Journeys through various man-made climate disasters, and a profile of the communities at the center who are left to live with it. Accessibility: Closed captions available

Ardida is an experimental animation that combines 2D, 3D and rotoscopy from a satiric lens to critique neocolonialism, gender violence and the extractivist structure within capitalism from an antiracist perspective.

Ardida

A young girl growing up in the Indigenous-held forests of central Borneo follows ancient connections to earn the gift of a story, her people’s 1973 fight to preserve their lands amid rampant deforestation.

Indai Apai Darah (Mother, Father, Blood)

Migration season is when Annette Prince and the other Chicago Collision Bird Monitors are the busiest, as Mother Nature literally slams into the urban environment. Annette assembles volunteers as they arrive downtown before sunrise, looking for birds that have flown into skyscrapers, before heading to their day jobs. The birds that survive are sent away for a stay at the Willowbrook Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Broken Flight introduces us to the volunteers, scientists and veterinarians who rescue, study and catalog these amazing avian species.

Broken Flight

And Still, It Remains is a meditation on the afterlife of French nuclear toxicity in Algeria through a community shaped but not circumscribed by its history. In Mertoutek, a village nestled in the Hoggar Mountains of Algeria’s Southern Sahara, we spend time with the Escamaran community as they narrate their accounts and understanding of time, toxic colonialism and how to survive the end of your world. Summoning the landscape as a witness, the film also affords the residents some distance from colonial forms of visual capture and challenges visibility as the currency for political redress.

And still, it remains

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