Tag: Greenmotions 2025

  • Birdsong + Au 8ème Jour (Short Film)

    Birdsong + Au 8ème Jour (Short Film)

    Birdsong + Au 8ème Jour (Short Film)

    Directors: Kathleen Harris / Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin & Théo Duhautois

    Duration: 60 min (52 min / 8 min)

    Languages: English / No Dialogue

    Subtitles: English

    This double feature showcases the beauty of the natural world and reminds us, how close we are to losing it. The French film Au 8ème Jour delicately illustrates how humans disrupt the balance of Earth’s tightly interwoven ecosystems. This artfully animated film serves as a grim metaphor of humanity’s role on the planet.

    Birdsong presents the ambitious project of ornithologist Seán Ronayne who attempts to make sound recordings of every bird species that still breeds in Ireland. Throughout his journey he travels to some of the country’s most beautiful and remote locations to find its most elusive species and soundscapes. Seán’s search for species is complicated by the fact, that a lot of Irish bird populations are on the verge of extinction. With its intimate animal scenes and its charismatic, authentic protagonist, the film inevitably arouses a fascination of the living world surrounding us.

    08.11.25

    5:00 PM

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  • Roots of Resilience: Stories of Caribbean Women in Agriculture + Weeds (short)

    Roots of Resilience: Stories of Caribbean Women in Agriculture + Weeds (short)

    Roots of Resilience: Stories of Caribbean Women in Agriculture + Weeds (short)

    Directors: Curmiah Lisette & Keithlin Caroo-Afrifa / Pola Kazak

    Duration: 62 min (48 min / 14 min)

    Languages: English / No Dialogue

    Untertitel: English

    To start this double screening, Pola Kazak’s Weeds illustrates the relationship between flowers in our gardens and those in nature all around us. Her film, which she animated by painting on glass using stop motion animation techniques, reflects on the human stewardship of the life that surrounds us.

    Subsequently Roots of Resilience tells the story of agriculture on the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia. In light of St. Lucia’s past journey from indigenous roots through European colonisation and slavery, the film focuses on the inspiring work of the organisation Helen’s Daughters. Led by Keithlin Caroo-Afrifa, it empowers women farmers across the Caribbean with innovative contributions like FarmHers markets and rural training programs.

    08.11.25

    3:30 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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  • Demain, la vallée + The Crazy Farm (Short Film)

    Demain, la vallée + The Crazy Farm (Short Film)

    Demain, la vallée + The Crazy Farm (Short Film)

    Director: Jérôme Prudent / Josephine Liu, Yuyuan Ma

    Duration: 82 min (63 min / 19 min)

    Languages: French / Chinese, English

    Subtitles: English

    After our foodsharing buffet on sunday morning, we continue our programme with two films about agriculture. The short film The Crazy Farm shows the extraordinary project of taiwanese farmer Humama located near Chengdu. At the age of 50, she decided to quit her city job and founded an ecologically oriented farm where she grows both plants and raises cattle in harmony.

    The feature film Demain, la vallée tackles the question how change in the agricultural sector can be made equitably. In the idyllic Arac valley in the french Pyrenees, the project “Just Scapes” brings together farmers, gardeners and members of local administrations to develop visions of just adaptions to climate change in rural areas.

    Following the screening, we will have a discussion with local initiatives Agronauten, Piluweri, Regionalwert AG and Gartencoop.

    09.11.25

    11:00 PM

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  • Short film programme for kids 2025

    Short film programme for kids 2025

    Short film programme for kids 2025

    For the third time in a row, we invite young guests and their families to a programme of short movies aimed at children from the age of five. In the approximately one hour long event, we will watch and discuss five exciting and funny short movies. The kid-friendly stories focus on the environment and how we can all live together happily and sustainably. At the end, the children have the chance to vote for their favourite film, which we will then watch together one more time.
    We hope to welcome many of you to one of our two screenings on Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon at the KoKi Freiburg.

    08.11.25

    10:30 AM

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    09.11.25

    2:30 PM

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    Our Kids Movies 2025

    Momo, the Marmot

    Directors: Kids ‘N Tricks

    Duration: 2 min

    Language: German

    Subtitles: –

    Momo, the marmot, lives in the Alps. She normally sleeps through the cold winters in her burrow underground with the winter fat she has eaten over the summer. But Momo can’t stand the increasingly warm summers in the Alps at all and instead of filling her belly, she prefers to hide in her burrow. As a result, Momo and the other marmots are too thin in winter and cannot hibernate.

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    Writing Home

    Director: Eva Matejovičová

    Duration: 12 min

    Languages: No Dialogue

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    A little bark beetle girl lives a peaceful life in the forest until a fire destroys her home. She is separated from her family and finds refuge in a human school, where she discovers a new talent: writing.

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    Si Viene de la Tierra

    Director: Katalyn Egely

    Duration: 4 min

    Language: Spanish (song)

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    A girl, a cumbia and a sustainable and healthy world. Katalin Egely’s animation to the song by Ruth Hillar and Sebastián Cúneo (Canticuénticos) invites young and old to think about responsible consumption and the environment: “What a great festival of colours, flavours and surprises when we eat what comes from the earth again!”

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    World I Live in

    Director: Ester Kasalová

    Duration: 7 min

    Language: No Dialogue

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    Alice’s summer with her grandfather brings to light their shared interest in butterflies and connects their different perspectives – one through a video game, the other through the real world.

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    A small garden by the window

    Director: Lee Jonghoon

    Duration: 5 min

    Language: No Dialogue

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    Early morning. A man picks ripe cherry tomatoes from his small patch on the windowsill to pack a lunchbox for work. Ecological energy flows from the tomato vines. This energy, which comes from small acts for the environment, accompanies the man as he once again goes to the front line of the climate crisis.

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  • wer wenn nicht du + DARIO – How To Not Change The World (Short Film)

    wer wenn nicht du + DARIO – How To Not Change The World (Short Film)

    wer wenn nicht du + DARIO – How To Not Change The World (Short Film)

    Directors: Charlotte Weinreich & Rosa-Lena Lange / Christian Belz

    Duration: 51 min (34 min / 17 min)

    Language: German

    Subtitles: – / English

    To kick off our festival, we will be showing two films in a double session that deal with the question of what successful protest and activism can look like in the face of the escalating climate crisis: The short film DARIO portrays a young man who resorts to radical forms of protest out of frustration with current climate policy. In “wer wenn nicht du”, a father and his son discuss the pros and cons of civil disobedience.

    After the films, Jannis Niethammer and Karl Braig, protagonists of “wer wenn nicht du”, and Christian Belz, director of “DARIO”, will be available for questions and discussion.

    05.11.25

    6:00 PM

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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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  • Documerica, Self-Portrait of a Nation on the Brink

    Documerica, Self-Portrait of a Nation on the Brink

    Documerica, Self-Portrait of a Nation on the Brink

    Director: Pierre-François Didek

    Duration: 58 min

    Language: English

    Subtitles: German

    Landscapes disfigured by industry, nature disfigured by mountains of rubbish and scrap cars: ‘Documerica’ paints an unsparing picture of the USA. ‘Documerica’ is the name of a photography programme run by the US Environmental Protection Agency in the 1970s. The aim was to photographically document the dramatic ecological state of the country. From 1972, around one hundred photographers travelled the United States. Their photographs show the society of the time and its living conditions as a disturbing mosaic. Tens of thousands of pictures were taken at the time, but they were forgotten. Now we revisit the project with some of the photographers involved.

    09.11.25

    1:00 PM

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  • Planet Wind – The Global Story of Offshore Wind

    Planet Wind – The Global Story of Offshore Wind

    Planet Wind – The Global Story of Offshore Wind

    Director: Dominic Allen

    Duration: 106 min

    Language: Englisch

    Join Andy Evans, Australian renewable energy pioneer, as he follows the story of Offshore Wind across the globe, exploring our relationship to this immense planetary force. Filmed in thirteen countries and featuring over twenty offshore wind experts, “Planet Wind” delves into humanity’s relationship with the wind throughout history and cultures. This global journey reveals the real story behind the development of offshore wind as an energy source, how this ever-present planetary force is being harnessed, and its transformative potential for our future.

    06.11.25

    5:00 PM

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  • Lost for Words

    Lost for Words

    Lost for Words

    Director: Hannah Papacek-Harper

    Duration: 90min

    Language: English, Scottish Gaelic

    Subtitles: English

    How do you connect with nature? What does nature mean to you? Lost for Words takes its audience on a journey around the UK, portraying landscapes and the communities that live within them. Our starting point is the disappearance of nature words from the Oxford Junior dictionary in 2007. Inspired by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris’s best-selling book The Lost Words, it is lost words like acorn, otter, bluebell, dandelion that guide us through the film. We follow them through the seasons, to the most remote parts of the UK landscape, museum archives and into scientists’ labs.

    07.11.25

    4:30 PM

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