Autosaurus rex Switzerland, 5,45 min. 2022 Director: Marcel Barelli
Among the different species that inhabit our planet, one stands out from the others by its power and its impact on ecosystems. It is the Autosaurus Rex!
Chimborazo Spain, 7 min. 2022 Director: Keila Cepeda
Chimborazo's ice pickers have long been subjected for years to the inclemency of the volcano, located in the Ecuadorian Andes. In exchange, they crush some of its ice to provide for their people. Nowadays, it would be an occupation on the verge of extinction if it wasn't for Baltazar Ushca, who despite of his age, walks to the Chimborazo glacier every day for hours to get large blocks of ice which he later sells in the nearest city.
In this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again.
Svetlana stares into the salt desert with her only eye. Gulshat runs an empty hotel. Captain records traces of the vanishing sea, and Sergei drives tourists across its bare, glittering seabed. The last people of Mo´ynoq who remember the original shore of drying Aral Sea… Their days are intertwined with memories of the glorious past of the fishing power and dreams of the return of the great water. The present is a cemetery of ships that will never set sail from the port again.
Nom d´une plante! France, 4.24 min. 2022 Director: Hervé Bressaud
An explorer lands by parachute in a very mineralized zone. Walking through it, his interest is in specimens that have been able to adapt to this seemingly hostile environment : wild sidewalk plants...
Hervé Bressaud
Nós Portugal, 5 min. 2021 Director: Nelson Fernandes
Nós is a short film of animation which mixes several stop motion techniques, proposing a journey through the conflicted human condition. War, loneliness, nature, crossings, fallen dreams are some of the recurring aspects in this animated poem on paper.
In 2031, due to global warming a young polar bear has to leave her home and moves to Zurich. Together with the other animals who have fled, she ekes out a living with odd jobs. But then she has a world-changing idea!
The Sprayer Iran, 8,45 min. 2022 Director: Farnoosh Abedi
In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants, either in public or private. So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how does a plant grow or look like, until one day one of the soldiers finds a seed buried deep down in the dust and his curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary.