Projects in genres: Climate / Environment

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A group of ordinary people stop playing by the rules, embracing civil disobedience and sounding the alarm for climate breakdown. They are rebellious and they are flawed revealing the human drama at the heart of social change. Official Selection IDFA 2021 - Frontlight - World premiere

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Delving into our historical, societal and scientific relationship with psychedelic substances, THE GOOD DRUG explores the new discoveries being made about the historical uses of psychedelics and the modern renaissance of clinical research for their therapeutic properties for a host of mental health problems.

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When a researcher uncovers the relations between capitalism and algae, algae and the Earth, the Earth and humans, they begin to understand the origins of our current climate crisis.

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Many Ghanaians are aware of this night-biter living amongst them, yet they still choose to ignore the danger. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2022

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In 2051, a charismatic but lonely mechanic invites us into his garage and talks us through the ups and downs of the past 30 years. It didn't go the way you would have expected.

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A SPELL FOR WORNINGTON GREEN was shot on Wornington Green Estate in North Kensington and told from the perspective of estate resident, Natasha Langridge. It follows the hatching and flight of pigeons and the subsequent community protest to prevent the felling of 35 trees as a consequence of urban regeneration.

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Set in a familiar near-future, a young couple with Down’s syndrome must overcome prejudice and danger, in order to try and save the AI baby they want to adopt. The film exposes the disposability of disability.

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Weeds aren't just weeds. They're like friends. During the first Covid-19 wave, plants and flowers are allowed to grow wild. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2021 - Shortcuts World premiere Official Selection Dinard Festival of British Film 2021 Official Selection Cork International Film Festival 2021 - International Shorts Official Selection Thomas Edison Film Festival 2022 Official Selection Aspen Shortsfest 2022

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CREATURE is an intense, visceral and disturbing film directed by Academy Award winner Asif Kapadia (AMY) in a ground breaking, genre busting collaboration with Lawrence Olivier Award winning choreographer Akram Khan. In a dilapidated former Arctic research station, the Creature has been unknowingly enlisted by a military brigade into a bold new experimental programme. He is being tested and experimented on by a zealous Doctor, overseen by the sensitive Captain, for his mental and physical ability to adapt to extreme cold, isolation and homesickness; all vital qualities in mankind’s proposed colonisation of the ‘final frontiers’ on earth and beyond. When Creature meets and falls in love with Marie, a cleaner who shows him kindness and compassion, he sees a glimmer of hope. Together they dream of escape. But the remorseless Army is led by the arrogant, violent Major who becomes obsessed with Marie and offers her passage from the doomed planet. As Marie finds herself caught between the two men, Creature begins to lose his grasp on reality with tragic consequences. CREATURE is a beautiful, tragic tale of an outsider’s search for belonging, the insatiable desires of the powerful and the enduring hope found in human connection and compassion.

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A poignant and challenging archive documentary that looks for the roots of the climate crisis in post-war history. Are we heading into new territory, or could we be caught in a cycle of familiar promises? Is climate change the inevitable consequence of our quest for energy and growth? Where does culpability lie? Living Proof searches for the roots of the crisis in our recent history. Archive footage from Scotland's national archive portrays a country shaped by the demands of modernity while an eclectic soundtrack amplifies the voices of the past in powerful and unsettling ways.

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As the sun sets on the banks of the River Severn on the outskirts of an impoverished city in the UK, a group of men gather in a race to catch a vanishing creature, the elusive elver. Official Selection Sheffield Doc Fest 2021 - UK Competition - World premiere

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African fashion model Alexandra Cartier meets Jorge Luis Borges in a visionary experience. What does the famous Argentine modernist writer have to say about our contemporary ecological and pandemic problems Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2021