Outgrow the System, directed by Cecilia Paulsson and Anders Nilsson, explores innovative economic ideas replacing today's resource-draining model. Amid humanity's crisis, these pioneers present new perspectives with the potential to transform the world, offering solutions for sustainability, justice, and a resilient future.

Outgrow The System

Outgrow the System, directed by Cecilia Paulsson and Anders Nilsson, explores innovative economic ideas replacing today's resource-draining model. Amid humanity's crisis, these pioneers present new perspectives with the potential to transform the world, offering solutions for sustainability, justice, and a resilient future.

An emerging crisis in one of the last remaining rainforests in Central America ignites a heroic mission in PATROL. When illegal cattle ranchers decimate large swaths of rainforest, indigenous rangers join forces with an American conservationist and undercover journalists to expose a wealthy rancher, his government connections, and widespread deforestation.

Patrol

A rural community wakes up to a crime scene in the middle of the forest. Little by little, a series of previous situations show us the conflicts that happened in the same place.

Where trees weep

Poachers and climate change are wiping out the fine clam and the slimy clam in the Galician estuaries. A group of shellfish gatherers on foot fight to remedy this imbalance. A hard work whose tradition is extinguished with each generation.

A tarea

The Araucária tree and the Xokleng people are one. To ensure survival, a small family takes on the mission of saving their sacred tree - an act of love, resistance, and faith in generations yet to come.

Zag-Tall Trees Need Deep Roots

Lost Songs of Sundari follows the myth of a legendary ferryboat and its ferrywoman, once central to Mumbai's creeks. As modern bridges erase ferries and fishing traditions, the Koli community's deep connection to the sea fades, with Sundari surviving only in songs and stories.

Lost Songs of Sundari

In a dystopian world, the Girl breaks her ceramic pot, which holds a secret within. The breaking of the pot opens portals to a parallel universe and the girl enters a time of transformation in which the creation of a new world is finally possible.

The Girl and The Pot

Over 15 years, Chasing Time follows James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey, capturing glaciers vanishing and providing visual evidence of climate change. Reuniting with the Emmy-winning Chasing Ice team, it concludes their epic work, reflecting on time, mortality, and intergenerational hope.

Chasing Time

Damon Gameau, award winning filmmaker behind 2040 and That Sugar Film, takes eight kids on the ultimate school excursion: a road trip across Europe to meet with powerful leaders and find solutions to our greatest ecological challenges, from the unique perspective of youth.

Future Council

In the early 20th century, Japanese scholar Abe Masanao filmed clouds worldwide. A century later, scientists gather in Barbados to study clouds - mysteries and their climate role. Through discoveries and setbacks, locals and climatologists reflect on the timeless fascination clouds inspire.

The cloud people

The Taiga forest, covering 17% of Earth and sustaining Mongolian nomads, faces biodiversity loss from illegal hunting and mining. In 2012, Mongolia created Red Taiga Park. Former hunter Jal Tumursukh leads rangers, uniting communities to protect this fragile, life-giving forest.

Mongolia, Valley of the bears

Mikuba carries us into the cobalt veins of Kolwezi, where artisanal and small-scale miners fiercely guard their ancestral heritage amid the global green energy race. Through Mama Leance's journey and her encounter with Master Elder Kangalele, the film unveils the spiritual and human dimensions of resilience.

Mikuba

The documentary 'STEALING GIANTS' exposes the shocking illegal trade in live elephants smuggled from Laos to China and the United Arab Emirates. Animal activist Karl Ammann and director Laurin Merz reveal the dark underbelly of a world where corruption and profit triumph over wildlife conservation.

STEALING GIANTS

Europe's last wild forests are in danger due to heavy logging for commercial use. Can they be protected before it's too late? In Romania, journalist Max Ihlenburg follows activists challenging the wood industry's greenwashing, while scientist Ria reveals the critical role of primary forests in fighting climate change.

Blood Wood

Terry, an American veteran in Baja, forged a remarkable bond with Willy, a 22-foot manta ray. Their dives together turned Terry into an unlikely conservationist. Now in his 80s, he sets sail on one final voyage-seeking Willy, and perhaps peace, closure, and farewell.

The Last Dive

An inspiring story of an unlikely yet powerful friendship between two Indigenous women in one of the most isolated corners of the Himalayas. Conservationist Tshiring Lhamu Lama mentors 17-year-old Tenzin Bhuti Gurung, who is desperate to escape a forced marriage, as they search for endangered snow leopards.

Snow Leopard Sisters

In a forest near Barcelona, an old shepherd and his flock live next to a high-tech laboratory for animal experimentation. As he battles a bone disease and watches his profession vanish, scientists work on the Covid vaccine. Fauna reflects on the ties between humans, animals, and science.

Fauna

Teenagers Birta and Selma spend their nights rescuing pufflings on a remote Icelandic island, guiding them safely to sea after they mistake harbour lights for the moon. Puffling is a coming-of-age story of responsibility, resilience, and the delicate ties binding human life to the natural world.

Puffling

Battling deep depression, Jaeyoun returns to her roots on the island of Marado, South Korea, to visit her family of female free divers known as haenyeo. To her surprise, she finds a connection to nature and her ancestors that literally saves her life.

Daughter of the Sea

Fairbourne, UK has been told that by 2054 the village will be decommissioned and left to the sea. As scientists test coastal defenses in a lab, villagers on the frontline of the climate crisis confront an uncertain future as the UK's first climate refugees.

Frontier Town

In the fastest-warming place on Earth, two friends and their polar-bear-guard dog explore the tiny, fat Svalbard reindeer thriving amid climate change. But through their close encounters, they wonder-are these positive signs, or is this the end of innocence for these extraordinary Arctic creatures?

Reindalen

Kuwarddewardde, known today as Arnhem Land, Australia, is home to the Bininj Nawarddeken. Colonisation disrupted traditional land management and resulted in destructive wildfire. Ngarridurndeng Kured (We Going Home Now) follows Dean, his family and the Indigenous fire rangers he leads into the heart of Kuwarddewardde.

Ngarridurndeng Kured (We Are Going Home Now)

As seconds turn to minutes, and minutes to years, the relentless erosion of the Sittaung River in Myanmar steadily devours the land. This documentary captures the villager's resilience as they rebuild their lives, wondering how much longer their village and livelihoods can endure by the river.

Bit by Bit

A young couple in a long-distance relationship imagine themselves as three different endangered species - Cameron Highland Sticky Frog, Proboscis Monkey, and Great Hornbill. Viral-meme-turned-film combines scripted drama with wildlife sequences for a refreshing cross-genre take on natural history and endangered species.

Would You Still Love Me If I was a Sticky Frog?

Kentaro follows a 7 year old boy in the remote mountain community of Kawakami, Japan, where his birth-first in the village in 25 years-brings new energy to a dwindling village. His presence symbolises renewal, inspiring hope for tradition, connection, and a future amidst population decline.

Kentaro

An urgent portrait of the people of the Zanskar valley and their struggle to survive extreme living conditions aggravated by climate change

The Ice Builders

In this fictional satire, an aging activist wages a solitary struggle against the expansion of an oil refinery in his tiny fishing village. All the while the other villagers are infectiously united in their indecisiveness between sustainable change and short-term social security.

WHEN THE WIND RISES

Dooars is the geographical corridor between India and Bhutan at the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas. Filmed over three and a half years, it captures remarkable biodiversity and human-wildlife stories. It tells of a rare coexistence between past and future, the evolving human-wildlife relationship in the Dooars.

The Dooars World

In Dhawa Doli Wildlife Sanctuary's buffer zones in Rajasthan, farmland encroaches on wild lands. Blackbucks and chinkaras face decline from fence injuries and feral dog attacks. Sharvan Patel steps in as their guardian-mobilising his community, building water holes, rescuing deer-yet the fight continues.

Keeper of the Last Herd

After beach goes missing, a fisherman drags his boat into the city, leaving his estranged daughter to face the consequences of his actions.

Dama, a farmer from a village being poisoned by the Uranium mines, tries his best to get his daughter married but pays a heavy price for the atomic hunger of the country right before the 1998 Pokharan nuclear test.

Jadugoda

With only 2,500 red pandas remaining in the wild, climate change and habitat loss threaten their survival. Follow the success and challenges of a breeding program aiming to reintroduce these endangered creatures to their native forests in India and Nepal.

Seeing Red: Saving Red Pandas

Waste management challenges in Bangalore are exemplified by the Mavallipura landfill. From 2003 to 2012, over 1 million tonnes of waste were dumped, prompting community protests. Decades of advocacy led to legal reforms, highlighting the ongoing struggle for dignity among Karnataka's sanitation workers.

Waste and The City - The Mavallipura Landfill Story

In Urur Olcott Kuppam, fisher elder S. Palayam records daily ocean data, blending faith and science. Partnering with researcher Nityanand Jayaraman, he co-founded "Science of the Seas". His youth story, animated by shadow puppeteer Muthuchandran Rao, celebrates traditional knowledge in a changing world.

Seaspeaker

A silent revolution is unfolding in the agriculturally distressed regions of Maharashtra,India. Through new farming practices based on agroecology, marginalised women farmers are challenging societies oppressive structures and bringing equity to their lives.

One Seed at a Time

In a near-future Mumbai, mothers stop lactating, and the state forbids feeding others children. Urvashi, a widowed fisherwoman with an infant, survives as a milk donor. As economic collapse leaves only the wealthy able to buy milk, her fate changes when she finds an abandoned baby.

Genesis

In a Maharashtrian village, seven year old Vithu feels the threat to his family's ancestral mango farm from the bullet train project. While his father dreams of the city and his uncle clings to farming roots, Vithu takes action that forces the family to confront loss and rediscover unity.

Panha

Choosing the Alternative Way, set against today's throwaway culture, follows designers Sonali and Dhara as they trace a path where circularity guides creation. Collecting discarded materials, they reimagine waste into useful forms. Their living library embodies care, renewal, and the endless cycles of nature.

Studio Alternatives - The Circle of Things

Unlike most rivers in India, the Chambal was never worshipped. Legend called it cursed. Yet the myth that kept people and industry away also kept her wild and clean. Today, home to over 400 species, she shapes the lives of creatures that inhabit this unique ecosystem.

Boon of the Curse: Unholy Chambal

Down The Drain is a documentary-fiction film about Bangalores sewage, told from the perspective of a woman who accidentally flushes her watch down the toilet. Using mixed media, the film follows the watch's journey and reveals the pipes, people, and conversations that shape the city's hidden sewage system.

Down The Drain

Set in Jharkhand's rapidly industrializing landscape, Ladai Chhodab Nahi follows three Adivasi women-Sitamani, Bigan, and Basanti-as they confront mining's fallout. Amid displacement and ecological loss, they rise as leaders and knowledge keepers, resisting erasure while envisioning futures rooted in dignity, justice, and resilience.

Ladai Chhodab Nahin (Fight Shall Continue)

The Mushroom Keepersi, explores the deep ties between fungi and the Khasi and Garo of Meghalaya. Through conversations with elders, it reflects on the intertwined loss of forests and ancestral knowledge, embodying the Foundation's mission of research, education, and conservation.

The Mushroom Keepers

In Bhopal, TINSA's Urban Tiger Volunteer Program trains locals to track and protect 96 tigers with camera traps, pugmark protocols, and night patrols. The documentary celebrates citizen-led conservation and the possibility of coexistence between big cats and human communities in India's urban and peri-urban landscapes.

Urban Tiger Volunteers of Bhopal

Abundance: Living with a Forest (2024) follows Lotha forager Zareno in Khumtsü, tracing edible plants from forest to market in Wokha. The film reflects on impending loss facing Indigenous communities, while honoring foraging practices, renewal of values, courage, and sustainable traditions in the Eastern Himalayas.

Abundance: Living with a Forest

The Omkareshwar Dam submerged villages and forests, once rich with herbs and wild edibles. The film follows Takal Singh and his family in search of their beloved green "chhiri", now rare, capturing their foraging journey and the memories entwined with a vanishing landscape.

What's in my basket: Chhiri

KHARVAN, set in Goa's 3,000-year-old Khazan wetlands, follows the smooth-coated otter, a species thriving in this human-shaped ecosystem. Using live action and animation, the film reveals deep ties between nature, culture, and belief in Rakhandars, spirit guardians of the land, reflecting on coexistence, ecological fragility, and ancestral stewardship.

Kharvan- in search of the Elusive one

The Butterfly Man follows Isaac Kehimkar, a passionate naturalist who has spent his life protecting India's butterflies. Born in Mumbai, one of the world's most crowded cities, Isaac creates butterfly gardens and teaches children. His story unfolds with the butterfly's metamorphosis, a transformation both remarkable and rarely seen up close.

The Butterfly Man

Karma Gaabo Re offers an intimate glimpse into the Baiga tribe of Madhya Pradesh, displaced from their ancestral forests yet holding on to echoes of their heritage. Through songs, dances, and rituals, the film captures a resilient people whose deep connection with land and tradition continues to endure.

Karma Gaabo Re

For decades, Mumbai has witnessed episodes of human-leopard conflict. At Sanjay Gandhi National Park, the Rescue Team works tirelessly to protect both people and the voiceless leopards. This film reveals the unseen world of the SGNP Rescue Centre, where dedication, compassion, and tragedy shape lives beyond the conflict.

Beyond the Conflict

Along California's coastline, once-thriving kelp forests are vanishing, consumed by unchecked sea urchin populations and erratic environmental shifts. In Monterey Bay, home to one of the nation's largest marine protected areas, scientists, conservationists, and volunteers race against time to restore this vital habitat before it disappears completely.

Keepers of the Kelp Forest

In Indias Charotar region, people live in harmony with marsh crocodiles, India's largest freshwater predator. With fewer than ten attacks in ten years, this coexistence is remarkable. Phir Bhi follows these communities to understand their deep tolerance, their challenges, and how collective care shapes a shared future with wildlife.

Phir Bhi (Even So)

The film traces the memories of the Amu Darya, a river once flowing to the Aral Sea. Through voices of Uzbek and Karakalpak communities, it captures the loss of water, the resilience of people, and the USSRs transformation of a vast lake into the world's youngest desert.

Amu Darya: River to a Missing Sea

Under a scorching sun, Charlie guards a seedy motel with her cousin Jess, who lounges in her deckchair. The teens bicker endlessly as Charlie dreams of the seaside. On the radio, a collapsology researcher predicts ecological collapse, which abruptly erupts into reality.

Ashen Sun

Amid endless weedy fields, a hidden garden is lovingly tended by the Gardener. When a fierce storm floods it with weed seeds, it turns into a life-and-death battle for the garden's survival.

Weeds

This film traces the cultural, spiritual, and ecological significance of Deccani wool through the story of Balu Mama and his revered flock. Exploring resilient sheep, shepherding traditions, and wool's sacred role, it contrasts a rich heritage with modern neglect, asking if past wisdom can inspire renewed value for pastoral life.

Desi Oon

On Makar Sankranti in Uttarakhand, children string fried sweets into garlands to feed crows. Bhanu, eager to eat, is stopped by his grandmother and hears from his grandfather the ritual's story. The Garland of Ghughuti weaves food, family, folklore, and the playfulness of cultural tradition.

Ghughuti Ki Maala (The Garland of Ghughuti)

Kawauso tells the story of a girl who encounters a Japanese river otter. They attempt to communicate, but the otter is already extinct. Through this poignant meeting, the film reflects on modern society's losses and invites viewers to consider the sacrifices behind them.

kawauso

A city-weary blackbird finds a private garden and tries to serenade a female resident, only to realize the quiet he sought is still elusive. Straining his voice to be heard, he faces challenges and must navigate the struggle to reclaim his song.

Cacophony

How Water Makes Climate portrays the crucial connection between water cycles and climate. The animation shows what a healthy intact water cycle is, the consequences of its destruction, and how our broken cycle can be restored. It inspires youth to learn about water and take action in communities.

HOW WATER MAKES CLIMATE

In Tamil Nadu, Kavitha and Bharathidasan nurture over 125,000 native seedlings annually, focusing on rare and lesser-known species. Through their plant nurseries, they strive to restore biodiversity in rapidly urbanising landscapes, offering hope and preserving the diversity of flora that modern development threatens to erase.

Reviving Rare Native Plants - One Seedling at a time

In drought-stricken Mann Desh, Maharashtra, the Dhangar community faces acute scarcity. Water arrives once in twelve days, forcing farmers to sell cattle and children to migrate. Village manager Panda struggles to supply hundreds of homes, while India advances Mann Desh still waits for a dependable glass of water.

We are spending the entire day waiting for water

In Bihar, over 5000 fisherwomen face violent opposition and systemic oppression as they fight for rights to village ponds. They confront patriarchy, caste abuse, and sexual slavery. Guided by social worker Viji Srinivasan, the women recount their struggle, revealing the courage and resilience required to challenge entrenched injustice.

How Mallah Women Fought Caste Hierarchy and Sex Slavery

This film explores the human cost of conservation in the Sundarbans through Urmila Sardar's story. After witnessing a tiger drag her husband away, she continues fishing to survive. It highlights the clash between biodiversity protection and indigenous livelihoods, emphasizing the imperative of social justice in conservation.

This Jungle is Ours

This investigative video, filmed with support from the Pulitzer Center, reveals how the Republic of Congo issued destructive mining permits in protected forests meant for carbon credits under a World Bank climate program. Shot in the Sangha region, it exposes environmental degradation, river pollution, and the exclusion of Indigenous communities.

Gold mines damage green goals in Republic of Congo

This film tells the story of three generations of Kheria Sabar women resisting cultural erasure. While history recalls punitive violence against Sabar men, it foregrounds women's invisible wounds, showing how climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and migration extend state violence with a deeply gendered impact.

After The World Ends... It Begins Again

A public health nightmare has been burgeoning Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh. This investigative documentary exposes arsenic contamination, told through villagers, medical experts, and environmentalists. Residents suffer debilitating and sometimes fatal ailments, while successive governments offer little help, leaving the community to recount stories of neglect and apathy.

When Water Kills: The Arsenic Crisis in Eastern Uttar Pradesh

In 2016, Adani Green built the world's largest solar park in Ramanathapuram, displacing farmland and water resources. Many villagers migrated. This documentary follows those who stayed, examining the socio-economic impacts of large solar projects and exploring what a just transition for affected communities could entail.

Beneath The Panel: The Hidden Losses of India's Solar Parks

Set in Assam's Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary, this film traces the impact of railway electrification and oil exploration on India's only ape. Through reportage, interviews, and visual storytelling, the film examines the fragile balance between conservation, local communities, and the pressures of rapid development in this biodiverse forest.

A Sanctuary in the Crossfire

Almost 40% of all garbage still ends up in landfills. They cause many diseases and are a massive driver of climate change, releasing methane. The solutions vary from high tech modern landfilling to simple waste segregation and composting.

Eco India: We need to fix landfills - here's how

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