2013 Films

From Diego Luna and Alejandro Fernandez, to Carla Morrison and Chavela Vargas, the film weaves a cinematic tapestry composed of original songs and insights from the most iconic artists and performers of contemporary Mexico...

Botanical illustrator Margaret Mee lived for 36 years in Brazil, where she organized and carried out 15 expeditions to the Amazon rainforest, leaving an important and rare iconographic and artistic legacy...

According to a popular saying in Dakar, Senegal, “You can find anything in the world at Colobane Market”... 

Ciné-Concert: Marseille, The Old Port

Three young people shoot a film celebrating their city, the largest port on the Mediterranean and a muse for filmmakers since the birth of cinema...

Shown with FAITHFUL HEART (COEUR FIDELE).

Based in Berlin and Milan, the media arts group FLATFORM creates time-based works, events and installations under their collective name...

Filmed over the course of a year, Meerkats 3D follows an extraordinary—not to mention adorable —family that stands just 12 inches tall... 

Shown as part of the Rivers Program 

Stories of Mekong citizens upstream and down, from fishermen on the Tonle Sap to activists still fighting against the Pak Mun Dam in Thailand...

Shown with MEKONG THE MOTHER. 

Shown as part of the Rivers Program 

The Mekong River Basin is the lifeline for more than 60 million people in China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam... 

Shown as part of the Rivers Program 

The importance of the Mekong to the inhabitants of the river basin is demonstrated as fishermen, boat captains and other ordinary people tell of their livelihoods, their beliefs and their love for the river...

Shown with MEKONG. 

Follow the quest of professional surfer Dave “Rasta” Rastovich and his friends to help protect the ocean and its inhabitants... 

According to Bajo tribal folklore, a ritual mirror can display an image of a missing fisherman who will return from the sea... 

As Einstein warned: "If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would have no more than four years left to live"... 

Nature’s powerful role in children’s health and development is explored through the experience of toddlers, children in middle childhood and adolescents... 

A modern-day story of love, loss and resilience, the film follows Monique Verdin’s quest to find a place in her Native American community, the Houma Nation... 

In a remote cabin in the Patagonian Andes, Payaguala, an elderly native Tehuelche gaucho, lives a solitary and contented life... 

Shown as part of the Rivers Program 

Retired Marine Colonel Eric Hastings remembers flight missions “high above the death and destruction” in Vietnam...

From currency to candy, chocolate reflects a rich history of sacred ritual, endorphin highs, hip anti-oxidants, exotic sensuality, high quality luxury and enslaved children...

Lucien and Regina are a husband-and-wife team of foragers who make their living gathering wild mushrooms in the woodlands of New Jersey and selling them to New York City restaurants... 

“Jonathan Bird's Blue World” is an award-winning, educational, family-oriented television series hosted by marine naturalist and underwater photographer Jonathan Bird...

Oceans at Risk

Tainted waters, dying reefs and failing fisheries, the myth of the boundless ocean is no more...

Shown with THE LAST OCEAN and PLANET OCEAN.

A selection of short films that explore some of the most critical, and timely, topics related to one of the planet's most valuable, yet under-appreciated, resources: our oceans...

Film clips and Panel Discussion moderated by Chris Palmer, Director, Center for Environmental Filmmaking, American University...

Selection from Matsalu Nature Film Festival, Estonia

Harri has been studying moose and their inner natures for more than 30 years...

Shown with A JOURNEY TO THE SOURCE OF THE LENA and THE RETURN OF THE MUSK OX. 

Ducks are ancient creatures. True originals, they practice habitual lifestyles that have been essential to their evolutionary success for millions of years...

Shown with A SEA TURTLE STORY, SONG OF THE SPINDLE, and BIRDERS: THE CENTRAL PARK EFFECT.

Combining documentary and dramatic narrative techniques, Otter 501 chronicles the remarkable true story of an orphaned baby otter... 

As energy exploration, excavation and export remain Canada’s economic backbone, contradictions and debates abound on the risks and rewards of development... 

The Alps are an ancient region of natural beauty that is changing as a result of global warming... 

Oceans at Risk

Can a film change the way people look at the ocean? Can we explain the greatest natural mystery of our planet...

Shown with THE LAST OCEAN and OCEAN FRONTIERS: THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA IN OCEAN STEWARDSHIP. 

Endangered Rivers

Shown as part of the Rivers Program

Each of us is connected to rivers in our everyday lives. Most of the six million people living in the Potomac River watershed do not realize that their drinking water comes from the Potomac... 

Shown with CHATTAHOOCHEE: FROM WATER WAR TO WATER VISION.