Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Feature Film: PUNK ROCK VEGAN MOVIE
Best Short Form Short Film: REBIRTH
Best Long Form Short Film: LOOSING GROUND
Best Human Interest Film: THE GODFATHER OF THE OCEAN
Best Direction: Wild Pyrénées
Best Political Film: SIN REFUGIO
Best Sound & Music: RESTORATION NATION
Best Cinematography: AMONG THE CORALS
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
THE GODFATHER OF THE OCEAN, 52min., France, Documentary
Directed by Martin Boudot, Hugo Van Offel
He is “The Godfather of the Oceans”. Junchang Wu is the leader of a criminal network trafficking “Totoaba”, an endangered fish living in Mexican waters. Known as the “cocaine of the sea” for its lucrative price – up to 50,000 euros per kilo – totoaba is said to have miraculous properties according to traditional Chinese medicine. This traffic of endangered species sees the unique collaboration of two of the most violent criminal organization in the world: the Mexican cartels and the Chinese mafia.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
LOOSING GROUND, 45min., Italy, Documentary
Directed by Angelo Loy, Martino Mazzonis
“Loosing Ground” recounts the lives of climate refugees in Bangladesh, who every day leave the countryside of the North submerged by increasingly frequent and abundant floods, who abandon the villages of the South where entire crops are destroyed by unpredictable and extremely violent cyclones. The stories of people fleeing the climatic events and their journey to Dhaka, where every day more than a thousand people get off ferries and buses destined to live in the slums, the immense slums of the Bangladeshi capital. Their arrival in the city is not the end of their troubles: here they risk being driven out of the shacks they have just built by building speculation.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
REBIRTH, 12min., USA, Animation/Doc
Directed by Frank Kilpatrick
Rebirth: Intended to foster environmental climate change awareness by children, Rebirth is A Child’s Environmentally-Friendly Fairytale — a 12-minute animated musical suite depicting the respective seasons in four movements: The mini-symphony features (recorded-live) violins, cellos, clarinet, oboe and timpani, among other instruments, as it gathers momentum to provide a personal experience of nature’s growth cycles – with trees dancing and tendrils triumphantly bursting forth through the soil. Further, it doubles as a meditation mindfulness exercise as it allows us to teach children to move a little bit more methodically – react less and observe more. To pay attention instead of being distracted.
https://www.gratitudevideo.com/rebirthnew
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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
Wild Pyrénées, 43min., France, Documentary
Directed by Alwa Deluze
Wild Pyrenees is above all an invitation to travel, to discover the wildest valleys of the Pyrenean massif. The film is composed of sumptuous images, usually reserved for experienced mountaineers or the most pugnacious naturalists.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
SIN REFUGIO, 17min., Mexico, Documentary
Directed by Roberto Bosoms, Andrea Cordoba
When the Mexican government decides to open an agricultural water dam in Chihuahua to pay a water debt to the United States, local farmers battle the military to protect their harvest and livelihoods.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
RESTORATION NATION, 7min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Charles Atkinson, Jeff Ostenson
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe keeps the health of the natural resources in mind when approaching sustainable development projects that benefit both the tribe and the surrounding community.
http://nwtreatytribes.org/
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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
AMONG THE CORALS, 28min., Panana, Documentary
Directed by Fabiano d’Amato
In the summer of 2021, scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute set sail for a three-week expedition on the Pacific coast of Panama to study uniquely resilient corals, known as Super Corals, for the Rohr Reef Resilience Project.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
PUNK ROCK VEGAN MOVIE, 91min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Moby
Directed by the musician Moby, Punk Rock Vegan Movie explores the intersection between punk rock and the animal rights movement.
https://www.punkrockveganmovie.com/
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https://www.twitter.com/moby
https://www.instagram.com/moby
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
Environmental Film and Screenplay Festival 