enjoyed international recognition, thanks to a range of cuvées where the famous sparkling wine recovers its magnificence. Over the seasons, the winemaker tells us how Biodynamics helps him reveal the soul of his terroir, under the watchful eye of his daughter, recently arrived on the estate, and for whom the precepts of Rudolf Steiner are still very abstract .

Where Champagne Meets the Moon

One year with a winemaker in Champaign using strange techniques in his wineyards.

50 years ago, a unique afforestation project took root on an eroded desert plateau in Tamil Nadu, South India, when people from diverse countries came together to establish the international experimental township of Auroville.Initially driven by the necessity to make the harsh conditions more liveable, the idealism of some early residents lead them to develop expertise in cultivating the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest, a rare forest type native to the coastal belt of Tamil Nadu.Today, the lush Auroville forest is an outstanding example of eco-restoration that recreates and preserves a type of tropical forest that is on the verge of extinction.Ever Slow Green tells the story of Auroville’s 50-years-young forest through some of the diverse characters who have dedicated their lives to bringing it to fruition.

Ever Slow Green - Re-afforestation in Auroville, South India

Ever Slow Green tells the story of a 50-years-young tropical forest that evolved in Auroville, South India, through some of the diverse people who dedicate their lives to bringing it to fruition.

A poetic exploration of Dharwad, a city split between two narratives of identity: One that hails the city as the cultural capital and home to literary and musical greats of Karnataka, while the other that calls for a complete transformation of the city into an industrial, 'smart' city. Located as the cusp of western ghats and the arid 'bayalu' or North Karnataka, the city's representation is changing from the tune of culture and nature, to a performance to attain the idea of industry. Can a city be so separate from its reality that it is failing to understand its own changing, splitting character? Does the city suffer, feel happy, and reflect on melancholy? This film is a wondering about what nature means in a man-made world. It is an attempt to reconnect those relationships, and bring out the question: Are our memories and roots connected to our homes and towns in more ways than we know?

Door/Home

A poetic exploration of the city of Dharwad, split between being a rich cultural capital and an industrial, smart city.

From inside his yurt deep within the heart of the Taiga, Bayandalai ‒an elder of the Dukhas tribe‒ muses about the significance of life and death in the largest forest on Earth. He is the last of the great reindeer herders of the Taiga.

Bayandalai - Lord of the Taiga

Bayandalai, last of the great reindeer herders of the Taiga, talks to us about life.

The Egyptian geese marches through the ages: From the bird´s perspective, a centuries-long settlement history is told. While the water level in the pond continues to fall, the inhabitants have the water up the neck. In the end, nothing stays as it was, only the goose suspects nothing bad.

God has already gone ahead (Gott ist schon weg)

From the duck's bird's-eye view a centuries-old settlement history is described, where at the end no (Lego) brick remains on the other ...

WINNER : Bhoomi Award for Best Indian Short With the planet’s human population growing and natural habitats shrinking, the ability of wild animals and people to share space is going to be one of the world’s biggest conservation challenges. But can large animals like elephants and people really live together? The long-term survival of elephants in India hinges on this question, and a leading conservationist named Ananda Kumar is on a mission to prove that they can. For the last sixteen years, he has been pioneering a radically different approach to conservation, using accessible, low-cost technology to minimise accidental deaths and damage to crops and property. Perhaps even more effective than the technology is his focus on involving local communities and government agencies in the conservation process. He believes this engagement can increase people’s tolerance of elephants, giving both species a much better chance to co-exist. According to Dr. Kumar, the dominant conservation theories developed in the West, where wild animals have largely been wiped out, must be adapted for countries like India where 300 million people still live in close proximity to wildlife. Increased contact with wildlife has led to the death of more than 1500 people, the vast majority of them killed by elephants, since April 2014. Retaliatory attacks on these animals have followed, threatening the already precarious ecological balance. The focus on coexistence as a solution is a major departure from the conventional conservation wisdom that wild animals and people are inherently incompatible, and that fenced-off, protected areas are needed for the animals to survive. In India, with its dense human population, only 5% of the land area is protected, covering barely a fifth of the elephant’s actual range. 65% of India’s elephants live in human-intensive landscapes, and it is here that Dr. Kumar has focused his work. Over the past decade, he successfully tested his text-message and light-based based early-warning systems in the tea highlands of the Valparai region of Tamil Nadu, turning a conflict hot-spot into one that has witnessed zero human deaths over the last three years. But was it a fluke, or successful only because of Valparai’s relatively small human and elephant populations? To see if his methods have a pan-India relevance, Dr. Kumar is now launching an ambitious new program in Hassan, a densely populated and fraught landscape which has been marked as an ‘elephant removal zone’ due to high levels of human-elephant conflict. Despite brutal elephant capture and relocation drives, the elephants keep returning to Hassan, signalling the need for a different approach. For the past few months, Dr. Kumar has been building partnerships with local government agencies and communities in Hassan to get support for his vision and methods. Unlike Valparai, he’s dealing with an irate human population that sees the elephants as encroachers and wants them removed at any costs. Will he succeed in changing their attitudes, and give the elephants of Hassan a chance to survive?

Elephants In My Backyard

WINNER : Bhoomi Award for Best Indian Short | Can elephants and humans live together? With spaces for elephants shrinking and conflict with humans rising, an Indian conservationist tries to develop a strategy for co-existence.

The film, set in a post-apocalyptic future, is a playful story about the caretaker of an archive and collection of seeds. While anticipating ‘earthly revival’, the caretaker discovers and attempts to recreate the Mannge Thapnee ritual from Goa, resulting in the germination of dormant seeds. The film uses a combination of live-action and stop-motion, giving more agency to the nonhuman and inanimate perspectives in an ecological query.

Mannge Thapnee, A Prayer for the Crocodile

Imagining a future without the Mannge Thapnee ritual.

Due to water scarcity, girls in the Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran must travel far from their village to get water. Most of the watering holes are inhabited by a type of Iranian crocodile called Gando. Gando is the story of Hawa, a 9 year old girl who lost part of her arm to a Gando while fetching water. Nevertheless, she and others of this province honor the Gandos. They believe when there is a Gando, there is Water.

Gando

Due to water scarcity, girls in the Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran must travel far from their village to get water. Most of the watering holes are inhabited by a type of Iranian crocodile called Gando. Gando is the story of Hawa, a 9 year old girl who lost part of her arm to a Gando while fetching water. Nevertheless, she and others of this province honor the Gandos. They believe when there is a Gando, there is Water.

Seventy percent of world agricultural land is already used for meat production. With every increasing consumer demand, can we produce sufficient animal protein in the future? The knowledge on managing insects is often held by traditional forest dwellers and forest-dependent people (Durst and Shono, 2010). With insects increasingly being explored as an important source of protein to substitute red meat, this film explores the role of the Giant Hornet, being reared for consumption in the hills of Nagaland in Northeast India.

Rearing Giants

This film explores the role of the Giant Hornet, being reared for consumption in the hills of Nagaland in Northeast India.

The Green Escapade

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