UK Green Film Festival 2015 Programme
UK GREEN FILM FESTIVAL 2015
Returns with more UK premieres and venues than ever
3rd-‐10th May
Aberdeen / Belfast / Birmingham / Bristol / Cambridge / Cardiff / Cheshire / Cumbria Dundee / Edinburgh / Falmouth / Glasgow / Goole / Hexham / Inverness / Leeds /
Leicester London / Nottingham / Oban / Oxford / Saffron Waldon / Welwyn Garden City
Opening Gala 3rd May, 3pm. Rio Cinema, London
European Premiere: Bikes vs Cars
Dir. Fredrik Gertten
Closing Gala
&
Awards Ceremony in partnership with DocHouse
10th May, 7pm. Bertha DocHouse,
Curzon Bloomsbury
UK Premiere: Good Things Await
Dir. Phie Ambo
Programme
Bikes vs Cars ( UKGFF Opening Gala - European Premiere )
Dir. Fredrik Gertten
Running Time : 91 min
Country : Sweden
Today
there are one billion cars in
the world. By 2020, that number
will double. Coming to UKGFF for its European premiere straight from SXSW, Bikes vs Cars depicts
a global crisis that we all deep down know we need to talk about:
an ever-‐growing, dirty and
polluting traffic chaos. The new film
from Bananas!* and Big Boys Gone Bananas!* director Fredrik Gertten investigates the daily global drama in traffic. We meet activists
and thinkers who are fighting for
better cities and who refuse to stop riding, despite billions of dollars being used every year for lobbying to keep
society car dependent.
Good Things Await ( UKGFF Closing Gala ‐ UK Premiere )
Dir.Phie Ambo
Running Time : 90 min
Country : Denmark
Niels Stokholm is fast approaching 80,
but still runs his
biodynamic farm with his
wife Rita in
accordance with spiritual laws. Living in the Danish countryside, the idealistic couple face regular visits -‐ and fines -‐ from government inspectors pointing out
their unusual methods. At
the same time, a businessman wants
them to
distribute products to
some of
the finest and hippest Michelin star restaurants in
the world. Filmmaker Phie Ambo's absorbing and visually inspiring documentary follows Niels and Rita for an unforgettable year as they attempt to
ensure they’re the first
rather than
the last to practice agriculture in
this unique way.
Above All Else ( UK Premiere )
Dir. John Fiege
Running Time : 95 min
Country : USA
One man risks his family and future when he rallies against the
controversial Keystone XL
oil pipeline in
East Texas in
this compelling and timely documentary by John Fiege. Having its UK premiere at
the UK Green Film
Festival, Above All
Else follows David Daniel as
he rallies neighbours and environmental activists
to join him in
a final act
of
brinkmanship: a tree-‐top blockade of
the controversial pipeline. What begins as
a stand against corporate bullying becomes a rallying cry for climate protesters nationwide. Shot in the forests, pastures, and living rooms of
rural East Texas, the
documentary premiered to
rave reviews at SXSW in March 2014.
Divide in Concord ( UK Premiere )
Dir. Kris Kaczor
Running Time : 82 min
Country : USA
Country : USA
Divide in
Concord
follows
the entertaining tale of a
battle
to
ban
bottled water
in small
town America.
The year
was 1775 in Concord, Massachusetts when colonists fired the infamous ‘shot heard round the world’ that began the American Revolution. One hundred years later, the
work of
local resident Henry
David Thoreau began the environmental movement. And now, the spirit of
Jean Hill,
a fiery 84-‐year-‐old widow and mother of
four, wants
to ban the
sale of bottled water from
Concord. But all are
not in
agreement -‐ merchants are wary of
the bylaw;
philanthropist, model and celebrity publicist Adriana Cohen calls it an attack on freedom; and with billions of dollars at stake, the
International
Bottled Water Association sends in the
cavalry.
H2Omx
( UK Premiere )
Dir. Josรฉ Cohen & Lorenzo Hagerman
Running Time : 72 min
Country : Mexico
This
UK premiere asks
if a mega-‐city can
mobilize its' 22 million citizens to
become water sustainable. Mexico City
was built not
near water but
in the middle of
a lake. To supply the city
with fresh water is such a task that it has become
compulsory to bring water from other states. In
addition once sewage
water leaves the
city it ends up in agriculture. The environmental documentary details in a gripping way
the daily
struggle of
the Valley of
Mexico as it tries to
save itself while its population grows.
Sud Eau Nord Dรฉplacer ( UK Premiere)
Dir. Antoine Boutet
Running Time : 110 min
Country : France/China
This
UK premiere is a journey along the
Nan Shui Bei
Diao, an audacious scheme
designed to move water from the
south to
the north of
China and
the biggest water transfer project the
world has
ever seen. By
travelling across the
country, from the
developed eastern coast to
the uninhabited mountains of
Tibet, it is possible to
understand the
consequences of
the project: landscapes shaped
by engineers who exert their power
over land, who
work carefully to
assure control and yield. The captivating documentary shows how a civilisation seeks to inscribe, into the earth and landscape itself, the imprint of
its supposed greatness and
tells the
story of the people affected by
this colossal politically motivated project.
Seeds
of Time
Dir. Sandy McLeod
Running Time: 77 min
Country: USA
A perfect storm is brewing as agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect the future of our food. Seed banks around the world are crumbling, crop failures are producing starvation and rioting, and the accelerating effects of climate change are affecting farmers globally. Communities of indigenous Peruvian farmers are already suffering those effects, as they try desperately to save over 1,500 varieties of native potato in their fields. The captivating documentary by Academy Award nominee Sandy McLeod follows Fowler and the farmers on their passionate and personal journeys that may save the one resource we cannot live without: our seeds.
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