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Film Festivals and the environment
We've taken a look around the Northwest Film Forum and the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) and found some really great movies that relate to conservation and the environment. The Puget Sound area gets a little crazy for film this time of year so be sure these get added to your busy movie-going schedule before they sell out.
Be sure to contact us if we missed a must-see eco-film and we'll add it to the list.
Otter 501
(at the Northwest Film Forum)
A storm grows, a sea otter is separated from its mother, and a young woman bound for adventure blows into town." Plays this weekend (May 18-20th) at the Northwest Film Forum.
SIFF launches this weekend as well. Be sure to check out these films:
The Atomic States of America
Based on Kelly McMasters’s memoir about growing up in a nuclear-reactor community, this powerful and revealing film does an outstanding job of opening our eyes to the truth behind nuclear power and the untold risks. …
Beasts of the Southern Wild
First-time filmmaker Benh Zeitlin won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for his critically acclaimed surrealistic tale of six-year-old Hushpuppy, who refuses to leave her home in the Louisiana Delta as an environmental apocalypse descends. …
The Central Park Effect
Nearly 38 million people visit Central Park every year. How many bring binoculars? Jeffrey Kimball talks to New York City’s birders (and other eccentrics) with a backdrop of spectacular wildlife footage from this unlikely locale. …
Chasing Ice
With his breathtaking time-lapse imagery and stunning landscapes, National Geographic photographer James Balog documents the rapid and alarming shrinkage of the world’s glaciers, warning of dire consequences for the planet. …
City World
Over images of a deserted suburban Orlando, a young boy relates historical legends of mankind defying nature and imagines apocalyptic futures, suggesting themes of familial dissolution. …
Future Days
Denizens of Los Angeles—a city known for cultivating and crushing dreams—consider their future in uncertain times. …
Future Weather
This multigenerational drama compares the intricacies of climate change science with the equally complex dynamics between an anxious young girl and her caustic grandmother as they cope with the disappearance of the girl’s mother. …
The Great Bear
After discovering a magical 1,000-year-old bear in a forbidden forest, two kids must match wits with a crazed hunter to save both the bear and his forest home. …
I Wish
A moving study of two brothers, divvied up by divorced parents, who dream of reuniting their family through a bullet-train line. A children’s film with a touch of adult supervision that miraculously holds a lifetime’s range of experience. …
The Ice Pond
Long after refrigeration made harvesting ice obsolete, the Høvik family of Norway kept their business thriving until it just melted away. …
The Last Reef 3D
This IMAX journey plunges you into the deep to explore the beauty and mysteries of the world’s fragile reef ecosystems: a distant yet parallel world, with living cities undeniably connected to our own human communities. …
Living Tiny
Three Californians who seek an alternative to traditional construction explore a new vision of home. …
The Mirror Never Lies
The Indonesian Wakatobi archipelago and the Bajo tribal community provide the foundation for this coming-of-age tale of 12-year-old Pakis, in this stunningly beautiful debut film that is both global and highly personal. …
True Wolf
TRUE WOLF is the story of a wolf called Koani, who was born in captivity. With the help of her human companions, she became an ambassador for her species, traveling the country to help raise awareness about wolves. …
Valley of Saints
Boatman Gulzar plans to leave his impoverished Kashmir Valley village until he meets a young woman who’s researching the local lake. Musa Syeed’s luminous intertwining of personal and environmental conflicts won Sundance’s World Cinema Audience Award. …
Wiebo's War
This document of the conflict between an isolated landowner and the energy industry asks the question: Is Wiebo Ludwig a cult leader and eco-terrorist, or a devoted Christian protecting his family? …
Winter Nomads
Shepherds Carole and Pascal move through French-speaking Switzerland with 800 sheep, encountering modern lifestyles along the way. Exceptional photography and sound design transports you to this caravan’s trek. …
Xingu
With sweeping landscapes and sumptuous cinematography, tells the saga of how the quest to create Brazil's first indigenous-only national park ended up pitting brother against brother. …
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