Our Eco Film on Friday, August 2nd will be Human Planet: Arctic – Life in the Deep Freeze. Documentary, 2011 – 59 minutes. Produced by BBC, Discovery, France TV. English w/ English subtitles. The Arctic is the harshest environment on Earth: little food grows, it’s dark for months on end, and temperatures stay well below […]
CONTINUE READINGOur Eco Film on Friday, July 26th will be Latcho Drom. Documentary, 2011 – 99 minutes. Dir. Tony Gatlif. France. W/English subtitles. The film is a musical journey that takes the viewer from east to west, from India to Spain, with stops along the way, to dramatize Romany’s nomadic culture. This journey takes place over […]
CONTINUE READINGOur Eco Film on Friday, July 19th will be another episode of Human Planet – Deserts. Documentary, 2011 – 60 minutes. Produced by BBC, Discovery. English w/ English subtitles. Watch the full episode here: We can survive for weeks without food, but only days without water: it is the essential element of life. Yet many […]
CONTINUE READINGOur Eco Film on Friday, July 12th will be Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. Documentary, 2010. 97 minutes. Dir: Joe Cross , Kurt Engfehr. USA, English w/English subtitles. An inspiring film that follows the 60-day journey of Australian Joe Cross across the United States as he follows a juice fast to regain his health under […]
CONTINUE READINGOur Eco Film on Friday, July 5th will be Human Planet – Oceans. Documentary, 2011 – 59 minutes. Produced by BBC and Discovery. English w/ English subtitles. Watch the full episode here: Uniquely in the animal kingdom, humans have managed to adapt and thrive in every environment on Earth. This series explores human settlements and […]
CONTINUE READINGOur Eco Film on Friday, June 28th will be Let’s Make Money. Documentary, 2008 – 110 minutes. Director- Erwin Wagenhofer. Austria. German w/English subtitles. Most of us don’t know where our money is. However, one thing is certain, it’s not in the bank to which we entrusted it. The bank and our money are already […]
CONTINUE READINGOur Eco on Friday, June 21st will be The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos. Documentary, 2008 – 78 minutes. Director- Matthew Aeberhard, Leander Ward. Disney Nature, France/US/UK. English. The film documents the lives of lesser flamingos on the isolated shores of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania, revealing the breeding and parenting habits of the […]
CONTINUE READINGOur Ecofilm on Friday, June 14th will be Werner Herzog’s The Wheel of Time (Kalachakra). Documentary, 2003 – 81 minutes. Director- Werner Herzog. Germany. English. Watch the full movie here: The word Kalachakra (Wheel of Time) refers to a very complex teaching and practice in Tibetan Buddhism. Although the teaching is very advanced and difficult […]
CONTINUE READINGOur next Eco Film on Friday, June 7th will be another episode of David Attenborough’s First Life – Conquest. 2010, 59 minutes. BBC. UK, English w/subtitles Following the Tree of Life, Attenborough’s journey continues in Canada’s Rocky Mountains, where fossils document an explosion in animal diversity never seen before or after. Travelling from there to […]
CONTINUE READINGOur Eco Film on Friday, May 31st will be Supermen of Malegaon. Documentary, 2008 – 70 minutes. Directed by Faiza Ahmed Khan. India. Hindi w/ English subtitles Supermen of Malegaon revolves around the passion which residents of Malegaon, a small town in Maharashtra, India, have for film making. The town is fraught with communal tensions, […]
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