Green Film Festival of San Francisco 2026

Water and Oceans

Available in 23d 05h 33m 03s
Available October 15, 2026 7:00 AM UTC
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5 films in package
Abalone Stories: Loss, Connection, Renewal
For those who feel a deep connection to the ocean from sport divers to Native cultural traditions, the loss of red abalone is deeply felt. As ecosystems change, so do the relationships people have carried for generations.
Arubara
How best to preserve the values inherited from generations, when nature and time continue to change? Arubara is a village where life has long moved to the rhythm of the tides. Facing dwindling fish populations and with a vision to restore marine ecosystem diversity, the community decides to close the fishing grounds for several months despite depending on it for their livelihood. Will the gamble pay off?
Hello Whale
“Hello Whale” delves into southeast Alaska’s remote ocean ecosystems and threatened humpback whale community through the artistic lens of Michele Oka Doner. This ecopoetic documentary explores the relationships between vulnerable wildlife and conservation researchers fighting to protect them, using creative science-driven storytelling to inspire this vital waterscape’s safeguarding.
Power of The People
Yup’ik Indigenous leader Alannah Acaq Hurley led a campaign that stopped the proposed Pebble Mine megaproject in Alaska’s Bristol Bay. Alannah and a broad-based coalition won a historic EPA veto of the copper mining project. The victory safeguards Bristol Bay and its greater watershed—encompassing 25 million acres of wilderness, rivers, and wetlands and home to the largest wild salmon run in the world—from construction of what would have been North America’s largest open-pit mine.
Tides
Set on a remote Maine island where time is measured by tides, this luminous 16mm meditation follows lobstermen and kelp harvesters through wordless, weather-worn routines, revealing the quiet inheritances and elemental rhythms that bind a place to its people. A stark, immersive portrait of work, landscape, and the edges where endurance becomes poetry.
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FILMS IN THIS PROGRAM INCLUDE:


Abalone Stories: Loss, Connection, Renewal

Arubara

Hello Whale

Power of The People

Tides


Yup’ik Indigenous leader Alannah Acaq Hurley led a campaign that stopped the proposed Pebble Mine megaproject in Alaska’s Bristol Bay. Alannah and a broad-based coalition won a historic EPA veto of the copper mining project. The victory safeguards Bristol Bay and its greater watershed—encompassing 25 million acres of wilderness, rivers, and wetlands and home to the largest wild salmon run in the world—from construction of what would have been North America’s largest open-pit mine.


For her epic victory, Alannah received the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize for North America.


Filmmaker expected to attend.

  • Year
    2026
  • Runtime
    10 minutes
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Will Parrinello
  • Screenwriter
    Sarah Kass
  • Producer
    Will Parrinello
  • Executive Producer
    Goldman Environmental Prize
  • Cast
    Peter Coyote
  • Cinematographer
    Andrew Black
  • Editor
    Quinn Costello
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