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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

“My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future”. The British filmmaker and naturalist, David Attenborough, has devoted his career to educating people about nature and, more recently, the climate...
Ecological IdentityHuman-Nonhuman RelationsPollutionDefamiliarizationUtopiaEmpowermentHopeEmpathyInspirationMore...

Dune (2021)

Dune (2021) is the second movie adaption of Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel from 1965. The movie follows young Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) as his family takes stewardship of the desert planet Arrakis and is dragged into a war for the valuable resource known as “spice”, which makes intergalactic travel possible.
Dystopian FutureFuture WorldsFearing/Mourning ExtinctionEpic AdventureFranchise/Series

Snowpiercer (Movie)

Snowpiercer is a 2013 post-apocalyptic movie by Bong Joon-ho based on the French graphic novel “Le Transperceneige” by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. The movie takes place in...
Dystopian FutureFuture WorldsClimate ApocalypseEcological FictionEnvironmental DisasterCritical DystopiaDisasterDystopiaWeatherFoodHumanityIce AgeSocial InjusticeEcocinemaMore...

No Impact Man

No Impact Man is a 2009 American comic documentary film directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein. It tells the story of Colin Beavan, Michelle Conlin and their daughter after...
Creating AwarenessClimate ActivismCircular (Eco)NarrativesCollaborative Consumption / Sharing EconomyCall to ActionComedyComedyMore...

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is a 1984 Japanese animated movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his 1982 manga. One thousand years have passed since the Seven...
Dystopian FutureAllegorical FantasyCleaning PollutionMythologyEmpathizing With AnimalsEmpathizing With PlantsEmpathizing With EnvironmentMore...

Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing is a 2022 book adaptation directed by Olivia Newman. It dives into the story of Kya Clark who got abandoned by her family from a very...
Emphasizing LocalityEcological LifestylesBirdwatchingEmpathizing With AnimalsEmpathizing With PlantsEmpathizing With Environment

A Life On Our Planet

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet is a 2020 British documentary film narrated by David Attenborough. Attenborough describes this film as his “witness statement” on the current state of the planet due to humanity’s impact...
Dystopian FutureCreating AwarenessClimate ActivismCrisis of ImaginationEnvironmental DisasterExtinctionEmpathizing With AnimalsAnxietyEmpathizing With PlantsHopeEmpathizing With EnvironmentEagerness to ChangeMore...

All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 Hollywood melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. Cary Scott (Wyman) is a well-to-do fortyish widow in the town of Stoningham, in suburban New England, who becomes...
Emphasizing LocalityDeceleration / SlownessNatureCreating AwarenessEcological LifestylesRestoring BalanceCultural ComparisonHopeEmpathizing With EnvironmentCaringSpiritualityMore...

My Neighbour Totoro

My Neighbour Totoro is a 1988 fantasy story aimed primarily at children.  Satsuki and Mei—a pair of young sisters—move to an old house in the countryside with their father Kusakabe...
Emphasizing LocalityNatureCrisis of ImaginationEcological LifestylesAnimismEconarrativesEmpathizing With AnimalsEmpathizing With PlantsCaring For FamilySpiritualityMore...

Rio 2

Rio 2 is a 2014 American animation film directed by Carlos Saldanha. It tells the story of Blu, Jewel and their three kids. They are Blue Spix Macaws, which is...
Anthropomorphizing AnimalsCreating AwarenessClimate ActivismCorporate GreedAnimal WelfareEmpathizing With AnimalsEmpathizing With EnvironmentInspiring ActivismMore...

The Day After Tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science-fiction disaster film, directed by Roland Emmerich. The story centers Jack Hall, a renowned scientists who studies the planet’s weather patterns. He...
Dystopian FutureClimate ApocalypseCreating AwarenessAllegorical FantasyCritical DystopiaDisasterExtinctionEco HeroIce AgeScience CommunicationCountdownEmpathizing With EnvironmentCaring For FamilyDisbeliefMore...

Captain Fantastic

Captain Fantastic is a 2016 American drama film written and directed by Matt Ross. It tells the story of a family, Ben Cash, his wife Leslie, and their six children aged seven...
Ecological IdentityExperiencing EcosystemsEmphasizing Locality

Don’t Look Up

Don’t Look Up is a 2021 American science fiction/comedy film written, produced, and directed by Adam McKay with a celebrity cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett,...
Climate ApocalypseMedia ReflexivityReframing Climate ScienceGreen AesopAnxietyHumorCatharsisMore...

In the Heights

In the Heights centers on a variety of characters living in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, on the northern tip of Manhattan. At the center of the show is Usnavi,...
CapitalismUrbanismGentrificationEmpowermentConnectionCaring For FamilyAngerHappinessMusicalMore...

Honeyland

The last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood....
Indigenous KnowledgeEcological LifestylesAnimal WelfareFoodCall to ActionMore...

Into the Wild

Into the Wild is a biographical movie about the story of Christopher McCandless, a man disconnected from modern society who rejects his conventional life. He is presented as an eco-hero and a symbol of cultural alienation.
Ecological IdentityCircular (Eco)NarrativesEco HeroEnvironmental SublimeEpic Adventure

Minari

Yearning to own a small patch of land and be more than a chicken sexer, the ambitious paterfamilias, Jacob Yi, relocates his Korean-American family: sceptical wife, Monica, and their children,...
Emphasizing LocalityGardeningCultural ComparisonCaring For Family

Lazzaro Felice

“This is the tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination....
Allegorical FantasyTemporalityDisbeliefPolarization

Woman at War

Contributed by Tessa Nauta “Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known to...
Climate ActivismEnvironmental ActivismEmpowermentFearing/Mourning Extinction

After Earth

After Earth depicts a future where it is no longer safe for humans to live on planet Earth. The movie shows a theme of animal retribution, and that the antropocene -the age of humans- has passed.
Dystopian FutureExperiencing EcosystemsEnvironmental LiteracyClimate ApocalypseAllegorical FantasyDefamiliarizationAnxietyFearing/Mourning ExtinctionEpic AdventureDisbeliefMore...

The Happening

The film The Happening takes a different approach on the typical natural disaster film. In this film plants take revenge on human society through releasing neurotoxins into the air which makes people go crazy, resulting in death. This gruesome approach evokes an unusual feeling towards nature in cinema.
Dystopian FutureCritical DystopiaHorror

PandaDroom

PandaDroom, internationally known as PandaVision, is a 4D short film created by Dutch amusement park The Efteling, in cooperation with the World Wide Fund for Nature. The film ran for...
Anthropomorphizing AnimalsCreating AwarenessEmpathizing With AnimalsEmpathizing With PlantsEagerness to Change

The Yes Men Are Revolting

A documentary in which two activist ridicule their way into climate justice! They make use of eco-documentary to try to make a difference
Climate ActivismCorporate GreedFossil FuelsCulture JammingCall to ActionInspiring ActivismPleasureMore...

Okja

Okja (2017) is a film made by filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho, who is also known for his environmental film Snowpiercer (2013). Okja tells the story of Mija and her genetically modified...
CapitalismHuman-Animal FriendshipAnimal WelfareEcofeminismMeat IndustryEmpathizing With AnimalsMore...

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