Everyday as we put out our garbage, are we thinking of its impact on global warming and climate change? Very often we are not making the connection. India generates over 42 million tonnes of garbage everyday, the majority of which reaches landfills and open dump sites. These are massive polluters and are amongst the primary contributors to climate change, leading to resource destruction, and thereby encouraging further resource extraction. Often overlooked, is the fact that urban landfill... more

This is a personal story of one small woman’s fight to save one of the planet’s largest animals. Lek has saved hundreds of Asian Elephants from abuse, street begging and hardship over the past 20 years. Working from a remote village in Northern Thailand, she continues her dangerous work despite obstacles and death threats. Running this sanctuary, Lek has devoted her life to saving this animal. As experts predict the Asian Elephant faces extinction within four decades, her work is needed now mor... more

From 2009 to 2011, under a total secrecy, Professor Séralini and the CRIIGEN* led an experiment on a genetically modified organism** and the herbicide Roundup. The conclusions are appalling… After Chernobyl’s disaster, the invisible radioactivity reappeared in March 2011 with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. GMOs & NUCLEAR POWER: We use and accept these technologies without medical or environmental independent tests. Are all of us guinea-pigs now? *Committee for Research an... more

Way Beyond Weight is a documentary about obesity, the biggest epidemic in the history that affects children. For the first time children have the same disease symptoms as adults: heart and breathing problems, depression, and type 2 diabetes. All of them are based on obesity. Worldwide, kids are heavier than they should be. And unhealthy. From Brazil to Kuwait, childhood obesity is becoming very common. Why are kids carrying this extra weight? The industry, the marketers, the parents, th... more

Brazil is, since 2008, the country that consumes more pesticides on the planet! Many of these herbicides, fungicides and pesticides we consume are prohibited almost everywhere in the world for the risk they pose to human health and the environment. The danger is for the workers, who handle the poisons, and for the entire population of the countryside and cities, which consume agricultural products with pesticides. "The world is being completely intoxicated by an unnecessary and greedy industr... more

"He who wants water must be prepared to kill for it," goes an old Arab saying. At the beginning of the 21st century, water, the ancient source of life, is already in short supply all over the world. From the heart of Africa to the Aral Sea in the Kazakh steppe the film portrays different people's lives and their struggle for water and survival.

Occupied Cascadia is a documentary film both journalistic and expressionistic. Exploring the emerging understanding of bioregionalism within the lands and waters of the Northeast Pacific Rim, the filmmakers interweave intimate landscape portraits with human voices both ideological and indigenous. Stories from the land contrast critique of dominant culture, while an embrace of the radical unknown informs a re-birthed and growing culture of resistance. Filming began during the outset of the populis... more