All Living Things Environmental Film Festival: Films that will be screened this year

The festival now in its 4th year has roped in a great jury including Oscar winning filmmaker Kartiki Gonsalves, David Holmgren to co-originator of Permaculture in the world, director of Satyamev Jayate with Aamir Khan - Satyajit Bhatkal and Dr Mike Pandey, India’s most renowned environmental filmmaker.This year the festival has over 60 films from across 50 countries. The festival will take place this year from 1st to 10th December and will work on a hybrid module of in person screenings across cities in India and also a virtual leg of the festival. This year’s edition of ALT EFF also has films across International Feature Films, International Short Films, Indian Feature Films, Indian Short Films, Student Films and Animated Films. The selections for each of these programs exemplify the tenacity, commitment and hope of the creative community, as the climate emergency looms over us. This year the line up includes films like We are Guardians which is produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, Deep Rising produced and narrated by Jason Momoa, Dia Mirza backed and narrated film No Water No Village and many others. Some of the most interesting films this year include the following: Deep Rising - Produced and Narrated by Aquaman Actor, Jason Mamoa

Narrated and produced by Jason Momoa, Deep Rising illuminates the vital relationship between the deep ocean and sustaining life on Earth. The documentary also follows mining startup The Metals Company, as it pursues funding, public favour, and permission from the International Seabed Authority to mine wide swaths of the Pacific Ocean floor. We are Guardians - Produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and Academy Award winner, Fisher Stevens

We Are Guardians follows Indigenous forest guardian Marçal Guajajara and activist Puyr Tembé in the Amazon Rainforest as they fight to protect their territories from deforestation. Through intimate, character focused storytelling, the film brings the issues to the forefront — from the science of the Amazon Rainforest and its pivotal role in our global climate stability to the economic drivers of deforestation, the impact of which ripples out far beyond the boundaries of the Amazon itself. Pleistocene Park Seeking no one’s help and asking nobody’s permission, Russian geophysicist Sergey Zimov and his son Nikita are gathering any large woolly beast they can get their hands on, and transporting them, by whatever low budget means they can contrive, to the most remote corner of Siberia. They call their project Pleistocene Park. The goal: restore the Ice Age “mammoth steppe” ecosystem and avoid a catastrophic feedback loop leading to runaway global warming. Can two Russian scientists stave off a worst case scenario of global environmental catastrophe and reshape humanity’s relationship with the natural world? The Recycling Myth As the plastic pollution crisis has become an international scandal, the biggest consumer goods brands on earth have declared they have a solution: recycling. But our plastic packaging is still more likely to end up being burned or dumped than recycled. We show how the oil, packaging and consumer goods industries spin the recycling fairytale to allow them to continue polluting without consequence. Dear Future Children - By the Hot Docs Director Winner Franz Bohm Dear Future Children is a documentary film directed by Franz Böhm about young activism worldwide. The German-British-Austrian co-production provides insights into the lives of three young activists from Hong Kong, Uganda and Chile and examines the impact on their daily lives. Against the Tide - Nominee of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2023

Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen from Mumbai are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different paths to provide for their struggling families. The Leopard’s Tribe

The film documents the protests against the Aarey metro car shed project in Maharashtra Mumbai authorities plan to axe thousands of trees to expand a mass transit system. Home to the 10,000-strong Warli tribe, a scuffle unfolds to protect the forest and the leopard the tribe worships. No Water No Village - Narrated by actress and climate activist, Dia Mirza Directed by Munmun Dhalaria, this documentary unveils the harsh reality of how climate change is threatening livelihoods in the picturesque yet vulnerable landscapes of the Spiti Valley and Zanskar. The film introduces audiences to the scientists and activists working tirelessly to find local solutions and highlights the urgent need for collective action.