Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
BEST FILM: Siyaya – Come Wild With Us
BEST FICTION FILM: The Hurl
BEST DOCUMENTARY: The Depths of Ningaloo
BEST HUMAN STORY; Ennabta Farms
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: YWY – Our Land!
BEST SOUND & MUSIC: Climate Under Pressure
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
THE DEPTHS OF NINGALOO, 12min., Australia, Documentary
Directed by Logan Mock-Bunting, Carlie Wiener
In March 2020, a team of ocean scientists set out to observe, document, and characterize the deep-sea biodiversity in the Cape Range and Ningaloo Canyons – a region off of Western Australia, where almost no exploration had taken place. This documentary was filmed entirely at sea, as Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor – along with their underwater robot, Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) SuBastian – collected beautiful visual surveys and sampling of the environment, providing important evidence for the unique life forms and geologic structures of this little-studied region. The remote Western Australian coast is well known for its immense diversity of evolutionary significant fauna, but this celebrated area remained nearly unexplored until this first-of-its-kind expedition.
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SIYAYA – COME WILD WITH US. AFRICA: TALES FROM THE EDGE, 26min., South Africa, Documentary
Directed by François Odendaal
Taking a break from the bush the team
watches a large Cape Fur Seal steal Uish
from the market in Kalk Bay. Trash Uloating
in the harbour water is a sad reminder
that plastics in the ocean threatens marine
life across the globe. They Uind out how the
Southern Right Whale was brought back
from the brink of extinction. Continuing
northwards they spot a herd of Bontebok
and learn that these beautiful antelopeswere nearly decimated completely through hunting too. In the nick of time their fate was turned around when protected areas such as the Cape Peninsula National Park were created and adequate habitat was provided. Other animals were less fortunate. The mood grows somber when Oompie recounted how Bluebuck and the beautiful Quagga roamed the Cape Peninsula but disappeared not long after the Uirst Europeans settled at the Cape of Good Hope.
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CLIMATE UNDER PRESSURE, 12min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Carlie Wiener, Alex Ingle
“There is an abundance of information in the ocean’s depths that could be vital to our survival.” Come take a look at the wondrous and fragile ecosystems that lie so far beneath the ocean’s surface, as we examine the deep-sea exploration and its impact on climate. Features original footage from a number of expeditions that took place on Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Research Vessel Falkor and the associated deep-sea technology.
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THE HURL, 5min., Lebanon, Sci-Fi/Action
Directed by Samir Kawas
Trash around a small town in Lebanon mysteriously starts to slither away onto the streets, forming a monstrous, sky-scraping tower of garbage, Mother Nature’s vengeful plan to ruin whoever has ruined her Earth. Little do the frightened citizens know that they’ve brought the hurl upon themselves.
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ENNABTA FARMS, 12min,. Egypt, Documentary
Directed by Khaled Amgad Shalaby
“Ennabta” is one of the farms here in Egypt that uses the “Aquaponics” system in it’s farms.
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YWY – OUR LAND!, 31min., Germany, Documentary
Directed by David Straub
“YWY” tells of the cultural change within the people of the Asurini, directly located at the Brazilian Xingú. Since Bolsonaro came to power, invasions by loggers and land grabbers have increased on the people’s legally protected territory. In addition, during the shooting of the film team it becomes clear that massive compensation money flows into the region erase what was once untouched and intact.
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Environmental Film and Screenplay Festival 