Distinguished
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Purva Tavri
Cinematography by Chitragya Studio – Shekhar Ghosh and Ankush Harmukh
Across India’s overlooked margins, India’s Circularity – Not a Trend, But a Tradition from the Margins reveals how reuse, repair, and regeneration are not innovations—but inherited ways of life rooted in culture, necessity, and care. Featuring voices across sectors—artists, makers, NGO leaders, entrepreneurs, government officials, planners, engineers, institutions, and homemakers—the film journeys through terracotta clusters in Rajasthan, bamboo-timber homes in Sikkim, palm-leaf artisans in Kerala, and community commons in Chhattisgarh. One story is deeply personal: the director’s mother, whose regenerative practices shaped the director’s own circular worldview long before her professional work in sustainability. With poetic narration, immersive visuals, and grounded research, the film reframes circularity as a lived tradition, not a future policy aspiration.
Marshall Corwin
With a major contribution from His Majesty the King, environmentalist Steve Backshall heads on an extreme adventure to the Arctic in the fifty year old footsteps of King Charles to see what has changed half a century on.
Fran Guijarro
In San Francisco, a man enduring homelessness for two decades connects with passersby to be seen among the invisible, a skill he learned from a promising music career cut short in the 70s, and one that will ultimately transform his life.
In the 1970s, Moses was a gifted songwriter and guitarist on the brink of a breakthrough—until addiction unraveled his life and set him on a very different path. He finds solace on a street corner in the financial district, where he shows a unique gift for connecting with passersby, aiming to make himself visible among the invisible. There he meets a Spanish immigrant film student who offers him the lead role in a narrative short. The making of this film unexpectedly launches Moses on a journey to reclaim his life, family, and music. Along this path, storytellers from the past emerge—a novelist, a photographer, and a cinematographer—each of whom played a vital role in Moses’s quest to regain his humanity. Filmed over 15 years, the story features Moses’s original, never-before-released music and is captured across MiniDV, HD video, 35mm, Super 16mm, and Super 8mm film.
Malgorzata Szyszka
“He doesn’t just live in the Forest. He is its guardian.”
The magic of the Białowieża Forest, freedom, and the fight for nature.
Meet Tomasz Onikijuk – the Forest Guardian of the forest’s secrets, who has lived in harmony with nature since childhood.
Herbs, wild animals, the rituals of ancestors… and the fight for every patch of the Forest.
The Forest Guardian isn’t afraid to speak out – he helps refugees, protects bison and wolves, and on social media inspires young people to fall in love with nature. “Forest Guardian –stories from the Heart of Wood ” will take you on a journey through the magical landscapes of Podlasie and introduce you to a man for whom the forest is home, and cats – a symbol of freedom. The film also features Adam Wajrak – renowned journalist, defender of nature, and friend of the Forest.
Gaby Bastyra
After a life spent travelling the globe, the world’s most famous naturalist turns his attention closer to home to explore the wildlife of England’s iconic capital. Having lived in London for 75 years, Sir David has an intimate knowledge of the city’s natural history, and there’s no better guide to introduce us to its most spectacular wildlife secrets.
Salomé Lauwerijs
In Belgium, where alcohol is part of everyday life, a new movement is growing: choosing not to drink.
This film follows Charlotte, Laura, Arthur and Alexandre — four Belgians with different backgrounds and relationships to alcohol, who share their personal paths toward sobriety.
Misha Pishalnik and Tia Georgiou
John Rhyder is one of the UK’s leading bushcraft and wildlife tracking experts, as well as a naturalist, woodsman, teacher and writer. John leads us through his personal journey to forging a unique career fueled by his relentless curiosity for nature, his collection of artifacts he’s gained along the way(including his scat collection) and showcases his animal tracking skills in the wild. Championing the revival of ancient skills for a modern world.
Director: Mehdi Afsharnik
A journey across Iran, Iraq, and Turkey follows environmental activist Mohammad Darvish as he traces the slow death of the Hoor-al-Azim wetland — from the oil fields on the Iran–Iraq border to the dams of the Tigris and Euphrates in Turkey, where the ancient city of Hasankeyf now lies underwater. Speaking with sheikhs, fishermen, farmers, and scholars on both sides of every border, the film builds a transnational portrait of a shared environmental catastrophe with no single villain.
Mirko Pincelli
All The World Is Green explores the inherent destructive force of animal farming, two big questions are left unanswered: what is being done to change our collective approach to food consumption and production? And how are we going to fix the damage that our food system has done to our planet? An epic journey around the world, unveiling the destructive scope of our appetite, and uncovering the efforts of a vanguard acknowledging the effects of our actions, determined new relationship with planet Earth.
Justine Aldersey-Williams
When an ambitious experiment between a textile activist and a celebrity clothier meets inevitable challenges, one woman is propelled into an initiation that makes British fashion history. With a community of volunteers, they envisioned homegrown jeans sold through a social enterprise, but their work exposed difficult truths about the systems controlling industry. Despite its sophistication, the U.K. can no longer produce clothing without importing materials or causing harm.
In a country buying 70 million pairs a year, Woman Grows Jeans journeys into our resilient ancestry to reclaim the care and agency that’s key to regeneration. After 600 hours, the UK’s only pair of homegrown jeans were handmade – not as a relic, but as a provocative signpost toward the future our hearts know is possible. A celebration of the traditional skills that reconnect us to nature’s wisdom, this documentary proves that the power to create change is still in our hands.
Joshua Thompson
Officially endorsed by the Fungi Foundation, Kingdom Fungi is a feature documentary that delves into the extraordinary world of fungi, following four dedicated amateur and professional field mycologists whose work is driven by a shared mission to document, educate and protect this remarkable kingdom.
Set across diverse and changing habitats in Southern England, the film reveals the science of identification, the ecological processes unfolding beneath our feet, global environmental policy, and the personal stories that drive each character’s devotion.
The journey extends internationally—following a botanical artist exhibiting at the Reino Fungi Festival, with insight from the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew) and the Fungi Foundation. The film also takes us on a special fungi photography expedition to the Himalayan foothills, guided by the National Mushroom Centre, to explore the largely undocumented species of the temperate rainforests of Bhutan in search of new-to-science species.
KINGDOM FUNGI reveals fungi as a vast and largely under-researched kingdom that continues to shape life on Earth in ways we are only just beginning to understand.
Heike Grebe
One word, above all, defines Vietnam: unique. It´s home to many animal species that are found nowhere else on Earth. However, humans are claiming more and more land for their own purposes, displacing the animals and endangering their existence. As civilisation encroaches on the wilderness, the animals find themselves trapped. For now, some refuges remain. Remote, untamed habitats, like the mysterious mountain rainforests of north Vietnam.