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Let the Daylight Into the Swamp
This film is the filmmaker’s whimsically reconstructed story of his francophone grandparents and their dramatic personal lives in a remote Canadian northwoods logging camp.
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Rainforest: The Limit of Splendour
This film follows the filmmaker to the remote temperate rainforest of Vancouver Island, and shows how modern logging, in contrast to indigenous forestry practices, is leading to its rapid extinction.
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Sumidouro: Good-Bye River
This award-winning film examines the lives of 5000 people from 42 riverside communities a year after they have been displaced by the construction of the Irapé Dam and hydroelectric power plant in Brazil.
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Das grüne Gold der Inkas [Big Spuds, Little Spuds]
This film examines the effects of mass monoculture farming and traces Idaho potatoes back to the Peruvian highlands.
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The Human Scale
This film criticizes the twentieth-century urban planning model of megacities and argues for a return to a human scale of design.
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When China Met Africa
This film captures the rise of China’s influence in Africa and in Zambia in particular, through the lives of three individuals: a Chinese entrepreneur, a project manager for a Chinese multinational and the Zambian Minister for Commerce, Trade and Industry.
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Nothing Like Chocolate
This film follows the founder of a grassroots chocolate cooperative in Grenada. It reveals the benefits of a cooperative model in an industry marred by corporate greed, trafficking, and slavery.
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Wiebo's War
This film follows a Christian community and its leader as they resist the oil and gas industry and its plans for expansion into their land.
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After Winter, Spring
This film follows the old farming community of Périgord, a region in southwest France, as it tries to navigate its future in the modern world.
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Bringing It Home
This film examines the environmental impact and uses of hemp, from nutrition to construction.