In Memory of the Land and People

Glop

2020

A young filmmaker takes a walk

Motherland Memories

2022

Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that interweave her past and present as a wife, mother, healer and indigenous land defender in two neighboring villages. Her multi-layered stories are juxtaposed with visual records of everyday life in the two villages, where people’s living space is still increasingly threatened by a giant pulp expansion.

Beavers

1988 · ★ 7.5

A story about several beaver families in their wild surroundings. The interesting process of building a dam can be watched as well as the dangers arising from hungry bears and other influences on the new-built home.

How Ikea Plunders the Planet

2024 · ★ 7.2

Investigative journalists working for Disclose spent over a year investigating the production chain of the furniture giant which generated a 44.6 billion euros revenue in 2022 and attracts over 5 billion visitors to its stores and website every year. From the boreal forests of Sweden to Brazilian plantations and New Zealand coastlines, they uncovered how IKEA intensively exploits wood around the world, fuels the illegal trafficking of this resource and threatens the last precious European forests. Long overlooked, intensive logging is now sparking outrage and anger among citizens in Poland and the Baltic countries, who are increasingly concerned about the fate of their countries' public forest domains and biodiversity loss. In Romania, where IKEA owns 50,000 hectares of forests, activists are risking their lives mobilizing against the timber mafia. This film tells the expansion of a discreet forest predator, grappling with the limits of the planet's resources.

The Cracking of Glen Canyon Damn

1982

The birth of the radical environmental movement is captured in this short, poetic film on the legendary direct action at Glen Canyon Dam in March of 1981. The film contains one of the only interviews ever given by the late, great author Edward Abbey along with his classic speech from the back of a pick-up truck.

Umnak - Aleutian Islands

2021

Explorers and amateur directors Mariana Ianovska and Viktor Posnov embark on a 40 day long trip across Umnak Island.

Confessions of a CEO: My Life in an Out-of-Balance World

2025

A bare-knuckled critique of corporate America told through the powerful true story of a toxic CEO who evolves from a profits-over-people, philandering executive to an unorthodox leader, populist messenger, and mentor to American influencers. It’s a story of growth, redemption and the impact of self-awareness on leadership and life.

Guardian of the river

★ 8

This documentary details the indigenous environmental movement in Honduras in 2016 specifically in the aftermath of prominent activist Berta Cáceres' assassination at the hands of a hired hitman. The documentary shows the effects of international and domestic dam development on the local landscape and the organized political resistance efforts.

France 2100, le pourquoi du comment

2026 · ★ 7.8

No synopsis available.

Green Death

The narrative Ali Hussein, takes us on an environmental journey through Nasiriyah, revealing the tragedies and struggles faced by people, animals, and plants.

Spokespeople

2020 · ★ 10

For Los Angeles natives living in the early 1900s, bicycles and streetcars shared the road as our primary modes of transportation. But the arrival of the freeway effectively wiped them out. Today, a collective of cycling communities fight for protected bike lanes and road safety, determined to bring a new era of mobility justice to the city.

O Nó - Ato humano deliberado

2014

A historical record of the introduction of the witch's broom disease, caused by the fungus Moniliophthora perniciosa, in the cocoa plantations of Bahia.