2023 Official selections

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Directed by Chris Hutchens

Among Green Soldiers - a film based in Glen Feshie in the Cairngorms exploring the rewilding of the Scottish Highlands. Chris Hutchens and Christo Gallagher meet up with Ronan Dugan an ecologist on the Estate to explore the efforts being made to recover this Glen closer to what it once was before...

01:18
Directed by Michelle Sanders

Anthroposea: The Human Ocean explores how we are all fundamentally part of the ocean. The film aims to convey the importance of social science to conserving the ocean, with a mission to inspire and inform more people to consider these fields in their environmental work. The film was made durin...

Directed by Bryony Stokes

Living on the Edge is presented by passionate ultra-runner Emma Hazeldine and follows her as she makes her way around the Cornish coast, discovering how people in seaside communities are starting to face up to climate change impacts such as sea level rise, increased storms and coastal erosion.

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After years apart, childhood friends Emil and Jonathan reunite in hopes of rediscovering their friendship and freedom of their youth. Together they decide to leave the city and survive 90 days in the wild woods of Sweden. But without experience or knowledge, the dream of a playful and nature-roma...

Directed by Peter Dippel

Rethinking routines. Breaking with habits. Exploring new paths. “More than a route” is a documentary about finding a way to protect what we love: It follows top climber and ecologist Lena Müller on her new approach to mountain sports. Ecopoint is climbing car free, so Lena sets out with her grave...

Directed by Jordan Rowell, Duane Peterson III

Motivated by a desire to better understand his home watershed, Jordan Rowell embarks on a two week kayaking trip along the 120-mile length of Lake Champlain, stopping to talk to a wide range of characters about the future of their shared basin. Set 50 years after the passage of the Clean Water Ac...

Directed by Catherine Dunn

Have you ever discovered something unbelievable? Something life changing? But when you finally summon the words to tell someone, you're met with that classic line: 'but your generation will save us'. Not a Hero's Journey is a long distance adventurous protest to the COP26 climate summit. The clim...

00:45
Directed by Alice Aedy

Told from the perspective of indigenous activist Narubia Werreria, ‘The Ghost Rainforest’ follows a group of five indigenous leaders and activists from the Amazon, making an emotionally charged journey to the last remnant of a lost ecosystem; a desperately rare temperate rainforest habitat on the...

Directed by Euan Robinson

The uncertain future of skiing in Scotland has inspired Jamie Kunka to make sustainable skis out of wood. Based in his cabin in the Scottish Highlands, Jamie is the last ski maker in Scotland. Jamie began teaching himself how to make his wooden skis after watching a Vimeo Staff Pick by Wyatt Visu...

Directed by Tommy Wilkinson

A three day bike packing adventure in Northumberland, UK, exploring the state of English River Health, good times and a search for tight line on the River Breamish and Coquet. The rivers that cut paths through our land are the arteries that connect us to the wider world. From birth, we learn to l...

2023 Special selections

Directed by Arthur Neumeier

In Patagonia Films’ For the Love of the Sea, a family pioneers a movement to revive the Welsh coastline and a fishing industry that locals have depended on for decades. The documentary short follows Câr y Môr, the first community-owned regenerative ocean farm in Wales. Cultivating versatile crops...

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