Directors: Marc Emmanuel Louvat, Kiri Lacinnik, Mako Lacinnik

Photographers: Kiri Lacinnik, Mako Lacinnik

For more than twenty years, Mako and Kiri lived on a Tuamotu atoll, a bit like Robinsons. Camera in hand, they filmed the fauna that lived around them, witnessing births, witnessing the wild life of these islets, witnessing deaths.

Director: Vyacheslav Stolyarov

Cameramen: Vyacheslav Stolyarov, Michail Bayborodin

One year of the life of the family of nomads Khumaevs, their Buryat tribe Khongodori from the very heart of the Eastern Sayan mountains.

Director: Farshid Azari

Cameraman: Farshid Azari

Masht Hussein is a rancher, a reasonable human being who has a standard and intimate relationship with his family and friends, he has a great deal of respect for the nature that he lived his life in and he loves animals.
For more than thirty years, kindly and without any help, everyday he has been walking several kilometers through impassable high lands to water the thirsty animals and birds in the area where drought and aridity have made the living difficult for animals.
At the beginning of the path Masht Hussein carries the water with a pack animal to the steep slope of the mountain; since after that the animal is unable to proceed, he carries the bucket of water and covers the rest of the difficult road, embedding water in nature and managing water according to what he has experienced in nature.

Director: Hu Xiao

Cameraman: Hu Xiao

In Pujiao Village, Jinping County, on the Sino-Vietnamese border in Yunnan Province, there is a Yao village called Lengpo. The stockade used to be rampant with drugs, and there was a half-insanity half-awake old man here. He watched greed, anger, delusion, slow suspicion, sometimes unruly, sometimes calm. He laughed and was sleepy... In this film, the protagonist Pan Xiaogui - the old man. The wheel of the times drags people of every age forward, young people, old people, children... Hometown, home and memories, melancholy and joy, interweave the village evolution concerto, but it was composed by a mad old man.

Director: Okki Poortvliet

Cameraman: Okki Poortvliet

IJswee is a documentary film about a village with a passion for skating on natural ice and how they deal with the increasingly warm winters as a result of climate change. In the film we follow Oringers, the inhabitants of Odoorn, through the winter. The Oringer all experience in IJswee (Longing for ice) in their own way.

Director Okki Poortvliet also experiences IJswee herself. In her youth she could skate almost every winter and now she has the feeling that the temperature rise melts away a little bit of winter every year. You see the Drenthe countryside change with the weather. You see animations, archive images and you hear the mysterious sounds of IJswee in the music of Wietse de Haan.

Director: Valeria Popova

Cameraman: Matvey Sidorov

Leaving his family and city advantages, Vladimir Alekseevich arranges a house for himself in the taiga. Unity with nature in a small hut is the joy and everyday life of an 80-year-old huntsman. What makes a person choose the path of solitude? Who is he: a lone person, an egoist or a wise man who has found the meaning of life?

Director: Miha Čelar

DoP: Rozle Bregar  

This is a story about the return of the Karst shepherd to the ancient border between man and wolf.

SONS OF BORA is about a shepherd named Karst who becomes a herding dog. The film follows him from his birth through his early training with his breeder Emil, who uses an ancient shepherd-teaching method. There’s a parallel story about another Slovenian son of bora—a Slovenian wolf. The viewer is led into the wolf world by a renowned Slovenian biologist Dr. Miha Krofel. The story pays homage to the last Slovenian native breed—the Karst shepherd—and is simultaneously the film’s authors’ response to the pressures of Slovenian politics that tried to decimate the Slovenian wolf population in 2019.

Director: Hamid Sardar

Cameraman: Hamid Sardar

In the Gobi desert in Mongolia, the sand advances relentlessly, covering the wells. The camel driver, Galbadrakh, leader of the clan, decides to start a migration to find new pastures and water sources. During the journey, he loses his camels in a sandstorm. Then begins an epic struggle between man and wild nature.

Directror: Ilya Zheltyakov

Cameraman: Vitaliy Afanasyev

Volcanologists live in Kamchatka. They knock on volcanoes with hammers, climb their slopes, look through a microscope, listen to the blues, collect models of volcanoes in their bathroom, and they don’t need anything, just to understand - what is inside a living mountain? Life in the style of «volcano blues».

Director: Vasily Chirkov

There are a lot of little things and stories around us. A dog’s footprints on a road, the sound of a passing train, the color of dry autumn grass. We usually pass by without noticing. But if we recognise these moments we feel how our own life is connected to them. «A white-white day» is about this.

Director: Carlos Montoya

A man carries heavy stones. In the sky, a bird flies.

Iran, 2022|8 min.|12+

Director: Mohammad Zare

In the not-too-distant future, when depression and loneliness are rampant in modern lifestyles, human limbs have been bent by the extreme use of technological tools, and their field of vision has been limited to the digital screen in front of them. A young man who leads a regular and repetitive life, accidentally notices the beauty of nature and tries to see it again in different ways…

Director: Anna-Maria Chernigovskaya

A lone fisherman catches a woman out of the water. Their union seems fine, but there is an unsolvable conflict in it.

Director: Chenglin Xie

You are what you eat. In a world where people start to look like the thing they eat the most of, you can take this quite literally. When a newcomer prefers different eating habits, the visible consequences turn the world upside down. It’s a battle between desire and rationality.

Director: Raz Merhav

Naupe, an albino child, born in an African tribe where it is widely believed that albinos are demons and evil spirits. Therefore, his life is in danger. Vita, his mother, realizes she has to hide him in order to save his life. She finds a refuge in a barn protected by Mlinzy, a gurdien cow. Similar to the human mother, the cow also protects her baby. Tatu, a three-legged calf. The baby and the calf grew up as brothers, hidden and isolated from the village life that takes place outside. When Naupe grows up, he crosses the border between their tiny world to the village. The result of his act appellant this relationship and his own identity.

Director: Aleksandra Krivolutskaia

A young woman returns to her empty childhood home and is confronted with memories in which her late mum was always there for her. She manages to bat the memories away, but only up to a point. It is a lyrical film about the powerful feeling that seemingly completely insignificant objects from our childhood evoke in us.

Director: Helen Louise Woolston

Taking inspiration from Gaelic folklore and our changing relationship and attitudes to the landscape, this film was made for the Scottish Rewilding organisation Trees for Life. Designed using natural materials and inks made from plants and fungi native to the Scottish Highlands, it plays with the traditional Gaelic characters of the Fianna warriors, and what happens when a young girl from our world stumbles into theirs - the Otherworld - via a sìthean, a faerie hill.

Director: Hossein Moradizadeh

The film is based on a Philosophical treatise on human nature written in the 12th century. A baby alone on a remote island is suckled by a deer. He grows up, covers his body in imitation of animals, makes a weapon from a tree branch to defend himself, and discovers fire with lightning. He thinks of the sky and knows the world as a living body.
From then on, he watered the trees and rescued the helpless animals until a man came to the island. He takes the young man from that island to save the people of the mainland. But the young man returns to his island.

Director: Alper Bozkurt

At a time when over-deforestation has escalated the effects of global warming, a desperate old man looks for a shade where he can take shelter and rest in the scorching heat, but no object has a shade other than a lonely tree he encounters. When he approaches the tree, he realizes that there is not enough space for him.

Director: Artem Moskalev

The story of how all living beings are interconnected. A hokku film about the unity of all things.

Director: Natalia Gugueva

Cameraman: Shandor Berkeshi RGS

Camera operator Nastya goes to inaccessible weather station together with meteorologist Andrei in order to investigate the disappearance of a married couple of meteorologists from the station.

Director: Ruslan Sadilov

DoP: Ruslan Sadilov

Couple of hermits are the only ones not affected by a digital infection, that turns people in biorobots. One day, an infected boy breaks their peace.

Director: Marta Kotova

DoP: Leonid Kogan

A hard childhood endows Pavel with natural modesty and kindness. They prevent him from maintaining a relationship with a demanding girlfriend and push him to provide selfless help to people. During the day he is a real estate agent selling the house of a candidate who is divorcing his wife, and at night he is an anonymous benefactor and beloved by the people Potato Angel.
Seeking no recognition, Pavel arranges life for his mischievous brother while, it seems, finding a new love. However, afraid of losing the election, that candidate passes himself off as a hero of the night. The politician, so absorbed in pretending, does not realize that only the Potato Angel can return his family and real happiness to him.

Director: Mikhail Raskhodnikov

Cameraman: Semen Atamanov

After the death of his mother, the boy's bright and sunny world plunged into darkness. The boy fenced off from everyone with the help of gadgets and does not notice anything around, blames his father for their grief and does not communicate with anyone. A worried father takes his son to his grandfather on Baikal – a place of inspiring beauty and strength. Grandfather tries to distract his grandson with the fishing, tells him about local beliefs, a world where the spirits of nature and the master of Lake Baikal – Burkhan – rule. The situation is becoming more and more alarming, Sarma swoops in – the strongest local wind. The grandfather and the boy find themselves in a snowstorm, where the boy is left alone with the force of nature.

Director: Hamda Dhaouadi

DoP: Hichem Louati

The life path of an old man overcoming his loneliness after the death of his companion.

Director: Elena Emelyanova

DoP: Michail Pashkulsky

On the edge of the forest and steppe in Siberia, far from people, an elderly Buryat woman Dimid lives with her dog. Many years ago, the World War II broke into her life. But she doesn't remember it. Year after year Dimid washes her children's clothes and sends the dog into the forest for her husband-forester. The dog searches for the owner, but always returns with nothing. One day Dimid's oblivion is broken.

Directors: Felipe Pinzón Barbosa, Juan Antonio Rodríguez Llano,

Cameramen: Pablo Valdivieso, Luis Miguel Ruiz Gordon, Sebastian Heissel

 The Canary Islands are a whale Paradise. Today, this paradise is being threatened by different human pressures. This struggle aggravates mortality of the ocean animals each year and makes us face ourselves as the ones responsible for their survival, forcing us to rethink how much we value these animals currently.

How much is a whale worth? Can you put a price on the life of such a majestic animal? How can we estimate that value? To answer all these questions, Natacha Aguilar, an eminent Canarian scientist and whale expert, backed up by a group of scientists and non-profit organizations, will guide us in a spectacular journey through time and space to discover the never-told stories of the lives of these animals.

Director: Vladimir Marin

Cameramen: Maksim Tolstoy, Kirill Naidyonov

The film tells about the Arctic expedition of the Institute of the Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the research vessel Academik Mstislav Keldysh. Young scientists are studying the giant fields of the coccolitophorids algae.

Director: Hong Xiang Zhang

Cameraman: Hong Xiang Zhang

Hundreds of offshore wind turbines are being built in close proximity to the habitat of endangered white dolphins, as a cetacean scholar tries to find a balance between development and marine ecology.

Director: Evgeny Bezborodov

Cameraman: Mikhail Ovsyannikov

Franz Josef Land. Northbrook Island. Cape Flora. In 2017, the remains of an ancient yacht were discovered here. With the help of divers, it was possible to examine the yacht and raise from the bottom of the sea a number of amazing finds – household items, ship rigging.
What kind of yacht is this? How did she end up in the Arctic? And what happened to those who reached the shores of Franz Josef Land on it?

Director: Cyril Verrier

Cameraman: Cyril Verrier

In the field, we accompany a biologist responsible for the implementation of renaturation solutions, the most coherent with the activities already present. A series of hedgerows is a typical means of providing food and shelter for small mammals involved in an ecosystem that includes cultivated fields and wild lands. Compromises are made to allow continued passage with farm machinery. The viewer discovers that it is possible to observe significant changes in biodiversity if one is attentive to the smallest phenomena, such as the return of butterflies that had disappeared. Through the testimonies of involved farmers, we learn that synergies between animals, plants and farms increasingly make it possible to do without chemical substitutes, those that have long accompanied the productivist approach on which agriculture is still largely dependent.

Director: Julia Byvsheva

Cameramen: Yury Dorokhin, Andrey Zakablukovsky

In petroglyphs the intellectual world of the ancient people, their views and ideas about the world around them and about themselves, their thinking and awareness are reflected more clear and brighter than in anything else that deals with archaeology. And we can stop for a while, stand still and literally touch Eternity.

Director: Oriol Cervera Subirats

Cameraman: Oriol Cervera Subirats

It is well known that the life cycle of nature, even for humans, consists of being born, getting food to grow strong, reproduce as much as possible and finally die... But who said there was no time to have fun on the way? "The Games Animals Play" is a journey around the world to explore the reasons that lead animals to enjoy themselves, if by any chance, they need any reasons to.

Director: Michael Schlamberger

Cameraman: Michael Schlamberger

Director: Elena Turintseva

Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Sergey Vladimirovich Pyzhyanov devoted his whole life to the study of birds on Lake Baikal. His special love is gulls, terns and other waterfowl nesting on very picturesque but inaccessible islands. In the summer, the professor cannot be found at home – regardless of the availability or lack of funding, he goes to the islands to do the usual work of an ornithologist - to take into account nesting sites, birds and collect materials for laboratory analysis.

The professor looks forward to the future with hope and says that he will continue his work with both birds and students. Pyzhyanov's example teaches the main thing – to love nature, understanding it.

Director: Natacha Boutkevitch

This is a place, a modest garden by the countryside, in the pre-Alps. We follow its evolution through the seasons. Every day, for 40 years, the couple who cultivate this plot of land, record the small and major events of the life of this garden, in order to always better adjust to it.

Director: Komeil Soheili, Jooyoung Kim

The last child of Jeju's creator is the only one aware of the damage others pose to the island. But he is too weak to make a difference. In another part of the world, a hero is on a journey to passing seven obstacles that ruined the forest. We journey to these regions in present time through these stories and encounter numerous environmental problems they are enduring.

Director: Angelo Camba

There is only one war that deserves to be fought: that one for the environment. OUTLAW GARDENERS shows the battles of an unauthorized movement that is planting a revolution in Italy.

Director: Arina Kosmina

Shaman, Priest, UAZ Driver and Grandmother Valya are residents of the village of Khuzhir, the only settlement on the island of Olkhon in the middle of Lake Baikal. The characters of the film talk about their lives and the problems they face while living in a special place. The main character is Lake Baikal, which gives people the strength and faith to cope with all difficulties.

Director: Daria Razumnikova

Little Andrey grows up in a family of ornithologists and dreams of studying birds and their language. But one day he finds out that the birds on Lake Baikal are in danger.

Director: Juan Antonio Rodríguez Llano

Hawks go over 300 km/h in the air. Cheetahs reach 110 km/h galloping on the ground. In the same places, along with the mentioned elite athletes, we discover some beings that live immersed in a slowness that can irritate us. How can nature bet on two such different strategies, these two contradictory ways of life? Speed and slowness mean different bodies, conflicting lives, contradictory evolution... It may seem like an unfair fight where the fastest are the winners, but it is not always like that.

Director: Sophie Réthoré

Tom has just turned 70 years old. His home is his van. He’s travelling around Europe to conduct workshops and help people who have decided to build their own houses by themselves with bales and mud. I’m travelling with him. As we are on the road, i Wonder about his way of living in the world and what is the real meaning of « feeling at home ».

Director: Anna Ganshina

«To see a snow leopard is to see God». It’s a film about the search of the snow leopard - a beautiful and rare animal. There are only a few thousand of them left on the planet. Most of the animals have been given names but almost no one has seen them. This is a story about the mystery of human’s contact with another life, with wild nature, and the search for the lost source of inner strength. Scientists, hunters, shamans, tourists - the leopard sees them, but they do not see him.

Director: Lilia Dmitrik

А small population of Przewalski's wild horses lives in their natural habitat, in the steppe on the territory of the state nature reserve Orenburg. Researchers are reintroducing the species to one day release the animals into the wild. So far, this is impossible: without a human, the species is threatened with extinction. «Visual Strip» reflects two views of

reality: a horse and a man.