Tag: Closing the Loop

  • Workshop: Holistic Compost Lab

    Workshop: Holistic Compost Lab

    Workshop: Holistic Compost Lab

    Saturday morning of our festival is dedicated to the topic of composting. As part of our special topic “Closing the Loop: Living within Planetary Boundaries” we will look at ways how food waste and other nutrients can help to nourish and be reintroduced into soil. In a circa three hour long workshop, Andreas Doerne of the Holistic Compost Lab in St. Peter as part of the festival will give fascinating insights into the composting they do at their site, how it works and what you yourself can do. You can also find out more about the Holistic Compost Lab on their website.

    To reserve a place for the workshop, please send us an email at reservation@greenmotions-filmfestival.de.

    The workshop takes place in the gallery of the Kommunales Kino Freiburg. Those of you who want to learn more about composting and hear inspiring stories about communities that compost on a larger scale can stick around for the screening of People at the Heart of Change and Ben bEartha right after the workshop.

    08.11.25

    10:00 AM

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  • Purpose

    Purpose

    Purpose

    Director: Martin H. Oetting

    Duration: 96 min

    Language: Various

    Subtitles: German

    The global multi-crisis is accelerating and affects all levels of society: democracy, climate, biodiversity, migration, justice, equality, institutions, farming. And yet, there is no mainstream debate about the issue at the core of many – if not all – of these problems: our economies. How they function, what they deliver and how they are designed is not really part of public discourse. Purpose shows how economists Katherine Trebeck and Lorenzo Fioramonti fight to bring society off of its destructive course.
    Following the film, there will be a discussion with director Martin H. Oetting, a representative from ICLEI and Benedikt Schmid of the chair of geography of the university of Freiburg.

    09.11.25

    6:00 PM

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    No seats left? We also show the movie in a parallel screening in the cinema’s smaller gallery room! There won’t be a discussion there, however.

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  • HOLY SHIT: Mit Sch#!$e die Welt retten

    HOLY SHIT: Mit Sch#!$e die Welt retten

    HOLY SHIT: Mit Sch#!$e die Welt retten

    Director: Rubén Abruña

    Duration: 85 min

    Language: Diverse

    Subtitles: German

    What happens to the food we digest after it leaves our bodies? Is it waste to be discarded or a resource to be reused? Looking for answers, director Rubén Abruña embarks on an investigative and entertaining quest through 16 cities across 4 continents. He follows the poop trail from the long Parisian sewers to a huge wastewater treatment plant in Chicago. The presumed solution, adopted around the world, to use the semi-solid remains of the wastewater treatment process as a fertilizer, proves to be a living nightmare, because they contain heavy metals and toxic PFAS chemicals. Can excreta be used to grow food and ease the imminent fertilizer scarcity?
    Following the screening: Discussion with director Rubén Abruña and Andreas Doerne (Holistic Compost Lab) + presentation of the book „Holy Shit“ by publisher Undine Löhfelm.

    06.11.25

    8:00 PM

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  • People at the Heart of Change + Ben & bEartha: A Community’s Compost Love Story

    People at the Heart of Change + Ben & bEartha: A Community’s Compost Love Story

    People at the Heart of Change + Ben & bEartha: A Community’s Compost Love Story

    Directors: Karen Logan /Jordan Osmond

    Duration: 66 min (27 min / 39min)

    Language: Englisch

    Subtitles: Englisch

    This double feature is dedicated to an essential aspect of our special topic of living within planetary boundaries – composting. Focusing on a Zero-waste and Environmental justice project in the city of Durban, South Africa, the heart-warming documentary People at the Heart of Change shows the power of small but local solutions with big impact. Waste-pickers, traders, artists, activists and neighbours come together and prove that if we can slow down long enough to listen to each other, we can lay the groundwork for a more just world.

    Ben & bEartha follows the story of passionate composter Ben Bushell of Community Compost, Nelson. Through the inspiring story of Ben and his dedicated composting community, we get to know bEartha, an automatic composting machine that’s about to revolutionise small-scale commercial composting. This inspiring film offers a potentially game-changing approach to making compost on an urban scale.

    After the screening, there will be a discussion about waste management in Freiburg with Veit Cornelis of the ASF.

    08.11.25

    1:30 PM

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    People at the Heart of Change – 1
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  • L’Arbre de l’Authenticité

    L’Arbre de l’Authenticité

    L’Arbre de l’Authenticité

    Director: Sammy Baloji

    Duration: 87min

    Language: French, Dutch

    Subtitles: Englisch

    Scientific records about nature in the Congo Basin are found in Yangambi, a biological research station from the Belgian colonial era. They show, among other things, how trees react to climate change. The Congolese rainforests play a central role in the global climate balance: ‘My children will become workers in a new climate economy,’ whispers Lileko, the tree of authenticity at the end of the film. Photographer and video artist Sammy Baloji gives the trees a voice with poetic text and immersive soundscapes. Divided into three chapters, the film essay takes a critical look at Belgium’s colonial past and the ecological significance of the DR Congo today.

    07.11.25

    6:30 PM

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