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How do humans change the landscape, and how does the landscape change humans? What emerges in the process, what rifts open up, what are the consequences – for the environment, but also for cultural heritage and the future? Ten feature films and documentaries tell of relationships in flux: between humans and nature, ecology and economy, progress and disillusionment, climate protection and climate frustration.

DIVIA

DIVIA

Дівія

Dmytro Hreshko
PL/UA/NL/US / 2025 / 79 min
War against nature: Lush green forests, picturesque rivers, peacefully grazing deer—that was once upon a time. Instead: Dead fish, burnt trees, ravaged landscapes. An inventory of Ukraine's damaged nature, which will bear the scars of the ongoing ...
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FREE THE CHICKENS

FREE THE CHICKENS

FREE THE CHICKENS

Matúš Vizár
CZ/SK / 2024 / 15 min
A group of radical activists believe they are serving the cause of animal welfare—but in the thicket of the wilderness, heroism and the struggle for survival become blurred. Between the slaughterhouse and the idyllic farm, Darwin and Gandhi, the ...
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Industry Screening: SCARECROWS

Industry Screening: SCARECROWS

Industry Screening: PUTNUBIEDĒKĻI

Laila Pakalniņa
LV/LT / 2025 / 90 min
  An unusual symbiosis between humans, animals, and technology: at Riga Airport, bird controllers ensure that rabbits, owls, swallows, and other animals stay away from the runways. Almost affectionately, sometimes hectically, and occasionally in ...
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SOWING THE SEEDS OF THE WILD

SOWING THE SEEDS OF THE WILD

PRZYNOSZĘ CI DZIKOŚĆ

Dyba Lach
PL / 2024 / 72 min
When, in the summer of 2022, illegal industrial toxic wastewater triggers an unprecedented mass fish death in the Oder River, it serves as a wake-up call for musician Michal Zygmunt, an individual deeply connected to the river. He embarks on a ...
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SUN NEVER AGAIN

SUN NEVER AGAIN

SUNCE NIKAD VIŠE

David Jovanović
RS / 2024 / 72 min
To leave or to stay? That is the question facing the residents of a Serbian village as an open-cast mine moves ever closer to their homes. The walls shake every day, little Dule's mother has already started packing, but his father refuses to budge. ...
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BLOODLINE

BLOODLINE

BLOODLINE

Wojciech Węglarz
PL / 2024 / 13 min
The steel eastern border of the EU with Belarus runs right through the middle of the Białowieża Forest. In cool, laconic images, we encounter a bison at eye level, blocked from reaching its fellow creatures, and sense the intertwining of migration ...
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THE FEAST OF THE WOLF

THE FEAST OF THE WOLF

VUČJA GOZBA

Jadran Boban
HR/RS / 2025 / 85 min
The wolves are returning to a barren region in the Croatian-Dalmatian hinterland. Though the tourist destinations of the Adriatic coast are less than half an hour away, people in the deserted villages of Bukovica believe that "Brussels" represents ...
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THE TOWN THAT DROVE AWAY

THE TOWN THAT DROVE AWAY

MIASTO, KTÓRE WYJECHAŁO

Natalia Pietsch, Grzegorz Piekarski
PL / 2025 / 70 min
A city disappears: as part of the Ilısu Dam project, the millennia-old city of Hasankeyf on the Tigris River is flooded and its inhabitants forcibly resettled in a soulless test-tube city. With fascinating images and a keen sense of the history and ...
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URBAN DISOBEDIENCE TOOLKIT

URBAN DISOBEDIENCE TOOLKIT

URBAN DISOBEDIENCE TOOLKIT

Vladimír Turner
CZ / 2025 / 80 min
Artist and filmmaker Vladimir Turner documents a group of guerrilla artists in Prague, Czech Republic, who reclaim their city through unconventional and subversive installations in public spaces – a response to the accelerated urban transformation ...
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