Every Friday the Eco Film Club gathers to watch a movie on ecological topics. Join us! Become a member and organize your own private club meetings once a week, watch the same movie we do and use the comments on the Eco Film Club site to discuss it afterwards.
Our Eco Film on Friday, March 8th will be Samsara. 2011 – 102 minutes. Directed by Ron Frickle, English. Winner of 1 International Award Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and…
On Friday, March 1st, we will screen A FILM BY MARC VELLA followed by a Q & A with Marc Vella Marc Vella started playing music when he was 5. At the age of 24, he put his piano on a trailer to go and discover the world. Being considered an eccentric did not put…
On Friday, February 22nd, at 7 pm as usual, we will screen Ωcéans as our weekly Eco Film. 2010 – 102 minutes. Directed by Jacques Perrin & Jacques Clauzaud, French w/ English Subtitles. watch the trailer in French only here and a short extract and making of clip further down. Traveling at 10 knots in…
Our Eco Film on Friday, February 15th at 7 p.m. will be Auroville, the Golden Bond towards Human Unity. 2011 – 52 minutes. Directed by Michèle Decoust, English. The film is so new that the only media available online is this 3 minute trailer: Auroville, a cosmopolitan town in the South-East of India, has been…
Our Eco Film on Friday, February 8th will be The Last Lions. 2011 – 88 minutes. Directed by Dereck Joubert, English. Winner of 2 Awards 50 years ago there may have been half a million lions. Today there may be less then 20,000. Filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert, Explorers-in-Residence for National Geographic, have made a…
Our next Eco Film on Friday, February 1st will be A Small Act. 2010 – 88 minutes. Directed by Jennifer Arnold, English Winner of 4 Awards, Nominated for 6 A young Kenyan’s life changes drastically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, after finishing his degree at Harvard and becoming a…
Our next Eco Film on Friday, January 26th, will be Chimpanzee. 2012 – 78 minutes. Directed by Alastair Fothergill & Mark Linfield, English. Oscar, a baby chimpanzee is enjoying his life with his mother in the jungles along the Ivory Coast. Without warning, young Oscar is tragically orphaned during an attack from a rival group…
On Friday, January 18th, our Eco Film will be Life in a Day. 2011 – 95 minutes. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. English Watch the trailer here and the full movie (with annoying ads) further down: Director Kevin Macdonald and producer Ridley Scott team up to offer this candid snapshot of a single day on planet…
On Friday, January 11th, we will screen two Eco Films: Smile Pinky and Born to be Wild. SMILE PINKY 2008 – 39 minutes. Directed by Megan Mylan, English. Watch the full movie here: Approximately thirty five thousand Indian children are born with cleft lips and palates every year. There are about 10 Lakhs Indians…
Our Eco Film on Friday, January 4th, 2013, will be Taste the Waste. 2010 – 88 minutes. Directed by Valentin Thurn. German. W/subtitles in English. A documentary from Germany about the worldwide destruction of food. Why do we throw away so much? And how can we stop this kind of waste? Amazing but true: On…
