Exploring Nature - Nov 12 to Nov 18
Climate change is threatening the Magdalen Islands. Through the voices of young residents, the filmmakers sound the alarm about the devastation that’s already happening.
À PERTE DE VUE
- Marie-Chloé Racine, Sarah Salem
- 2020
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 35 min
Exploring Nature - Nov 12 to Nov 18
A Japanese filmmaker explores the cenotes of Yucatán, resulting in an utterly unique audio-visual journey that reconceives the ecological documentary.
Exploring Nature - Nov 12 to Nov 18
Welcome to dystopia: the end of the world turned amusement park. A brutally effective broadside that roasts a collapsing society’s obsession with spectacle.
ICEMELTLAND PARK
- Liliana Colombo
- 2020
- United Kingdom, Italy
- s.t. English
- 40 min
Exploring Nature - Nov 12 to Nov 18
Observing the ritual production of coca powder in the Amazonian community of Muina-Muruí, this short film lets us glimpse a different community-nature relationship.
JIÍBIE
- Laura Huertas Millán
- 2019
- Colombia, France
- s.t. French
- 25 min
Exploring Nature - Nov 12 to Nov 18
A breathtaking visual journey into the world of lichens – an experience at once aesthetic and meditative, straddling the border between science and philosophy.
Exploring Nature - Nov 12 to Nov 18
The first feature by Indigenous experimental director Sky Hopinka is a superb film/poem inspired by the Chinookian origin of death myth, and a meditation on the importance of language and the beliefs it contains.
MAɬNI – TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE
- Sky Hopinka
- 2020
- United States
- s.t. English
- 80 min
Exploring Nature - Nov 12 to Nov 18
On the high plains of Argentina, a llama rancher must deal with a marauding puma. A dreamlike, mystical, image-rich tale about the human-environment relationship.
PIEDRA SOLA
- Alejandro Telémaco Tarraf
- 2020
- Argentina, Mexico, Qatar, United Kingdom
- s.t. English
- 72 min
Exploring Nature - Nov 12 to Nov 18
A sensory film that follows three stray dogs through Istanbul, the better to reach humanity at the margins, especially young Syrian refugees.
Exploring Nature - Nov 12 to Nov 18
A global, polyphonic mosaic of breathtaking images. We meet indigenous peoples and activists experiencing and fighting climate change.
THE MAGNITUDE OF ALL THINGS
- Jennifer Abbott
- 2020
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 85 min
Exploring Nature - Nov 12 to Nov 18
In this sensory and supernatural exploration of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, Canadian artist Joshua Bonnetta examines the mysterious intersection of landscape and oral tradition.
THE TWO SIGHTS
- Joshua Bonnetta
- 2020
- Canada, United Kingdom
- s.t. English
- 87 min
Exploring Nature - Nov 12 to Nov 18
A visual and spiritual journey aboard the icebreaker Amundsen to explore the St. Lawrence River and its teeming life in winter.
UN FLEUVE L'HIVER
- Félix Lamarche
- 2020
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 28 min