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.
On Friday, March 23rd, our Eco Film will be Ganges: Daughter of the Mountains. BBC. Documentary. English. 49 minutes. A documentary which journeys deep into the Himalayas to the source of the Ganges, providing a glimpse into the natural and spiritual worlds that swirl around India’s most sacred river. Tracing the river through diverse landscapes…
Our next Eco Film, screening Friday March 16th at 7 p.m., will be March of the Penguins. Genere: Documentary. 2005. English. 80 minutes. National Geographic Awarded Best Documentary 2005 at Broadcast Film Critics Association, National Board of Review, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Las Vegas Film Critics Association Each winter, alone in…
Our Eco Film on Friday, March 9th, will be Waste Land. Genre: Documentary. 99 minutes. 2010 / Directed by: Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, and Joao Jardim / Awards: Won Best International Documentary at Sundance Film Festival, and Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of…
Our next Eco Film on Friday March 2nd will be We Feed the World. Genre: Documentary. Director: Erwin Wagenhofer. Austria, 2005. 95 minutes Watch the full movie here: Winner of the best documentary award at the Guild of German Art House Cinemas and two awards at the Motovun Film Festival Every day in Vienna the…
The next Friday Eco Film at Sadhana Forest will be Plastic Planet, being screened February 24th at 7 p.m. as usual. Documentary, 94 minutes, English, 2009 – Directed by: Werner Boote Watch the trailer: We live in the age of plastic. It’s cheap and practical, and it’s everywhere – even in our blood. But is…
Our next Eco Film on Friday February 17th will be Buck. Genre: Documentary. 2011. English. 88 minutes. Director: Cindy Meehl Nominated for Best Documentary Feature 2012 by Critics Choice Award. Won National Board of Review Award for Top Five Documentaries 2011.Won Golden Eye Award for Best International Documentary Film 2011. Buck, a richly textured and…
Our next Eco Film on Friday February 10th will be The Last Mountain. Genre: Documentary. 2011. English. 95 minutes. Director: Bill Haney The fight for the last great mountain in America’s Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm…
Our next Eco Film on Friday February 3rd will be Marc Vella – The Sand Piano. Marc Vella pianist, composer, writer, and poet has decided to travel around the world with his piano. In this journey he goes with his Loving Caravan to Mauritania, Marocco, Senegal and he plays his piano at the streets and…
Next Friday’s Eco Film, screening January 27th at 7 p.m., will be Cuba: The Accidental Eden. Genre: Documentary. 2010. English. 52 minutes. PBS Nature Cuba may have been restricted politically and economically for the past 50 years, but its borders have remained open to wildlife for which Cuba’s undeveloped islands are an irresistible draw. While…
Next Friday, January 13th, our Eco Film will be Force of Nature. Genere: Documentary. 2010. English. 93 minutes. Director: Sturla Gunnarsson Scientist Dr. David Suzuki, a leading environmentalist in Canada, tells many reasons why he and we should care about the environment. With the human population growing exponentially and humans having increasingly longer life expectancies,…
