2013 Films

Environmental activism really began with the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 and precipitated an unexpected and galvanizing effect on the national psyche...

River Shorts and shown as part of the Rivers Program

Ray Turner, who lives on the Delaware River in Western New York, is the last man on the East Coast who still fishes for eels with an ancient stone weir.

Shown with THE KING'S RIVER, BANGLADESH: LAND OF RIVERS, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH US, and THE WATER TOWER. 

Part of the beauty of renewables is their availability: we all get some sun, wind or geothermal heat and we can harvest that energy...

Shown as part of the Rivers Program.

Featuring CHATTAHOOCHEE: FROM WATER WAR TO WATER VISION and POTOMAC: THE RIVER RUNS THROUGH US

Shown as part of the Rivers Program 

Take an Odyssean voyage of outward adventure and inner reflection to the Alaska Peninsula, a narrow frontier between warm and cold latitudes extending 500 miles from the Alaskan mainland... 

Ciné-Concert:  Marseille, The Old Port

A Marseille barmaid tries to flee her lover for another man in this spare, silent melodrama...

Shown with MARSEILLE WITHOUT SUN (MARSEILLE SANS SOLEIL). 

Join Us to Celebrate the 21th Anniversary of the Environmental Film Festival!

Contemporary Art, Dance, and Music * Wine, Beer, and a special FRESHFARM Markets cocktail * Hors d’oeuvre * Silent Auction

“There’s no Hispanic air. There’s no African-American air. There’s air! And if you breathe air – and most people I know do breathe air, then I would consider you an environmentalist,” as one advocate put it...

In Belgium's secluded Ardennes, where people live close to the land, a mystifying force is changing the natural order...

Animated Films For Pre-School Children, D.C. Public Library Program 
Suggested ages 2-5 years

Program includes RED HEN, HI! FLY GUY, A SEA TURTLE STORY, GOODNIGHT, GOODNIGHT, CONSTRUCTION SITE & HANGING AROUND.

Filmed over three years in Venice, Nsukka, Nigeria and the United States, this is a powerful portrait of Africa’s most widely acclaimed contemporary artist, El Anatsui... 

Shown as part of the Rivers Program 

Animated Films For School Age Children, D.C. Public Library Program 
Suggested Ages: 5-8 

Program includes A SEA TURTLE STORY, HELLO, I'M A NUTRIA, BUNTY'S TREE, SONG OF THE SPINDLE, HANGING AROUND, THE WINDMILL FARMER, and A DROP'S LIFE...

“I am singing about onion farming, bringing both suffering and joy.” So sings an onion farmer as he works his field in Galmi, Niger.

Shown with JANE'S JOURNEY and BENY, BACK TO THE WILD. 

You can find them deep in the jungles of Borneo, in the hills of Umbria and perhaps even in your own backyard. They are the fruit hunters... 

Through the story of a mason in Djenné, Komusa Tenapo, and his family, this documentary examines an African tradition of mud architecture in Mali... 

Shown as a part of In Search of Solutions and with CityStories Series. 

Shot over the past nine years by award-winning Brazilian documentary photographer Salgado during more than 30 different trips to distant corners of the globe, the black and white photographs...

Shown as part of the Rivers Program 

Two television producers and adventure travelers test their skills on an epic adventure, paddling down one of the world’s busiest, most polluted and most sacred rivers...

Shown with HOW I BECAME AN ELEPHANT.

Shown as part of the Rivers Program 

This is the story about the new rush to mine for uranium around the Grand Canyon and the advocates who are fighting back against it... 

Shown with WATERSHED: EXPLORING A NEW WATER ETHIC FOR THE NEW WEST.

A Selection from the 2012 United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival 

What happens when one industry has too much power? Politicians become pawns. Laws are created, prevented and sometimes broken. Regulations are bypassed...

Twilight touching down on a near-empty American townscape is the consistent theme of Gregory Crewdson's hyper-real photography... 

This event is canceled due to the death of Hugo Chávez