2013 Films

When young Chandani becomes determined to follow in her father’s footsteps and learn the secrets of the elephant whisperer passed down through generations of her family, she has to show extraordinary dedication to prove herself...

Environmental Film Festival Animated Retrospective

Enjoy some of the most popular animated films screened during the Festival’s 20 years!

Films shown include FOR THE BIRDS, THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES, OLD MAN AND THE SEA, and TURTLE WORLD

For the past 40 years, in a remote and harshly beautiful corner of northern Manitoba, Brian Ladoon has devoted his life to preserving and breeding an endangered species: the Qimmiq, Canada’s indigenous Eskimo dog...

Capturing the experience of African and Irish immigrants to Britain in the decades after World War II, this cine-poem is a layered, poignant meditation on human mass migration and its relationship to land use and culture...

Shown with SACK BARROW

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

Travel through time into the world of the Inuit on the isolated Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay in a film capturing the peril that the Sanikiluaq people are facing due to environmental and ecosystem devastation...

Poetically portrays the fading milieu of a pre-World War II factory near London during its final days of operation in 2010...

Shown with THE NINE MUSES

Leading scientists such as Daniel Pauly suggest that if we continue to catch and eat fish at the current rate, the oceans and seas will be empty within 40 years. The hunt for fish is an economic monster on the run...

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

Filmed over four years, the film connects the lives of individuals and communities involved in the complex and incredibly perilous lobster fishing industry...

Enjoy an afternoon with the family watching the Czech classic animated films of Zdeněk Miler, a renowned Czech animator, who created Krtek (Little Mole) in the 1950s...

Films shown include THE LITTLE MOLE IN THE CITY, THE LITTLE MOLE AND THE DUCKLINGS and THE LITTLE MOLE AND THE ROBOT

The Bahamas have played a key role in the global movement to protect sharks from extinction and marine protections to ensure that these magnificent creatures will help keep our environment healthy for generations to come...

Get an intimate glimpse into the lives of children who struggle to dream while working 12 to 14 hours a day, 7 days a week to feed America...

Shown as part of the multi-day, multi-venue Health and the Environment Film Series

For the eight seekers at the heart of this emotionally charged documentary, redemption may lie in the mysterious depths of the Amazonian rainforest. Nicola Dale has Parkinson’s disease, Joel Davis suffers from type-II diabetes, Jean Orraca is seriously depressed and John Wood has prostate cancer...

Shown as part of the Lucy Walker Retrospective

Oscar-nominated director Lucy Walker set out to make “a visual haiku about cherry blossoms” in Japan but changed her plans radically following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the country on March 11, 2011...

Winner of the Environmental Film Festival’s third annual Polly Krakora Award for artistry in film