ALAMOA (BRASIL)
Iana Cossoy Paro (writer), Flavio Botelho (writer, director)
The project explores the tensions and connections between scientific and magical thinking in the context of climate change.
AL DENTE (SLOVAKIA)
Peter Veverka (producer), Michal Stasak (writer, director)
Production company: AZYL Production s.r.o. (SLOVAKIA)
Milan returns home to bury his father, but he is forced to confront his neo-Nazi hatred.
APPLES’ KIN (CANADA)
Alice Manieri (writer, director)
Set centuries after climate change has occurred, explore the biological consequences of prolonged isolation in a static environment - such as the loss of genes - and the vital interconnection between species, which is the essence of a flourishing ecosystem. ANIMATION
A SONG OF FLOWERS (INDIA)
Shubham Negi (co-writer, director), Sourav Yadav (co-writer, director)
Soma Helang explores how the climate crisis doesn’t just destroy land and livelihoods, but slowly unravels the social, emotional, and cultural fabric of an indigenous, polyandrous Himalayan family.
DIVE (UK)
Katie Hodgkin (producer), Will Peppercorn (writer, director)
Production company: Steel Made Films (UK)
An exploration into different generational views around the climate crisis.
FINDING SHADE (TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO)
Jian Hennings (co-writer, director), Sophie Walcott (co-writer, producer)
Production company: Irmãos Guerra Filmes - (BRASIL)
It's a Caribbean social realist film with surrealist elements exploring environmental colonialism, Caribbean masculinity, nature as judge and tangible sacrifice.
IGARAPÉ (BRASIL)
Lara Carmo (director), Rita Piffer (writer)
A young girl's spiritual journey to reconcile her Amazonian identity with a mystical call from the living waters of the Igarapé.
KLOE (SPAIN)
Hugo Santa Cruz (writer, director)
KLOE is a story about what we gain as a society when we nurture the potential of beautiful things.
LIVE CATCH (US/CHINA)
Raina Yang (writer, director)
Live Catch explores how ecological crisis reshapes belief systems and communities, turning the human need for belonging and certainty into ideologies that can slide from land preservation into complicity and exclusion.
MARIA ALTAMIRA (BRASIL)
Giuliana Monteiro (writer, director), Beatriz Monteiro (co-writer)
Feeling cursed after surviving an earthquake, a Peruvian woman abandons her Indigenous
daughter until a decade later the girl's quest for justice reunites them in Brazil's Xingu
MISS SEED (COSTA RICA)
Maria Pijuan (writer, director), Morena Guadalupe Espinoza (producer)
It is a homage to indigenous wisdom and their connection to nature, in contrast to our modern civilization.
OLIOT (FINLAND/SPAIN)
Brian Hermida Stubbe (co-writer, director), Sanna Toivanen (co-writer, co-director)
A post-office workers love-triangle, a fusion of physical performance and a BBC-style mockumentary of nature.
SO THIS IS DYING (BRASIL)
Helena Guerra (co-writer, director), Giovanni Pirelli (co-writer, producer)
Production company: Irmãos Guerra Filmes (BRASIL)
A coming-of-age story about grief, friendship, and collective care, set in a solarpunk community where imagining sustainable ways of living together becomes a response to loss.
STORMCHILD (SWITZERLAND)
Natalia Ducrey (writer, director), Pascaline Sordet (producer)
Production company: CLIMAGE (SWITZERLAND)
Europe, 2045. In a world without insects, Solé, a 14-year-old hand-pollinator begins to question the nomadic life she shares with her mother and the future she’s expected to inherit.
TIPPING POINT (UK)
Aurora Fearnley (writer, director)
An epigenetic researcher is recruited to a private lab where scientists are forging inventions to battle climate change, however Ursula’s own genetic disability pushes her to go beyond any safe limit.
THE DAY OF FIRE (BRASIL)
Tom Hamburger (writer, director), Fernando Sapelli (producer)
The Day of Fire explores the struggle of a rural worker to protect and sustain his son amid forces beyond his control. The film examines themes of land, class, and tradition, while addressing the impact of climate change and the ways extreme political rhetoric deepens divisions, eroding the sense of community and collective responsibility.
THE SCENT OF THE TREE (BRASIL)
Débora Backes Barboza (writer), Dario Aldana (producer)
Production company: Enseada Filmes (Brasil)
On a poisoned plantation, an indigenous woman battles chemical toxicity and corporate silence, seeking in her ancestry the strength to break a cycle of death.
THE WORLD WITHIN (INDIA)
Sachin Dheeraj Mudigonda (director, scriptwriter)
My project is exploring the theme of "What does it mean to bring a new life into this world where all life is going away?" I'm also tackling "Dignity against progress" as the film deals with the intersectionality of climate crisis, energy transition and everyday struggles.
TO STOP SINKING (BRASIL)
Iuli Gerbase (writer, director)
The film explores guilt, responsibility, and emotional paralysis in the face of the climate crisis.
UNDER THE OLIVE TREES (US, FRANCE, ITALY)
Jackson Giuricich (writer, director, producer)
Production company: Steel Made Films (UK)
Set amidst a plague devastating the olive trees in Puglia, a young American writer impersonates a vivacious Alzheimer’s patient’s dead husband to get inspiration for his book.