SECTION: EcoEast

33FFC Sektions Button ECOEAST How do people change the landscape and how does the landscape change people? How does Eastern Europe deal with climate change? What are the interactions between nature and people, between ecology and economy? How are we changing our own habitats? EcoEast presents films about nature and the destruction of nature and threatened living environments, between forestry and open-cast mining. Observations without a moralising finger, but all the more sustainable for it.

Bartka

Бартка

Volodymyr Bakum
Ukraine / 2022 / 92 min

In order to slow down the climate catastrophe, the forest ecosystem is of great importance. Director Volodymyr Bakum takes a precise look at forestry in the Ukrainian Carpathians and questions the point of cutting down the forests.

Bottlemen

Nemanja Vojinović
UK/RS / 2023 / 83 min

The huge Vinča landfill outside Belgrade, presumably a cradle of civilisation in ancient times, is now the workplace of plastic bottle collectors. Nemanja Vojinović's intense documentary, peppered with dystopian images, observes the daily work of ...

Voice of the Glacier

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Yadykar Ibraimov
Kazakhstan / 2022 / 80 min

It is well known that glaciers are melting due to the climate crisis, but how exactly does this happen? Impressively photographed, harrowing eco-thriller about the melting Tujuksu glacier in Kazakhstan - and the work of the scientists who document ...

SECTION: EcoEast

Bartka

Бартка

Bottlemen

Bottlemen

Voice of the Glacier

muzdıqtıñ dawısı

Geamăna

Geamăna

The Well

The Well

This is our House

This is our House