Mark Watney on mukana astronauttien ryhmässä, joka on Marsissa suorittamassa Nasan Ares III -tehtävää. Avaruusmyrskyssä Watney eksyy ja hänen luullaan kuolleen. Muut ryhmän jäsenet lähtevät paluumatkalle ja Watney jää yksin punaiselle planeetalle. Kun ruokaa on vain kuukaudeksi ja pelastajia täytyy odotella kenties vuosia, niin Watney joutuu miettimään luovia ratkaisuja turvatakseen ravinnonsaantinsa. Onneksi hänellä on kasvitieteilijän koulutus. Marsin pinnalla minkään ei pitäisi kasvaa, mutta neuvokas Watney rakentaa eräänlaisen kasvihuoneen, jossa hän yrittää kasvattaa perunaa. Ravinnonsaanti näyttää ratkeavan ainakin hetkeksi, mutta varsinainen ongelma on isompi. Watney on edelleen jumissa Marsissa, mutta luottaa kekseliäisyyteensä löytääkseen keinon viestittää Maahan olevansa elossa. Lopulta hänet huomataan Maassa ja NASAn kansainvälinen tiimi tiedemiehiä alkaa tekemään väsymättä töitä tuodakseen tämän yksinäisen ”marsilaisen” kotiin.
Virtuaalitodellisuutta tutkiva Tri Angelo houkuttelee koekaniinikseen yksinkertaisen Ruohonleikkaajan, Joben, joka tuntuu aluksi nauttivan ja hyötyvän kokeista ja tuloksista. Hänen olematonta aivokapasiteettiaan laajennetaan tietokoneen avulla ja hän ylittääkin ällistyttävän nopeasti kaikki normaalin älykkyyden rajat. Ruohonleikkaajan pelottava todellisuus alkaa pian näkyä kokeiden seurauksena ja koko tutkimus ryöstäytyy Tri Angelon käsistä. Ruohonleikkaaja ryhtyy kostamaan alistajilleen kärsimänsä vääryydet uusien saavuttamiensa voimien avulla.
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
Erilainen romanttinen komedia, jossa varattomaksi päätynyt playboy haluaa jatkossakin välttää työnteon ja alkaa etsiä rikasta vaimoa voidakseen hoitaa tämän hengiltä ja kerätä perinnön.
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.
When scientists in the Antarctic uncover a mysterious seed pod, the Doctor is called in to investigate. He soon realises it is extraterrestrial and extremely dangerous. At the same time, however, ruthless millionaire plant-lover Harrison Chase has learned of the find and decides he must have the pod for his collection of rare and beautiful flora. Meanwhile the pod itself harbours intelligent life with sinister plans of its own...
A botanical expedition to the Himalayas captures a Yeti and brings it back alive to Los Angeles, where it escapes and runs amok, seeking food.
Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose discoveries of hallucinogenic plants laid the foundation for the psychedelic sixties. Now in this two hour History Channel TV Special, his former student Wade Davis, follows in his footsteps to experience the discoveries that Schultes brought to the western world. Shot around the planet, from Canada to the Amazon, we experience rarely seen native hallucinogenic ceremonies and find out the true events leading up to the Psychedelic Sixties. Featuring author/adventurer Wade Davis ("Serpent and the Rainbow"), Dr. Andrew Weil, the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and many others, this program tells the story of the discovery of peyote, magic mushrooms and beyond: one man's little known quest to classify the Plants of the Gods. Richard Evans Schultes revolutionized science and spawned another revolution he never imagined.
14-part special in which botanist Francis Hallé explains forest science and processes. Part of the "Once Upon a Forest" physical release.
Seven years after the mysterious death of her mother, an isolated botanist meets an enigmatic, teenage runaway in a creek. Forming an unexpected bond, the two embark on a harrowing journey to confront their respective pasts, all while slowly realizing that they may not have to face their uncertain futures alone.
"There are things in this world that are yet to be named" centers around Solanum plastisexum - an Australian tomato whose sexual expression is unpredictable and unstable, challenging even the fluid norms of the plant kingdom. Footage of the team of botanists who recently used their Solanum research to explode notions of sexual normativity in any plant or animal is combined with a voiceover of letters sent between science writer Rachel Carson and her lover Dorothy Freeman. "There are things in this world that are yet to be named" is a meditation on erasure, indefinability, and the intersection of queer and environmental histories.
The year 2067. A spaceship travels through the menacing emptiness of space carrying thousands of plants and seeds from a dying Earth in search of an uncertain and very distant future.
Short film in competition at the 48Hours Film Project. Sci-Fi/Mystery genre.
Directed by Simone Marsella, starring Ludovica Castrichella, Dario Grasso and Federico Imola.
Stockholm 1956. The Swedish botanist, candidate and lieutenant Nils von Ekelöw, presents his research to a panel of professors.
A Montreal man imagines a mermaid in place of the writer whose picture appears on a novel.
After returning from a year-long Moon mission, Cassie, a NASA botanist, finds herself in a remote cabin in the woods, where her estranged twin sister, Stella, a former NASA architect, has found a new life with climate activist Bryan. Old wounds resurface as the sisters attempt to pick up the pieces of the rivalry that broke them apart.
A story of four childhood friends who mysteriously disappeared while camping in the rural mountains of Trans Ili Alatau. The following events were recorded on Sultan's videocamera, who was making his student thesis project on a local plant called the Asafoetida.
A botanist has a run in with a group of cocaine dealers and is kidnapped, but not before calling on her brother for help.