Baigal Nuur - Lake Baikal
Alisi Telengut • 9 minutes • Canada/Germany • Language: Mongolian
The formation and history of Lake Baikal in Siberia are reimagined, featuring the voice of a Buryat woman who can still recall some words in her endangered Buryat-Mongolian language. The vocabularies from the voice recording of the Buryat woman re-vitalize the spiritual significance of the terrain and landscape associated with her mother tongue. The sharp decline in Buryat language proficiency in the local region could be linked to the ongoing colonial reality since three hundred years ago as well as the post-Soviet Russian policies in education
Smoke and Diamond
Bruno Villela, Fábio Bardella, Juliana Almeida • 5.5m • Brazil • 2023 • Language: English, Portuguese
In Catrimani Village (Brazilian Amazon), a Yanomami family is reunited after passing through dense smoke.
A Culinary Tale Of Greenland's Changing Climate
Dennis Johannes Kulunnguaq Møller • 6.5m • 2023 • Greenland • Language: Ganda
A hunter and climate specialist talk about the changing climate in Greenland, Greenlandic food and what stands to be lost due to the changing climate.
Entropy
Inuk Jørgensen • 10m • Greenland • 202 • Language: English, Kalaallisut
The vast Greenlandic ice sheet has been created over thousands of years but today climate change is threatening the close and sacred connection between the land moulded by ice and the Inuit who live there. Told from an Indigenous perspective the film celebrates Greenlandic mythology as much as it laments the nature we are all losing..
No Monastery No Village
Tashi Lhazom • 28m • 2024 • Nepal • Language: Eng.
Halzi village, in far north-western Nepal is a living museum, housing the 11th-century Halzi Rinchenling Buddhist Monastery, Unfortunately, the monastery lies just 6 and a half kilometers below a dangerous glacier that has already discharged destructive glacial lake outburst floods or GLOFS. Despite the danger, Buddhist monk Sonam and female yak herder Pema have chosen to stay in Halzi, along with 500 other community residents. They cannot imagine abandoning this ancient cultural treasure to its fate and believe correct religious observance will save the monastery. But glaciologists from the international research consortium ICIMOD have warned Halzi that time is running. The monastery’s religious leaders call a community meeting to decide what can be done.
Nittaituq
Camille Poirier, Mathilde Poirier, Flore Sergeant • 16m • 2023 • Canada • Language: Inuktitut, English
As they navigate between resilience and uncertainty, the inhabitants of Mittimatalik, an Inuit community on northern Baffin Island, share their reflections on the impact of global warming, painting a striking portrait of a changing Arctic landscape.
Spirit Twister
James Pakootas • 5m • 2023 • USA • English
“Spirit Twister” - Horse Culture is a tradition for The Colville Indian Reservation & Inchelium, Washington is the home of The Sinixt, a place where horse racing and Indian Relay are a way of life. In the spring of 2023, their entire community, with the help from racing families across their lands, came together for many years as they organized, raised funds, and during the summer of 2023, they made their dreams into a reality.
During their first day of racing, a tornado formed as their Ancestors swept across the newly built track & cleansed the grounds of Sugar Bowl as they gave their blessings during the inaugural "Chief's Race."