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Tasmania lies on the Australian continent, but is a world apart. It is home to an extraordinary cast of black devils and white wallabies. Trees here tower to one hundred meters and green lights dance in the southern sky. As the last landfall heading south before Antarctica, Tasmania’s isolation, cooler climate and distinct seasons influence everything.

Australia is experiencing an increase of all the extremes: sand storms, bush fires, droughts, flash floods, extreme temperatures, poor soil, lack of drinking water... with a 0.9°C temperature increase since 1910, the continent fights daily with climate change. The inhabitants arm themselves against the elements: important ocean water desalinization factories to produce drinking water and thus fight against drought; the reintroduction of burning methods practiced by the aborigines in the past; and livestock farmers’ methods’ aiming at being more environmentally friendly. Faced with urgency, the government sends scientists to converse with the aborigines for a sharing of know-how.

Vanishing Coral reveals the devastating effects of warming oceans and bleaching events within the “coral triangle” of Southeast Asia, and powerfully illustrates what some dedicated scientists and environmental activists are doing to save these unique coral populations. Coral reefs in the Florida Keys have declined by 80% over the past three decades. Scientists warn that all Caribbean coral could disappear in the next 20 years. Vanishing Coral offers an ecological alarm bell to the world, with specific suggestions on how viewers themselves can get involved and take action.

Coral bleaching, driven by rising sea temperatures, has grown from isolated, regional events to become a global threat. If we are to have any hope of saving the world's coral reefs alive for future generations, a new strategy is needed.

STRAWS is a powerful documentary about plastic straws and other forms of plastic pollution that inundate our waterways and oceans. The film illustrates how individuals, groups, and businesses around the globe are reducing plastic straw use through education, collaboration, policy development and utilization of non-plastic alternatives. With colorful opening animation narrated by Oscar winner Tim Robbins, STRAWS is entertaining as well as educational.

THE LAST PIG is a lyrical meditation on what it means to be a sentient creature with the power to kill. Deeply immersive and experiential, the film follows a pig farmer through his final year of slaughtering pigs. The bucolic life of the pigs on the farm is ruptured by weekly trips to the slaughterhouse. Through sparse, intimate musings, the farmer reveals the growing conflict of a life spent “peddling in death.”

Imagine the beautiful land vibrant with life in which the luxuriant flora explodes in the never ending cycle of seasons. A space on which countless quantity of animals species such as birds and insects found their safe place. This is also Annas world. And now imagine, how that all disappears under the cold turquoise surface of water… How it dies becoming only a memory sunk at the bottom of the artificial water body. The original natural-documentary film , which is specific kind of time travel showing the magic corners of the Skawa River that no longer exist or will disappear in a moment against a background of a newly built body of water in Świnna Poręba.

This is the story of how the violent power of the Earth has created a realm of unparalleled biodiversity and beauty. Southeast Asia’s islands are an extraordinary world of tree climbing kangaroos and boxing pigs, where birds hatch from the ash of erupting volcanoes. The region’s biological richness is the result of a violent collision between two different worlds, millions of years in the making.

The Python is a fascinating animal. But the fashion industry is hunting for these beautiful snakes. Its skin is coveted for luxury goods of all kinds. Hundreds of thousands of snakes are killed annually in Asia and shipped to the fashion industry in Europe, America, Japan and China. A German-South African scientist now has an idea to control especially the illegal snake trade. An extremely exciting documentary, filmed under difficult conditions, which also documents the lives of the catchers and shows the illegal trade routes.

In 2017, a group of young leaders from states on the front line of climate change and marine degradation joined Peace Boat's 95th Global Voyage in Barcelona as a part of a new program to highlight these crucial issues. These young women and men, between 19 and 26 years of age, were from the regions of the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and the Caribbean. Over the following three weeks, they visited Lisbon, Bordeaux, London, Edinburgh, Reykjavik and New York. In every port, they connected with civil society organizations and government agencies bringing their message to citizens and government representatives throughout the voyage. The film portrays their experience and raises awareness about the fragility and vulnerability of the small island states.

For generations, fluoride has been associated with healthy bones and teeth and added to water. Fluoride compounds are everywhere, from non-stick pans and pizza boxes to water resistant clothes. But it’s only good for us in quantities that are surprisingly easy to exceed. Above that, it can be toxic. In 2010, the WHO classified fluoride alongside asbestos and arsenic as one of the ten chemicals that poses the greatest risk to human health. And even at low doses, its toxicity is worrying scientists. It can remain in the body for years and is transmitted to babies via breastfeeding. In this film, we reveal how, in the 1930s, fluoride was rebranded as being good for us and investigate some of the health risks associated with it.

Wolves have become a prime object for behavioural research throughout Europe. This is the story of three extraordinary migrators. Slavko covers a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers, from Slovenia across the Austrian Alps well into Northern Italy. Alan sets out from Eastern Germany and finally reaches the border of Belarus. Ligabue migrates from Parma in Northern Italy to the French Alps. What urges single specimens of the European wolf to undertake such highly dangerous journeys?

The most important scientific expedition ever conducted in Papua embarks on the discovery of a lost world, isolated for millions of years, the Lengguru massif. Our film follows the odyssey of a multidisciplinary scientific expedition immersed in a unique ecosystem: the Lengguru karst massif, on the borders of the Indian Ocean, in West Papua. Their aim is to elucidate the mysteries of Lengguru. In the depths of marine waters, inside a labyrinth of underground caves, in the heart of the rainforest, or in altitude, atop jagged peaks, they will try to unravel the secrets of the evolution and adaptation of living species, prisoners of this lost world for millions of years.

Oscar®- and Emmy®-nominated director Brett Morgen uses a trove of never-before-seen 16 mm footage unearthed after 50 years from the National Geographic archives to shed fresh light on trailblazing conservationist Jane Goodall. The film tells Goodall’s story starting in 1960, when the 26-year-old British woman arrives in a remote area of northwestern Tanzania to study chimpanzees. Morgen offers an unprecedented, intimate portrait of a woman who defied the odds to become one of the world’s most admired conservationists.

About 5 million "țăranii" live in the countryside and on the outskirt of cities in Romania. Țaran means peasant but also land, "belonging to land". With almost 50% of the peasants in the European Union and 13,3 million hectares allocated to agriculture, Romania is one of the biggest agricultural resources in Europe. However, around here, agriculture and small-scale farming are seen more as an obstacle rather than a resource. What does it mean to be a peasant?

For thousands of years, Kenya's Maasai people had an ancient ritual: to prove their skills and courage, young men ventured out into the savannah - to search and kill a lion... But due to habitat loss, poaching and hunting, today there are only 20,000 lions left in Africa. As a means to stop the falling lion numbers, the Maasai decided to change their culture: instead of killing lions, the young men now compete in a different physical test: athletics. In 2008, the Maasai Olympics were founded, taking place in Kenya biannually. This way, bravery can still be expressed while the lion may continue to roam the African savannahs...

Together! is a voluntarily upbeat film that showcases innovative, creative and sustainable initiatives around the world, miles away from fatalism and morosity. Taking on from Rob Hopkins, who started the Towns in Transition movement, citizens, entrepreneurs and thinkers describe how they see our planet's future, but also their efforts to collectively achieve a different, and better way of living. The film is projected on 5 screens in the museum and can be seen with the 5 screens on a unique screen (then they are organized in a cross).

South Kamchatka Federal Sanctuary is often called bear paradise. We spent seven months observing two bear mothers and their cubs and unveiling secrets of the newborn bear cubs’ daily life. This is a movie that differs from the other nature documentary. The film is meditative. Music, the sounds of nature and the absence of a human voice allow the viewer to plunge into the beauty of wild nature as much as possible, to feel its presence among volcanoes, rivers and wild animals, and simultaneously experience an important boundary, beyond which a person should not interfere.

They are small. They are angry. And every four year or so they appear in masses seemingly from nowhere. Meet the Norway lemming, perhaps the most misunderstood and mysterious animal of the Scandinavian mountains. The film follows the unfolding ecological thriller of the exploding lemming population that creates a domino effect in the entire Nordic nature. Finally it inevitably leads to a dramatic climax with the crash of the lemming population and then a sudden lack of prey for the predators.

The documentary Enough White Teacups highlights the Danish non-profit, INDEX: Design to Improve Life ® (INDEX) and the film explores their history as an international design competition and highlights the most innovative INDEX award winners. Enough White Teacups showcases how design can be used to plan and build affordable housing, to prevent of blindness, to destroy landmines, to deliver vaccines and blood in remote areas, to clean up the oceans and to help prevent infant and mother mortality, among others. Enough White Teacups examines sustainable designs/inventions that embrace the principles of social, economic and ecological sustainability.

Toxic Bees - Human Intervention is a science program born of Taiwan Public Television Service’s concerns regarding environmental sustainability. Taking mass bee deaths as a point of departure, the program chronicles a litany of agrochemical misuse that has harmed both human health and the environment, and probes the shortcomings and blind spots inherent in current government policy. The viewer is left with a sobering message: the misuse of agrochemicals is creating an irreversible disaster.

Woven through a compelling series of portraits of Indigenous leaders from all continents making presentations at the United Nations, EARTH WISDOM FOR A WORLD IN CRISIS follows the Dakota Sioux’s non-violent resistance at the Standing Rock Reservation, where thousands of water protectors and military veterans joined forces to create what has become a high water mark in Native people’s historic struggle for land rights. Through the unique prism of indigenous cosmologies and native perspectives EARTH WISDOM FOR A WORLD IN CRISIS weaves a vivid contrast between the bureaucratic, slow-moving “recognition” of indigenous peoples by the United Nations, and the political immediacy of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest movement.

It's the beginning of May. The rushing torrent supplied by melting snow changes the emerald water of mountain tarns to white foam. Hundreds of springs of crystal-clear water are gradually flowing together in the wilderness of Tatra Mts. and creating one of the last wild rivers in the Central Europe. Where the forest grew formerly, the river is running now. Only stones and sand are in the former riverbed. But what can be considered a senseless picture of destruction is a masterpiece in fact. The river does not destroy, it creates and supports many forms of life. The River Belá is cold, rapid and dangerous. But it is also rich. Generous. Free. It remains unrestrained till now. It persisted to remind us how wild rivers look. In order to inspire us to return the liberty back to rivers that have already lost their freedom.

This groundbreaking documentary reveals the global syndicates that fuel the illegal killing of rhinos. Rhino horn has become one of the most traded products on the international black market. It has become a commodity traded along with drugs and weapons by major criminal syndicates. The horns from an adult rhino can sell for up to $250,000. The villagers who kill the endangered animals are paid by well-organized criminal syndicates and receive a mere fraction of that. China has now announced plans to implement a ban on domestic commercial trade of ivory and horn, in order to protect the endangered species of Africa.

The industrialization of the humble tomato preceded the globalized economy that was to follow. It is now as much of a commodity as wheat, rice, or petrol. The tomato’s ability to create strongly identifiable products, such as ketchup, pizza sauce, soups, sauces, drinks or frozen dishes is unbeatable. As early as 1897 Heinz was already converting tomatoes into standardized cans of puree. They banned unions, imposed uniform standards of production and established genetic laboratories that ensured identical tomato plantations all around the world. This film will trace the journey of tomato paste from Africa, Italy, China and America to show the consequences of this global business.

The first Polish feature film about climate change and the inevitable energy revolution. We find out what is disrupting the Earth’s climate and what the consequences of such disruption are. Is there a future based on coal and oil, can we deal with smog and what must happen to prevent a tragedy similar to that of the great extinction? The response to these and many other intriguing questions is sought by actor Marcin Dorociński.

Imagine the beautiful land vibrant with life in which the luxuriant flora explodes in the never ending cycle of seasons. A space on which countless quantity of animals species such as birds and insects found their safe place. This is also Annas world. And now imagine, how that all disappears under the cold turquoise surface of water… How it dies becoming only a memory sunk at the bottom of the artificial water body. The original natural-documentary film , which is specific kind of time travel showing the magic corners of the Skawa River that no longer exist or will disappear in a moment against a background of a newly built body of water in Świnna Poręba.

The Brazilian Amazon now reckons 85 million cows, three for every human dweller. In the 1970s, there were almost no cows and the rainforest was intact. Since then, a portion the size of France has disappeared, 66% of which transformed into pastures. Much of this change is a consequence of government incentives that attracted thousands of farmers from more southern lands. Nowadays, cattle ranching became an economic and cultural banner of the Amazon, forging powerful politicians to defend it. In 2009, there was a game changer: the Public Prosecutor's Office sued large slaughterhouses, forcing them to supervise cattle supplying farms.

How far can you travel in Norway living exclusively of food waste? All the way, as it turns out. Food waste is a huge problem in the small, wealthy country where 1/4 of the food ends up in dumpsters. Four young activists want to start a campaign for change, and decide to ride their bikes the 3000 km from North Cape all the way to the south of Norway. They make a vow to eat nothing but expired food from supermarkets, and soon discover that they can live as kings off food waste. But what does this really say about their country and the way we live our lives?

Two dedicated divers, cameraman Zsolt Sásdi and nature photographer Dániel Selmeczi decided to visit one of the richest marine habitats on Earth: the coral reefs of the Western Red Sea Coast. On their journey, they come across abandoned shipwrecks and sharp-toothed sharks. At the favourite dive sites of the pioneers of diving, Hans Hass and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, they visit the most beautiful dive sites of the Red Sea, and experience firsthand the infinite variety of the underwater wilderness.

South Kamchatka Federal Sanctuary is often called bear paradise. We spent seven months observing two bear mothers and their cubs and unveiling secrets of the newborn bear cubs’ daily life. This is a movie that differs from the other nature documentary. The film is meditative. Music, the sounds of nature and the absence of a human voice allow the viewer to plunge into the beauty of wild nature as much as possible, to feel its presence among volcanoes, rivers and wild animals, and simultaneously experience an important boundary, beyond which a person should not interfere.

The Brazilian Amazon now reckons 85 million cows, three for every human dweller. In the 1970s, there were almost no cows and the rainforest was intact. Since then, a portion the size of France has disappeared, 66% of which transformed into pastures. Much of this change is a consequence of government incentives that attracted thousands of farmers from more southern lands. Nowadays, cattle ranching became an economic and cultural banner of the Amazon, forging powerful politicians to defend it. In 2009, there was a game changer: the Public Prosecutor's Office sued large slaughterhouses, forcing them to supervise cattle supplying farms.

Two thirty-something city boys from Amsterdam get into an argument about GMOs. Karsten is a relative noob when it comes to GMOs, but he reads that they are bad for your health and that they are used by big agrochemical companies to monopolise the food chain. Hidde, a scientist and science journalist, tries to explain that the basic assumption of Karsten is incorrect and that genetic modification can be used both in a sustainable way and to alleviate hunger and poverty. They travel to Bangladesh where genetically modified crops are used and developed outside the realm of monocultures and big farms, to investigate what's what.

Soil has been accompanying life on Earth for ages and people could not exist on this planet without it. It is both precious and common, animate and inanimate, lost and irreplaceable. What do we actually know about soil? And how do we handle this knowledge? How do people look after the skin of Mother Earth, the Geoderma? These very questions are answered by our host, the soil biologist Ladislav Miko.

In 2017, a group of young leaders from states on the front line of climate change and marine degradation joined Peace Boat's 95th Global Voyage in Barcelona as a part of a new program to highlight these crucial issues. These young women and men, between 19 and 26 years of age, were from the regions of the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and the Caribbean. Over the following three weeks, they visited Lisbon, Bordeaux, London, Edinburgh, Reykjavik and New York. In every port, they connected with civil society organizations and government agencies bringing their message to citizens and government representatives throughout the voyage. The film portrays their experience and raises awareness about the fragility and vulnerability of the small island states.

The documentary Enough White Teacups highlights the Danish non-profit, INDEX: Design to Improve Life ® (INDEX) and the film explores their history as an international design competition and highlights the most innovative INDEX award winners. Enough White Teacups showcases how design can be used to plan and build affordable housing, to prevent of blindness, to destroy landmines, to deliver vaccines and blood in remote areas, to clean up the oceans and to help prevent infant and mother mortality, among others. Enough White Teacups examines sustainable designs/inventions that embrace the principles of social, economic and ecological sustainability.

Australia is experiencing an increase of all the extremes: sand storms, bush fires, droughts, flash floods, extreme temperatures, poor soil, lack of drinking water... with a 0.9°C temperature increase since 1910, the continent fights daily with climate change. The inhabitants arm themselves against the elements: important ocean water desalinization factories to produce drinking water and thus fight against drought; the reintroduction of burning methods practiced by the aborigines in the past; and livestock farmers’ methods’ aiming at being more environmentally friendly. Faced with urgency, the government sends scientists to converse with the aborigines for a sharing of know-how.

OWINO is the story of the fight of a small African community against a factory that poisoned their lives with lead, a killer industry operating across Africa in front of the eyes of careless governments and global markets.

It's the beginning of May. The rushing torrent supplied by melting snow changes the emerald water of mountain tarns to white foam. Hundreds of springs of crystal-clear water are gradually flowing together in the wilderness of Tatra Mts. and creating one of the last wild rivers in the Central Europe. Where the forest grew formerly, the river is running now. Only stones and sand are in the former riverbed. But what can be considered a senseless picture of destruction is a masterpiece in fact. The river does not destroy, it creates and supports many forms of life. The River Belá is cold, rapid and dangerous. But it is also rich. Generous. Free. It remains unrestrained till now. It persisted to remind us how wild rivers look. In order to inspire us to return the liberty back to rivers that have already lost their freedom.

Since Lake Hamoun has gone dry, numerous environmental and social problems have appeared in Sistan region. Poverty, emigration, and the extinction of traditional and local jobs have been the result of the drying of Lake Hamoun in the southeast of Iran in Sistan and Baluchistan Province on Iran Afghanistan border. This documentary depicts the present situation of Lake Hamoon and the problems of the people around it.

STRAWS is a powerful documentary about plastic straws and other forms of plastic pollution that inundate our waterways and oceans. The film illustrates how individuals, groups, and businesses around the globe are reducing plastic straw use through education, collaboration, policy development and utilization of non-plastic alternatives. With colorful opening animation narrated by Oscar winner Tim Robbins, STRAWS is entertaining as well as educational.

Together! is a voluntarily upbeat film that showcases innovative, creative and sustainable initiatives around the world, miles away from fatalism and morosity. Taking on from Rob Hopkins, who started the Towns in Transition movement, citizens, entrepreneurs and thinkers describe how they see our planet's future, but also their efforts to collectively achieve a different, and better way of living. The film is projected on 5 screens in the museum and can be seen with the 5 screens on a unique screen (then they are organized in a cross).

Tasmania lies on the Australian continent, but is a world apart. It is home to an extraordinary cast of black devils and white wallabies. Trees here tower to one hundred meters and green lights dance in the southern sky. As the last landfall heading south before Antarctica, Tasmania’s isolation, cooler climate and distinct seasons influence everything.

When scientists ask big questions about the rules of nature, they often seek out unlikely creatures – lizards called anoles – to find the answers. In The Lizard’s Tale, two filmmakers embark on a year-long adventure to reveal the surprising story of anoles, the most important lizards in the world!

How far can you travel in Norway living exclusively of food waste? All the way, as it turns out. Food waste is a huge problem in the small, wealthy country where 1/4 of the food ends up in dumpsters. Four young activists want to start a campaign for change, and decide to ride their bikes the 3000 km from North Cape all the way to the south of Norway. They make a vow to eat nothing but expired food from supermarkets, and soon discover that they can live as kings off food waste. But what does this really say about their country and the way we live our lives?

Merely 3000 people inhabit East Greenland’s 20.000km long coast. It is one of the least populated places on our planet. The environment of East Greenland created one of the most specialized hunting cultures in the world. A lot has changed and a lot of modern comforts became part of the everyday life. But the cultural roots are still deep and strong and the hunter is the pillar of society in these areas. But the status of the hunter as the economic basis of the society has been severely undermined.

Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust loves animals. Not just the headline grabbing super mega fauna but the little guys too, the species overlooked, too small to be seen and heard - the underdog species - Join Durrell staff in remote north east India as they save the smallest pigs in the world from extinction.

Low White Sky focuses on vertical farming, permaculture and urban gardening. It is an exploration of alternatives to our current agricultural systems. Vertical farming has the possibility to ultimately transform cities into self-sufficient sustainable entities. While permaculture can provide safe food production and alternative lifestyles to rural and suburban dwellers. City residents, planners, architects and politicians can also develop sustainable urban design projects like New York’s “High Line” and urban gardening and forestry development similar to Vancouver, Canada’s green planning techniques all featured in this film.

Story of a Walachian sheep (Valaska) that had changed Liptov region and became a cornerstone of very important tradition in Slovakia. It came to our country centuries ago during the Walachian colonization. Thanks to the inhabitants of the northern territories who took advantages of this unique species, it enriched their eating habits and found a new way to their livelihood. While thriving in the past, few years ago it was on the edge of extinction. Fortunately, some enthusiasts decided to save Walachian sheep and managed to increased the number of up to 400 individuals. However, sheep farming is still facing many problems. But loosing it, would mean loosing a very important part of our culture and history.

Hidden in the thick rainforests covering these steep volcano slopes, the world’s last mountain gorillas have found a refuge. Join us on a journey to northern Rwanda, to meet a young gorilla doctor whose job is to keep them healthy. See his colleagues save a critically injured female gorilla. Follow rangers and trackers as they hunt illegal hunters, and learn how a new generation of scientists continues the work of Dian Fossey, the famous primatologist who sacrificed her life so gorillas could live.

Jerte, a narrow valley in southwestern Spain, experiences a natural event every spring, its rugged orography and its small extension making it unique: the flowering of the almost two million cherry trees that cover its slopes with a dazzling white mantle. Spring in the Jerte is undoubtedly a magical time thanks to the cherry trees. And it is also because of the rich variety of animal and plant species that share this peculiar space.

Last of the Longnecks is a documentary exploring the plight of giraffes and the implications of their demise in our rapidly changing world. With the energy of VIRUNGA, the film celebrates what makes these majestic animals so unique, sheds light on their struggle, and further explores what hope can be found in the tangled relationship between humanity and nature.

Toxic Bees - Human Intervention is a science program born of Taiwan Public Television Service’s concerns regarding environmental sustainability. Taking mass bee deaths as a point of departure, the program chronicles a litany of agrochemical misuse that has harmed both human health and the environment, and probes the shortcomings and blind spots inherent in current government policy. The viewer is left with a sobering message: the misuse of agrochemicals is creating an irreversible disaster.

“Long Yearning” is a cinematic exploration of the lives of Chinese factory workers and the nature of repetitive industrialized work. The film is intermixed with written excerpts of traditional Chinese poetry, creating a surreal merging between modern and ancient China.

This groundbreaking documentary reveals the global syndicates that fuel the illegal killing of rhinos. Rhino horn has become one of the most traded products on the international black market. It has become a commodity traded along with drugs and weapons by major criminal syndicates. The horns from an adult rhino can sell for up to $250,000. The villagers who kill the endangered animals are paid by well-organized criminal syndicates and receive a mere fraction of that. China has now announced plans to implement a ban on domestic commercial trade of ivory and horn, in order to protect the endangered species of Africa.