One Day, Everything Will be Free Free conference & documentary preview With Aviram Rozin, founder of Sadhana Forest Auroville Saturday March 16th, 7 pm Salle “Sapiens”, Rue du Mérinos, 1 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Transition Towns Brussels, Biomimicry Europa and Chaordic Design, organize, in collaboration with the Commune of Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode, a conference by Aviram Rozin in Brussels, founder…
Our Eco Film on Friday, March 22nd will be Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood. 2008 – 66 minutes. Directed by Adriana Barbaro & Jeremy Earp, English Watch the full movie here: Each year, billions of dollars are spent to market products to children. The latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience are used to…
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…
Sadhana Forest Kenya is fundraising in order to create long-term food security with thousands of Samburu families. These families suffer from severe malnutrition and related illnesses. By setting up a large tree nursery with indigenous, food bearing trees, and training the local community in tree planting and water conservation, they will be able to lead…
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…
