Det är den fjärde juli år 2008 och LA står på randen till socal, ekonomisk och ekologisk katastrof. Boxer Santaros är en actionhjälte som lider av minnesförlust. Hans liv flätas samman med Krysta Now, en fd porrstjärna som skapat sin egen realityshow, och Roland Taverner, en polis som håller i nyckeln till en förbluffande konspiration i ett land där polismakten får allt större kontroll över befolkningen.
Film from Andrew Morgan. The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.
Peter Wilcox, as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew member, he must convince the police superintendent that this is an act of terrorism. Determined not to allow outside forces to threaten their harbor, the police embark on a pursuit of the persons responsible. The events that follow nearly bring down an allied nation's government.
Täckt av hemlighetsfulla moln och kringgärdad av en ännu mer mystisk legend, reser berget Tanglewood majestätiskt och stilla sin stolta topp mot himlen. Den skyddade och ofördärvade vildmarken runt omkring är hemvist för en vild fauna och oskattbart timmer.
Här i detta paradis håller Tanglewood-lorderna till, en grupp ungdomar som tar sin verklighetsflykt i drömmar och äventyr i sina boningar uppe i träden.
Men ungdomarna är inte ensamma. En mystisk legend berättar om en ande som strövar omkring på berget. Ursprunget till legenden går tillbaka till 1875 då den modige bergsmannen Jedidiah McKenna bodde i dessa trakter. McKenna sköts av ett gäng banditer vid ett bakhåll vilka ville bygga järnväg på helig indianmark. Men McKenna övergav aldrig berget. Hans ande dröjer ännu idag kvar över Tanglewood precis som även hans ständiga kamp för att rädda vildmarken fortsätter.
Är framgång alltid bra? Eller håller vår strävan efter mera, större, bättre på att förgöra både oss själva och vår planet?
We all love food. As a society, we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blogs. So how could we possibly be throwing nearly 50% of it in the trash? Filmmakers and food lovers Jen and Grant dive into the issue of waste from farm, through retail, all the way to the back of their own fridge. After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars of good food that is tossed each year in North America, they pledge to quit grocery shopping and survive only on discarded food. What they find is truly shocking.
Ten years after the film Home (2009), Yann Arthus-Bertrand looks back, with Legacy, on his life and fifty years of commitment. It's his most personal film. The photographer and director tells the story of nature and man. He also reveals a suffering planet and the ecological damage caused by man. He finally invites us to reconcile with nature and proposes several solutions
An exposé on the public health impact of factory farming across the United States, told through the eyes of residents in five rural communities. When pushed to their limit, these citizens turned activists band together to demand justice.
Anita Chitaya has a gift: she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and maybe she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home in Malawi from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate sceptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions that shape the USA: from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, and to the American exceptionalism that remains a part of the culture. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognise, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth.
A doctor's efforts to live a green life near the Appalachian Mountains lead to the development of a radical idea to use green burials to conserve one million acres of land and to create wildlife reserves.
A team of 20 elite Nepali climbers venture into the Death Zone of Mount Everest to restore their sacred mountain and the contaminated water source of 1.3 billion people. They ascend the highest point on the planet to the 150 bodies of deceased climbers and 100,000 pounds of rubbish that remain on the high slopes of Everest. This is the self-documented story of their life-threatening journey.
Stop motion short film against open pit mining.
An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.
When some Belfast children find out that city planners intend to "develop" a wooded area called the Glen that the girls use as a retreat from the pressures of city life, they decide to fight back - but in their own way.
Africa's development is being held back by poor infrastructure and undersized power plants. Countries like Uganda can only produce only 1/4 of the energy needed, leading to daily power cuts with disastrous economic impacts. It's a golden opportunity for nuclear giants who lobby aggressively for more power plants in Africa. But how safe are these new reactors? And what do they mean for the locals?
Inhabit is a feature length documentary introducing permaculture: a design method that offers an ecological lens for solving issues related to agriculture, economics, governance, and on. The film presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people, and it translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by an equally diverse audience. For those familiar, it will be a call to action and a glimpse into what's possible - what kind of projects and solutions are already underway. For those unfamiliar, it will be an introduction to a new way of being and a new way of relating to the Earth. For everyone, it will be a reminder that humans are capable of being planetary healing forces.