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The Amazon Changers - Cook to Empower (2019)

The film team follows an extraordinary project for peace and empowerment – a ferry with a cooking school for indigenous communities on the Rio Napo in the heart of Ecuador’s Amazon forest. The goal of the film's main protagonist David Höner, founder of the Swiss NGO «Cuisine...

55 min

The Vertical Border (2022)

Millions of people worldwide are being uprooted from their homes and communities. Central Americans are fleeing from economic precarity, climate disaster as well as state and criminal violence. Most head towards Mexico and the United States in search of a livable life. The...

68 min

Occupation Inc. (2020)

A documentary about Spanish involvement in the Moroccan occupation and exploitation of Western Sahara, Africa's last colony, with Sahrawi human rights defenders Elghalia Djimi and Sultana Khaya.

42 min

Sal Y Cielo (2020)

ARE OUR SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABILITY REALLY GOOD FOR THE PLANET? OR CONVENIENCES THAT ARE SUSTAINABLE FOR “US” AT THE EXPENSE OF VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND OUR FUTURE.

7 min

HAMBI - Fight For Hambach Forest | Vimeo on Demand (2019)

Transparent Film / ZDF - Das Kleine Fernsehspiel / Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

84 min

The Man Who Knew Too Much (2020)

A documentary film about Colin Wallace an intelligence officer who blew the whistle on fake news and was framed for a murder.

69 min

Breaking the Cycle - Reclaiming Our Humanity with Our Evolved Nest (2021)

Kindred World is proud to launch The Evolved Nest’s educational short film, Breaking the Cycle. The moving and inspirational six-minute film illustrates our capacity for breaking our current Cycle of Competitive Detachment and returning to the pattern of 95% of our human...

6 min

From Abandoned Farm To Permaculture Laboratory (2021)

On the grounds of the permaculture laboratory Peintnerhof in the middle of Carinthia (Austria), pigs dig through the earth and prepare the formerly compacted soil piece by piece for a new, more diverse planting. For example, classic fruit trees are allowed to flourish next to...

9 min

It's Okay to Panic (2020)

"It’s Okay to Panic" is a nostalgic portrait of 62-year-old Professor Szymon Malinowski, Director of the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Warsaw, who worries that climate change may cause human civilisation to collapse in the coming decades. A career educator...

59 min

The Age of Disconnection (2018)

The discipline that involves doing sports combined with the mental clarity that comes from being immersed in nature is a combination that has enabled thousands of people to abandon addiction, have a spiritual renewal, re-evaluate their lives and find their purpose in life.

94 min

Lost In Carranza

In the night of October 12th 2015, Pablo Carranza falls back into hard drugs despite his sobriety and battle against years of addiction. Alone in his apartment, filled with regret and guilt, he decides to confess by leaving a final voice message for his first love.

22 min

To Return (2018)

A controversial film experiment, a courageous journey and a unique collaboration between filmmaker and refugee; which is not without consequences. A film by David Fedele & Kumut Imesh.

78 min

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

A film on Climate Change, Degrowth and System Change. The effects and risks of climate change are compelling young people the world round to call upon radical system change as the only solution to avoid a catastrophic collapse. This film studies the role economic growth has...

48 min

The New Story | La Nueva Historia

The old paradigm of separateness, patriarchal anthropocentrism, religious monopolies, and the dictatorship of the ego, among other guiding threads, have brought humanity and planetary living systems to the brink of collapse. To aspire to a possible future, it is essential to...

20 min

Listen to My Song (2020)

Esteban escaped poverty in the ghetto when he was thirteen, by running away from home and joining the FARC guerrilla movement in Colombia.

48 min

Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First (2020)

Why is it that some children thrive while others do not? Is it a matter of genetics, IQ, socioeconomic background or education? Every child deserves to reach their full potential and the early years are the best possible start in life that could transform the world.

60 min

#WeUnite | Accompany farmers Carlo and Hanna as they drive their tractors to Berlin to protest for a better food and farming system.

#WeUnite - The 12-minute film ‘We Unite’ is a window into the lives of two organic farmers and the reasons they join the yearly ‘We are Fed-Up’ demonstration in Germany .Along with hundreds of other farmers, they drive their tractors into the heart of Berlin where they unite...

13 min

The Dark Side of Tulum (2019)

An independent documentary exploring both the beauty and betrayal of Tulum, Mexico - and what can be done to change it. *Available with Spanish subtitles - simply click the CC button on the video player.

31 min

Love And Revolution (2018)

July 2018. The European media claim that the austerity cure in Greece has been successful and that peace has returned. This film proves the opposite. A musical journey, from the north to the south of Greece, among those who dream of love and revolution. 5 years after "Let’s...

85 min

Slaughterhouse - What The Meat Industry Hides (2017)

With images obtained during an investigation carried out in fifty eight slaughterhouses in Mexico between 2015 and 2017, Slaughterhouse is a documentary that takes us into the hermetic world of the meat industry. The footage shows the systematic exploitation and violence...

40 min

Humano (2013)

Humano is a documentary that narrates a young man's journey to the Andes mountains, accompanied only by a camera, two hundred questions and the yearning to discover the origin of man. In Q'eros, he meets a shaman who will explain that before answering his questions, he must...

88 min

Dominion (2018)

Dominion uses drones, hidden and handheld cameras to expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture, questioning the morality and validity of humankind’s dominion over the animal kingdom. While mainly focusing on animals used for food, it also explores other ways...

120 min

Land of Hope and Glory (2017)

The hidden truth behind UK animal farming - featuring approximately 100 facilities across the UK and never before seen undercover footage. Activist Earthling Ed produces and narrates this 'UK Earthlings documentary' with over a decade of undercover footage and Animal...

49 min

Unity (2015)

100 celebrities narrate this enlightening documentary that re-examines the interconnectedness of all life on Earth, ponders our place in the universe, while taking viewers on an epic journey through the history of civilization and beyond. In this compassionate and inspiring...

100 min

ANICCA - Embracing Change (2017)

ANICCA is a very personal, honest and inspirational documentary about key issues regarding our struggle with change: fear, courage, trust and the big challenge of accepting reality as it is.

85 min

Trouble, Ep. 1 - Killing the Black Snake (2017)

Trouble Season 1 Episode 1 "Killing the Black Snake: Behind the Scenes of the #NODAPL Struggle". sub.Media looks beyond the mainstream narratives surrounding the Standing Rock encampment to get a better understanding of some of the camp's overlooked dynamics, including...

30 min

Politica Recuperada.

Mientras las tecnologías digitales están cambiando todo, seguimos teniendo instituciones políticas del siglo XIX. Sin embargo, en los márgenes del poder actual, crece un movimiento que escapa de las trincheras ideológicas tradicionales, para dar cuerpo a otra forma de hacer...

10 min

Saramurillo, Justice for Peru's Amazonian Peoples?

This short film tells the story of the recent indigenous mobilization at Saramurillo in the Northern Peruvian Amazon and shares the voices of indigenous peoples who united in this ongoing struggle for their rights, and for the protection of the water, land and life itself...

9 min

Sustainable Living Series with Rob Greenfield

The series documents Rob Greenfield's off the grid bike ride across America on a bamboo bicycle where he practiced sustainable living to the extreme. In 4,700 miles of cycling he used just 160 gallons of water, burned less than one gallon of gas, never turned on a light...

25 min

Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)

RE-LEARNING THE LAND is the story of a Blackfoot community in southern Alberta, Canada, and how they have re-taken control of their education system within Red Crow Community College. The film traces the decolonization of their learning and the development of an innovative...

68 min

The United Nations of the Spirit - Naciones Unidas Del Espíritu

In 2015 leaders and members of diverse indigenous communities throughout America founded the United Nations of the Spirit. Durante el mes de diciembre del 2015 en la Eco Yoga Aldea de Varsana, cerca de Bogotá, Co

10 min

Nuestras Religiones: ¿Son Las Religiones Propias De La Humanidad?

Al contrario de lo que se suele creer, Charles Darwin no introdujo la idea de evolución. A mediados del siglo XIX, la evolución era un hecho que ya se conocía desde hacía mucho tiempo, y la mayoría de los pensadores de la época se contentaba con eso. La ausencia de una teoría...

Daniel Quinn / ishmael.org

What Is Autonomy

Welcome to the very first "A is for Anarchy" a monthly video series that breaks down anarchist concepts, theories and thoughts. On this episode we look at the concept of "Autonomy".

4 min

Pick It Up

Kerstin woke up every day before the sun came up. Waiting for the dawn near some rocks, she puts gloves and walked the same stretch of beach picking up garbage. After an hour, she cleaned the 200 meters of beach. He ended sad and frustrated to see such indifference of human...

3 min

Festival Museo Libre (2015)

A short documentary about a graffiti festival organized by a group of young artists who live in the periphery of the megacity Bogotá. With an annual graffiti festival they try to change the negative image of their barrio, stigmatized as a dangerous and violent place.

23 min

Changing the Way We Change the World (2015)

This short film is intended as a conversation-starter for staff, volunteers, board members, and funders of social purpose organisations.

17 min

Seeds Of Change (2014)

An ecological community in the Bolivian Amazon is revealed: Candelaria Madidi Ecologico. By protecting one of the most biodiverse places in the world, they aim to create an alternative model of a society.

41 min

Marx Is Back: A Fictional Mini-Series Based on the Communist Manifesto

"Marx Is Back" takes place in todays' Argentina, which suffers like other countries the blows of economic crises. Workers of a printing house are facing suspensions and lay-offs; a group of workers are organizing to fight back as the union officials try to push them aside. At...

55 min

Farmer in 1950s America Has Sage Advice for His Gay Son

Patrick Haggerty grew up the son of a dairy farmer in rural Dry Creek, Washington, during the 1950s. As a teenager, Pat began to understand he was gay—something he thought he was hiding well. But one day, after performing at a school assembly, Pat learned that his father...

4 min

ESPEJO - a Short Film About Empathy

"Empathy is not to bring comfort, nor to advise. It is not to judge or try to distract someone from their pain... It means being fully present with the other, to serve as a mirror of their feelings and needs, so that they may find relief and clarity through our attention."

7 min

Payada Pa Satan

A beautifully told tale of a couple living peacefully in the countryside until one day an explosion rocks their world.

8 min

Alihuen: An Agrarian Conservation Story (2014)

Alihuen means Big Tree in the language of the indigenous Mapuche peoples of Chile. When Jeroen decided to settle in the rural Chepu province of Chiloe with his wife Grecia, this name was not taken lightly, for the farmland which it would represent has undertaken massive...

31 min

Ciutat Morta (Dead City) (2013)

800 people illegally occupy an old movie theater in Barcelona in order to screen a documentary. They rename the old building after a girl who committed suicide in 2011: Cinema Patricia Heras. Who was that girl? Why did she kill herself and what does the city have to do with...

127 min

Climate Change Is About...Women

Climate change is about...food, water, extractivism. Climate change is about...women, in leadership, in unity. Climate change is about...much more than climate change.

2 min

Eyes Wide Open (2009)

Eyes Wide Open writer Eduardo Galeano take us on a journey through today’s Latin America. After 500 years of exploitation and repression, Latin

110 min

Small-Scale Farmers Cool the Planet

Fair World Project's new 17-minute documentary highlights the role of industrial agriculture in climate change while expounding on how small farmers are combating the climate crisis through regenerative organic agriculture.

17 min

Return - A Story We Wrote Together (trailer)

More than 5 years after the expropriation of €492,000 from 39 different banks, a group of activists reveal how the money was used and how they lived through the experience. The driving force behind this collective is the situation imposed by the current system, civil...

4 min

Curacautin Bajo El agua

Curacautín Bajo el Agua (Curacautín Under Water) shows how Chile’s current energy policy is allowing for the construction of dam projects in areas with the highest potential for tourism. Local citizens are ra

4 min

Chiloé Saliendo a flote (Chiloé Coming Afloat)

The film Chiloé Saliendo A Flote (Chiloé Coming Afloat) shows how the rich

4 min

No Hay Mañana (2012) - There's No Tomorrow

Documental animado que trata sobre el agotamiento de los recursos, la energía, y el crecimiento. Realizado por Dermot O'Connor - Incubate Pictures - El problema del crecimiento infinito en un planeta finito: una paradoja. El vídeo nos introduce en el análisis del problema...

35 min

Terrícolas (2003) - Earthlings

Dado que todos habitamos La Tierra, todos somos considerados terrícolas. No hay sexismo, racismo ni especismo en el término terrícola y abarca a todos y cada uno de nosotros, de sangre caliente o fría, mamífero, vertebrado, ave, reptil, anfibio, pez o humano. Los humanos por...

95 min

Petroleo: Un Crudo Despertar (2006) - A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

Un documental imprescindible en el que se nos advierte magistral y desesperadamente del gran error de la sociedad actual: ignorar que los combustibles fósiles no podrán seguir abasteciendo a ritmos crecientes las economías, tampoco las de los pocos países ricos, y creer...

94 min

El Dinero Es Deuda I (2006) - Money as Debt I

El documental presenta la mecánica de creación y control del dinero, y por ende del poder, por parte de unos pocos haciendo uso de los bancos, y explica de forma muy clara mediante una historia de animación el cómo se pasó del uso exclusivo de monedas al uso de billetes, y...

47 min

La Corporación (2003) - The Corporation

The Corporation es un documental dirigido por Mark Achbar y Jennifer Abbott que se interna en el mundo empresarial psicopático. Está basado en el libro con el título 'La Corporación, la persecución patológica del beneficio y el poder', de Joel Bakan.

165 min

€UROESTAFA #UnDocumentalIncomodo

€UROESTAFA #UnDocumentalIncomodo ¿Cómo explicar que del esplendor de la burbuja inmobiliaria, hayamos pasado a una crisis económica sin precedentes? €uroestafa narra un viaje al pasado para entender la involución económica y social del presente. Un viaje que nos ayudará a...

71 min

1 Giant Leap: What About Me? (2008)

Through music and film, "1 Giant Leap" explores the universal complexities of human nature. Jamie Catto (Faithless co-founder) and Duncan Bridgeman set out on their journey recording musical jewels and words of wisdom with the cream of the world’s thinkers, writers and...

118 min

The Forbidden Education (2012)

The school has been around for more than 200 years and is still considered the main form of access to education. Today, the school and education are concepts widely discussed in academia, public policy, educational institutions, media and civil society spaces. Since its...

145 min

Artesanos (2011)

Artesanos (with English subtitles) is a 2011 Spanish documentary film. Craftsmen (artesanos) are people that act following their hearts, thus getting closer to a different and inspiring reality that is worth living. They talk with the soul’s language, withour fear, with the...

81 min

¿Sería Buenos Aires? / Maybe Buenos Aires? (2006)

A universal story that touches upon many of the themes that cross the modern world we live in: dislocation of people, destruction of their dreams overnight by crises they are not responsible for and their efforts to survive. (Spanish with English subtitles) (Español con...

48 min

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