2013 Films

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

Embark on a journey from our evolutionary past and the origins of architecture to the world’s most celebrated buildings in a search for the architecture of life. The film showcases buildings that connect people and nature...

Close to the Russian border, Finland is still home to rare animals: bears, wolves, lynx and wolverines roam the swampland, the Siberian Flying squirrel lives in old woodpecker nest holes. This film shows animal behavior from various species that has never been filmed before...

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

Examining the aftermath of the catastrophic industrial disaster, the massive leakage of poison gas from a Union Carbide pesticide factory in the central Indian city of Bhopal...

Yacouba Sawadogo, an illiterate African peasant farmer, has transformed the lives of thousands of people across the Sahel, a bleak land between the Sahara desert and the wet forest of tropical Africa...

Films shown include HAS FIRESTONE LIBERIA GONE FAR ENOUGH IN WORKPLACE REFORMS?, INDONESIA'S PALM OIL DILEMMA and BHOPALI

Examines the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders and thinkers...

In the small Czech village of Nošovice – as the locals put it – a UFO has landed in the form of a kilometer-long factory: a Korean Hyundai automobile plant...

Preservationist, naturalist, author, explorer, activist, scientist and farmer John Muir was all these things and more. Nearly a century after his death, this Scottish American is remembered and revered as the father of the environmental movement and the founder of the Sierra Club...

Panel Discussion moderated by Chris Palmer, Director, Center for Environmental Filmmaking, American University

How do we produce films that make a difference? This session, illustrated with clips of inspiring films, explores ways we can turn films into action, at both the policy and personal levels. Our panelists consider the challenges of producing films that have a palpable and measurable impact on their audience...

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

Aerosol sprays used to be prevalent in daily life, as shown in this short film...

Shown with SHATTERED SKY

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

Like with today’s CO2 emissions, an invisible compound was threatening the Earth’s life-support systems, but a solution seemed beyond reach. Eerily reminiscent of today’s energy and climate crisis, Shattered Sky tells the story of how America led the world in solving the biggest environmental crisis ever seen...

Shown with PSSSHT