2013 Films

As climate change threatens their water supply, a family of Himalayan nomads is torn between tradition and modernity...

Program includes FLETCHER AND THE SPRINGTIME BLOSSOMS, I WISH I WENT TO ECUADOR, AMAZONIA, SCAREDY SQUIRREL, & ALL IN THE WORLD

Clambering over rugged coastal headlands and dangling into their precipitous and little-known world, an inquisitive biologist encounters an Arctic that is surprisingly colourful and teeming with life, including prolific seabirds that represent some of Canada’s most spectacular wildlife...

Screening of TAKING ROOT: THE VISION OF WANGARI MAATHAI, Discussion and Reception

The late environmental, social and political activist Wangari Maathai earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her work with the Green Belt Movement, which she founded in Kenya in 1977 to encourage the planting of trees to protect the soil and provide wood for women to use for cooking and building...

What will it really take to go from the energies that built our world to the energies that will shape our future?

In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on celebrity tycoon Donald Trump as he buys up one of Scotland’s last wilderness areas to build a golf resort...