Green Festival of San Francisco 2024

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The Walking Forest
The Walking Forest documentary tells the story of Bosk, an extraordinary project that brought a thousand trees into Leeuwarden, forever changing the lives of its citizens. For 100 days, the city transformed into a magical moving forest, and the residents witnessed the beauty and power of nature in their own backyard. It took a lot of cooperation from many people to realise such an impossible project. This film explores the impact this unexpected oasis had on people’s lives and how collective effort can reinvigorate a city by taking steps towards a more sustainable world.
Lost Gloves
Two friends contemplate the cosmic significance of their long running exchange of photos of lost gloves.
The Last Skiers
A precious statement on the fragility of nature, told by a generation of Italian skiers who have seen the slopes they learned to ski on turn into arid, yellow hills. Many European nations saw their warmest January day ever, with temperatures topping 20°C in some areas of northern Italy. According to researchers, the amount of snowfall in the Alps has decreased by more than 53% as of 2023. These projections put the future of ski resorts located at low and medium altitudes, as well as those without artificial snow systems, in greater danger. This documentary delves into the topic through the stories of a generation that experienced locations in Italy where global warming occurred decades ago. The protagonists skied in the Como province in the 1990s for the last time before the ski resorts were eventually closed forever, together with the other 249 Italian ski resorts that were abandoned in recent years because of the climate crisis.
Last of the Monarchs
Giant sequoias are some of the largest, longest-lived, and most iconic trees on Earth. Their breathtaking stature directly inspired the creation of the National Park Service and draws millions each year to the groves dotting California's Sierra Nevada mountains. Sequoias are highly adapted to fire, depending on frequent, low-intensity burns to clear the forest floor and create patches of exposed soil for their seeds to germinate and grow. Since the early 1900s however, a unilateral policy of fire suppression has led to unprecedented amounts of dead vegetation piling up unabated in our forests, ready for a spark to send it all up in flames. In 2020-21, fires raged through Sequoia National Park and Monument, engulfing grove after grove of sequoias that had not seen fire in over a century. Nearly 20% of the entire giant sequoia population was lost in just two years. The consequences of past mismanagement combined with the inexorable effects of climate change present an imminent existential threat to this incredible species once thought to be impervious to all onslaughts save old age. In this short documentary film, the people that have dedicated their work to sequoias describe the risks and obstacles they face, their hopes, and what we need to do to protect these awe-inspiring trees for future generations.
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Good Night
Delve into the world of Chino Moro, an astrophotographer living with his family in the heart of the Maya jungle whose deep passion for the cosmos connects distant stars to our fleeting human existence. Discover the profound bond of fatherhood, the art of crafting a telescope, and the mesmerizing beauty of celestial photography, all set against the backdrop of modern self-sufficiency and homesteading. Join Chino as he gazes into the universe and reflects on the essence of a meaningful life.
The Shadow of the Palm Trees
Like a postcard, the image of palm trees in Mexico City is the symbol of a withered dream. The death of more than 75% of the capital's palm trees is not circumstantial. Urban landscaping was seduced throughout the world by that tropical Californian paradise, which evoked sun, freedom and a comfortable life; we import a utopia, building appearances and selling status. The dead palm trees (Phoenix canariensis) of our city, victims of globalization, remind us of the failure of a policy of appearances. This short documentary explores the relationship between man and nature in large cities and provides a space that gives voice to the trees that surround us that, with their destruction, ask us, in a last breath, to tell their story to rethink our existence and the spaces we inhabit.
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The Walking Forest documentary tells the story of Bosk, an extraordinary project that brought a thousand trees into Leeuwarden, forever changing the lives of its citizens. For 100 days, the city transformed into a magical moving forest, and the residents witnessed the beauty and power of nature in their own backyard. It took a lot of cooperation from many people to realise such an impossible project. This film explores the impact this unexpected oasis had on people’s lives and how collective effort can reinvigorate a city by taking steps towards a more sustainable world.

  • Runtime
    25 minutes
  • Country
    Netherlands
  • Director
    Rose Casella, Floris Leeuwenberg