2013 Films

Coincidentally filmed just before the atomic catastrophe in Japan, Under Control provides an exclusive insight into nuclear power across Germany...

An environmental movement takes root when a new environmental law is passed, and for the first time in China’s history, ordinary citizens have the democratic right to speak out and take part in government decisions...

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

Learn about big oil, civil rights and pollution on a grand scale. Texas has become richer than all but ten of the world’s sovereign nations, but at what human cost?

From the aesthetic influence of her early childhood and her groundbreaking career as a Harvard-trained architect to her emergence as a cutting-edge artist, the broad spectrum of this important artist’s life is traced in this film...

This animated fable tells the story of a boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature while out collecting bottle tops at the beach...

Shown with PLATYPUS IN THE TROPICS

Called “the world’s most bizarre creature,” the platypus is endemic to eastern Australia, living in the tropical rainforests of North Queensland, as well as in the southeastern temperate regions of Australia...

Shown with THE LOST THING

In central Switzerland’s Muota Valley, an old tradition is still alive. In this modern age of satellite pictures and computer-generated predictions, the spry old men who live in the mountains above Schwyz are famous for predicting the weather using the ancient signs of animal behavior, plant growth, winds and clouds...

The astonishing life of Richard Leakey, paleoanthropologist, conservationist, statesman and provocateur, is illuminated as the film investigates four decades of exploration around Kenya’s Lake Turkana, which have given rise to both breakthroughs and controversy in the contentious field of human evolution...

More than half of our food lands in the dump – most of it on the way from the farm to the store before it ever reaches our dining-room table! Agriculture devours huge amounts of energy, water, fertilizers and pesticides, clearcutting the rainforest and generating more than a third of the globe’s greenhouse gases...

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

Follow three meat and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks...