There are 8 clams in the city water pump. The lives of millions of people depend on them. In the case of a contamination in the water supply, the clams will close and automatically shut off the water to the city. The film is a philosophical essay on the dependence of people on nature, and the world around them.

Fat Kathy

The film is a philosophical treatise on the dependence of people on nature, and the world around them.

One day before the Chilean National Referendum gives each voter the possibility to approve or reject the drafting of a New Constitution, Oscar and Marcelo, two brothers with opposite views, will share a trip along the desert coast of the country. Suspicious of Marcelo’s reckless involvement in the protests against the local coal plants, Oscar is constantly confronting his brother’s position as an environmentalist. On the way, the emotional complexity of their relationship will trigger a revelation that will end up influencing both - their future and that of an entire nation.

Mar & Cielo

Two brothers share an emotional journey through the desert coast of Chile, revealing the complexity of their relationship and the climate crisis that surrounds them.

Climate change seems like a problem of a far distant future. We just go on with business as usual. But climate change, just like the loss of biodiversity and the current pandemic, is a consequence of how we treat nature. Corona is a wake-up call that has disrupted all of our lives. All attention goes towards solving the current problem: controlling the SARS-CoV-2 virus. But prevention is better than cure. To do this, we have to look at how infectious diseases emerge and spread.

A Viral Spiral

World-renowned artist Steve Cutts created an animated film for the Nicolaas G. Pierson Foundation, in which he not only visualizes the factors that cause pandemics, but also points at the urgent measures that are needed to reduce the risk of future pandemics.

In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.

Sad Beauty

When mankind causes its own demise, what could bring consolation?

Battling subzero temperatures and forty-foot seas, a team of scientists embark on a perilous winter expedition into the darkest regions of the Arctic. Their mission: to understand how trace amounts of light may be radically altering the mysterious world of the polar night. What they discover has implications for the global climate and the future of the Arctic.

Into the Dark

The first mountain guide from her village in northern Nepal, 34-year-old Durga Rawal was always on the lookout for a path to independence. While the girls around her were left to grow up working on family farms and in their homes, Rawal pursued another direction—changing not only the societal and familial expectations of herself, but for future generations. "DURGA: Forging a New Trail" is an intimate story of what female empowerment and gender equality looks like on the ground, and what an independent path just might lead to.

DURGA: Forging a New Trail

In northern Nepal, a young woman pursues a path historically and culturally uncommon for girls and women.

Mutinda was on Kenya’s most wanted list in the 80s and 90s. He was single handedly decimating the wildlife population in the Amboseli region, and Kenya Wildlife Service had a warrant out for his capture, dead or alive. His wife told him she was leaving him if he couldn’t find another job because she was scared he would be killed, and she couldn’t stick around to watch any longer. But tracking and hunting was all Mutinda knew. His father was a poacher and had taught him well. Mutinda had a family to provide for, and felt that poaching was his only option for work. 18 years ago, he was presented with another option that would allow him to use his tracking skills for good.

The Tracker

Mutinda was single handedly decimating the wildlife population in Kenya, until he was presented with another option that would allow him to use his tracking skills for good.

Two men squat on their beds, still half asleep. Entering by way of a crack in the door, the wind blows through their meagre dwelling. After a while, the young man hands the older one a pill, adding it is the last. It is in tersely concise tableaus such as this, captured in enchanting black and white, that the story unfolds of an everyday catastrophe taking place on the Somali coast. While the son takes care of his dying father, the surrounding countryside grows empty. Neighbors are in the process of moving out as the young man delivers a load of sand to a long since abandoned construction site. Only its owner remains, hanging on to a prayer chain, his last mainstay.&nbsp; It has been over the course of several decades that Europeans, above all the former colonial power Italy – have been dumping illegal toxic garbage in the ocean at the Horn of Africa, allegedly in exchange for arms shipments to local warring parties. Since the 2004 earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated the region, the Somali coastal area is contaminated. How does one show such a "slow" catastrophe, with causes and effects that stretch over the course of several human lifetimes?&nbsp;Life on the Horn&nbsp;tells it elliptically, near wordlessly, using the bare minimum, finding precise and highly sensitive images to register this chronic violence – in gazes, gestures, landscapes.&nbsp; Director Mo Harawe was born in Mogadishu&nbsp;and has been living in Austria since 2009. He depicts an environment that virtually engraves itself on the bodies of its residents, whether as shortness of breath or an all-pervasive sense of abandonment.&nbsp;Life on the Horn&nbsp;is political narrative cinema in the form of grieving: With the barest of means the film succeeds in making the incomprehensible comprehensible.&nbsp; (Nikolaus Perneczky)Translation: Eve Heller

Life on the Horn

Life on the Horn is political narrative cinema in the form of grieving: With the barest of means the film succeeds in making the incomprehensible comprehensible.

"Alles hat Grenzen, NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT" is an environmental musical, in which nature acts and speaks in a diversity of voices. Surfacing evocatively from micro and macrocosmic layers, she resonates with water as the source of life and resounds as an exploited resource. She echoes from the trenches of an inverted world and speaks out as a human being. Reverberating through eco-cultural depths; images, sounds and associations push to light, giving shape to a vision of humanity in tune with nature.

Alles hat Grenzen NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT

"Alles hat Grenzen, NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT" is an environmental musical, in which nature acts and speaks in a diversity of voices.

In the Solomon Islands, communities have maintained a deep spiritual connection to nature, and in particular, to the sacred, historic, and biologically unique forest of the mountainous regions. Although a growing colonial and missionary presence in the early 1900s prompted many villages to leave the protections of the interior forests and resettle along the coasts, ties to the high 'elevated forests' – or 'Sky Islands' – persisted. Visitors to the Sky Islands marvel at its magic and mystery. These rugged mountainous spaces are the head and heart, the pulse of the island. It’s a place where rhythm, grace and mystery remain, breathing life and revitalisation back into it's people and wildlife. The Sky Islands are inextricably linked with the welfare of indigenous peoples. The forests and rivers provide everything needed to sustain oneself; materials to build traditional homes; bamboo to craft musical instruments, and so on. Tuned by adjusting the bamboo lengths, these musical instruments produce melodic harmonies that are characteristic of traditional Solomon Islands music. The allure of the Sky Islands is challenged only by the dread of losing these special areas, as deforestation rises in the Solomon Islands (due to expanding villages, agricultural pursuits, and industrial logging). Sky Aelans is a film rooted in the necessity of protecting the Sky Islands. This short film celebrates the faces and spaces within these forests in order to reinforce that these connections, both biological and spiritual, should hold strong for generations to come.

Sky Aelans

Indigenous communities from the Solomon Islands reflect upon the sacred connection they hold with the high mountain forests, ‘Sky Aelans’, that are at risk of being lost to logging.

In the mountains of northern Kenya, a Samburu community is doing something that has never been done before: building a sanctuary for orphaned elephants to rehabilitate them back to the wild. The project is not just changing attitudes about elephants, it is changing attitudes about women too! The secret to the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary's success is the special bond between a group of women keepers and one special elephant named Shaba.

Shaba

Shaba is about the relationships between the first women elephant keepers of Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in northern Kenya, with one special elephant named Shaba.

In Jenjarom, a small palm plantation town approximately 50 kilometers outside of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the smell of burnt plastic crept across the town every night entering the homes of residents, stirring them awake. After months of sleepless nights, a few local residents decided to investigate the source of the smell, forming the Environmental Protection Agency of Kuala Langat. The documentary follows the two activists during a night drive as they fight against the tide of plastic waste being sent to Malaysia from overseas.

They Keep Quiet So We Make Noise

The documentary short They Keep Quiet So We Make Noise, follows two activists in the Enviro Protection Agency of Kuala Langat during a night drive as they fight against the tide of plastic waste being sent to Malaysia from overseas.

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