Title:This film is Garbage! (60).

Synopsis: Fifteen years after his eye-opening examination of the average, everyday waste consumption habits of his fellow Canadians in Garbage! The Revolution Starts At Home, filmmaker Andrew Nisker finds himself more concerned than ever about humanity’s filthy habits. A quick glance outside confirms that the situation is critical. In a world full of performative greenwashing, corporations fueling the fires of mindless consumerism, and governments’ futile efforts to clean up the mess, it’s no wonder that the average citizen has fallen out of touch with the waste we each create, everyday. Enlisting the help of your average condo-dwelling couple and a typical rural nuclear family, Andrew once again embarks on an adventure through our waste, tracing our garbage from our carefully sorted bins to landfills and beyond, and meeting innovators along the way who are working hard to create sustainable alternatives, turning our expendable trash into repurposed treasures.

Directed by: Andrew Nisker from Canada

Title: The European pond turtle. A unique relic of Polish nature

Synopsis: In northern and central Europe, the European pond turtle is now a very rare animal and has been included in the Red List of Threatened Animals in many countries. The main reason for the disappearance of this species was humans, who have destroyed its populations and habitats for hundreds of years. In many regions of Europe it was caught en masse for culinary purposes. The European pond is the only naturally occurring species of turtle in Poland. The film allows you to get to know this unusual reptile better.

Directed by: Michał Ogrodowczyk from Poland

Title: Bamboo. Are you happy?

Synopsis: Amidst the growing focus on environmental protection, this documentary explores the burgeoning bamboo industry in Guizhou through the eyes of scholars, entrepreneurs, families, and laborers. It reveals the unseen struggles of basic workers amidst rapid industrial growth, depicting their resilient journey through life, as steadfast as the bamboo they harvest.

Directed by: Mingyi Jing from China

Title: Lisbon, the wild within

Synopsis: As Lisbon has changed and grown over the past 3,000 years, the city has always prioritised the needs of its residents. And although it may seem an unlikely refuge for wildlife, many species have found the conditions they need to survive and raise their offspring. In the streets, rooftops and gardens of the Portuguese capital, from the wide Tagus estuary to the Monsanto Forest Park, we discover the nature that often goes unnoticed despite living on our doorsteps.

Directed by: Madalena Boto from Portugal

Title: To Know by Hands

Synopsis: To Know by Hands follows the working hands of two handicrafters in Troms and Finnmark. The film takes place in the summer of 2023, giving an insight into the use of natural materials in handicraft. At a cabin in Lyngen, we meet Trine, dyeing wool with materials found in the area. At a store in Sørkjosen, we meet the duojár Hilde, and get a peek into her use of fish skin as leather. Through a sensorial approach, the film encourages reflections on our relation to our natural environment. Furthermore, the film touches on themes such as the connection between cultural knowledge and relations to our environment.

Directed by: Margit Reppen from Norway

Title: SERMERSUAQ-the great ice-

Synopsis: Sermersuaq is a powerful documentary that offers an intimate perspective on climate change in the Arctic. It follows the stories of Michael, a hunter from Qaanaaq, the northernmost town of Greenland, and Marc, a scientist on a quest for truth. Different origins, same common purpose: preserving Sermersuaq, Greenland's great ice sheet.

Directed by: Patrizia Bruno from Italy

Title: FOREST RIVERS

Synopsis: Poland is in the group of countries threatened by water deficit. Forests are refuges of wild rivers today. Here we have a unique opportunity to observe still natural processes occurring in the natural environment. Polish foresters protect wetlands and carry out many small retention projects and sustainable forest management to protect such valuable biotopes.

Directed by: Sławomir Skupiński from Poland

Title: ENTROPY

Synopsis: The entire content of the film was completed by AIGC technology. Due to long-term pollution caused by humans, resources are scarce and diseases rampage. Humanity pins its hopes on the birth of silicon-based life, attempting to return to the past to save itself. However, the ruler, "General," decides to erase the sinful history of human pollution, hastening humanity's destruction instead. As rockets soar into space in search of new habitats, the rulers cannot escape the fate of being infected by viruses. Ultimately, carbon-based life perishes, and silicon-based life emerges. Faced with humanity's crimes, will silicon-based life be willing to save humanity? Or perhaps, is there a greater force controlling the cycle of destiny? Whether it's the demise of humanity or the birth of silicon-based beings...

Directed by: YuMeng Liu, WeiZhi Cao from China

Title: ARMEA

Synopsis: Logline: Through music and dance, Rotuman artists work with their elders to create new ceremonies and renew and revitalize stories of land and ocean. “If you listen to nature, it will lead the way…” Elder Gagaj Taimanav. Steeped in symbolism and no larger than a child’s hand, the diminutive bird known as the Armea is found in only one place on Earth: the Pacific island of Rotuma. After scores of performances around the world and years away from Rotuma, ARMEA opens as the dedicated dancers and musicians of Rako Pasefika make their long awaited return home to the island. Arriving by air yet received just as their seafaring predecessors were, the Rako team engages with creative elders in the hopes of revitalizing ancient stories that are in danger of being forgotten. As Rako prepares to perform a new production inspired by the totemic Armea, their relationships with elders, knowledge keepers, healers, artisans and cultural custodians reveal deep and reciprocal connections to this ancient land and to the immense ocean from which it rises. Both an offering to those who have guided the way — such as the hån lep he rua sacred women — and a promise to sustain sacred art forms for generations to come, ARMEA is an ode to all that is small yet sacred.

Directed by: Letila Mitchell from Fiji

Title: Roasted Chicken

Synopsis: One hot afternoon, Pedro goes out to feed his father's chicken Señora only to find out she is suffering from heatstroke. With no water and electricity, the young man needs to find a way to cool the chicken fast or risk losing her.

Directed by: Roland Cartagena from the Philippines

Title: Feeling the Apocalypse

Synopsis: A psychotherapist struggling with climate anxiety explores what it means to live in a dying world.

Directed by: Chen Sing Yap from Canada

Title: All We Have Left

Synopsis: An innocent daughter with a wish on her birthday finally finds out about the truth being kept by her overprotective father. It follows Lily and her father on her birthday, having a hopeful wish to finally explore the outside world that she can only see from the inside all her life. Nonetheless, her father tries his best to hide her from the harsh truth, but is he actually protecting her from it?

Directed by: Sean Tan Zheng Wei from Malaysia

Title: Space Station Village EP8: Miss You to the Stars

Synopsis: The story of the episode "Missing You to the Stars" is about the belief that is still alive in Taiwanese indigenous culture and how a Bunon older man deals with the pain after the death of a loved one by playing a traditional instrument for the deceased in a space station on a rainy night. The popular science animated series "Go Go Giwas: Space Station Village" presents the Taiwanese indigenous cultural content with science inside. Professor Li-Yu Fu, the Producer of the "Go Go Giwas", used the nearly 30 years of research achievements on Taiwan's indigenous science education as the story material.

Directed by: Yi Feng Kao from Taiwan

Title: The Clean Water Tank Project Mission

Synopsis: In less than 2 minutes you will learn something you did not know about drinking water. This very short film takes a close look at our drinking water and the work of the Ron Perrin Clean Water Tank Project, Inc. They promote and explain the need for cleaning water storage tanks and towers. Cleaning tanks and towers is often forgotten as the interior of the tank is simply out of sight and out of mind. Instead, the focus of many water utilities is on adding more chemical disinfectants to meet federal and state guidelines. Bacteria, protozoa, viruses, and other microbes can use the sediment at the bottom of storage tanks as a habitat to grow and eventually become a health concern. Our Mission: To promote the safe inspection & cleaning of water storage tanks and towers with 1) Publications, 2) Video projects, 3) Safety training, and 4) Support research to explain the dangers hidden in tank sediment and the need to remove it from tanks.

Directed by: Ron L Perrin from the United States