Preview Screening! Directors Roberto Olivares Ruiz and Jonathan Amith in person for Q&A!

A luminescent study of a man still versed in traditional rope making and religious ceremonies in a village not far from Acapulco.

Director José Álvarez in person for Q&A!

Canícula lyrically weaves together the daily routines in the American Indian village of Zapotal, showing us traditions that endure in despite the encroachment of the modern world.

12-year-olds Santiago and Mariana discover a dangerous group of animal traffickers operating in their area and set out to save the wolves in this children’s film festival favorite.

Planned obsolescence was born in the 20s to sell more light bulbs and continues today. Can our consumer economy change and still be viable?

A spirited look at our addiction to the automobile and the way it has changed our living environment. Screening with: Ciclovia, Bogotá, Columbia (Clarence Eckerson Jr., 2007).

Director Adam Horowitz in person for Q&A!

A remarkable documentary study of U.S. nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, which willfully used the native inhabitants as guinea pigs for the effects of radiation.

Bodanzky collaborated with 35 Amazon basin communities to create this documentary about their fragile and threatened way of life. They tell their own stories and express concerns for their future in a region threatened by social and economic forces.

Chandani wants to be an elephant trainer like her father and grandfather before her, but no woman has even had the job. This engaging documentary follows Chandani as she breaks new ground in following her dream.

Based on a true story, a boy is sold by his impoverished family to work with a goat herder in the mountains of Cordoba. When the goat herder dies, 7-year-old Marcos is left to raise himself.

15-year-old Bebo and his two younger cousins are part of a family of cartoneros, people who earn their living sorting through garbage and selling it to recyclers. Paralluelo’s first documentary feature offers a candid view of lives lived in poverty and the insistent dreams that accompany them.

Cultural differences set off many humorous encounters in this documentary about two Czech electricians return to the Zambian village to repair and upgrade the solar energy system they installed there five years earlier.

Addressing the major problems of climate change, financial failure and depletion of natural resources as parts of one failed system, author Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed takes apart our economic structure to show how our assumptions brought us here today.