Guardians of the Rainforest

Marianna Beltrami, Lia Beltrami

| Italy

| 00:52:00

4:00pm Saturday 1st March 2025

Amazon, Congo Basin, Borneo. A journey across rainforests. A collective song of Indigenous women’s voices as they share their stories, what the forest means to their very being, their fears in a reality of socio-ecological destruction, and their hopes for constructing something different.

Programme

Invisible barriers

"Invisible Barriers" looks at the lives of three young people with functional diversity: Ylenia, LoriÃ©n and Elson have to face architectural barriers in their daily lives and in their educational environment, as well as other more hidden barriers.

Dolls

A coming of age comedy, set in the early 00s, Dolls tells the story of Cherry and her unsolicited collection of judgemental porcelain dolls as she explores her transition into sexual maturity and faces the anguish of leaving her childhood behind.

We’ve Been Bamboozled!

Recent revelations show that the fossil fuel industries, over the course of many decades, sponsored scientific research about the potential consequences of burning fossil fuels on the earth's environment, which concluded that the impact would be 'dramatic' and...

Crip/Mad Archive Dances

How do disabled and mad people survive, dance, insert their differences in a world full of stigma? How do we live through bodymindspirit experiences of alienation and pain? This experimental documentary charts disability culture archives and embodied gestures of...

A_biography

How can a person suffering from Alzheimer's still tell their own life? In the common room of an Alzheimer's clinic, music from the radio mixes with the low volume clatter of plates, the steps, the door movements or the quiet click of a light switch. The acoustic...

Whale Wash – The Forgotten Whale

A maritime investigations team led by ESPA's Chief Operating Officer Pete Carr, pursues Norwegian whaling vessels at sea and films the whalers unethical hunting methods, and ESPA investigator Hannah interviews marine biologists, whaling experts and whaler skippers, to...