Earth Day x Last Day Season 10
Films to open your mind and your palate.
Dear Friends,
Happy Earth Day! One more day to catch a food doc in our virtual lineup!
In honor of this year’s theme “Our Power, Our Planet,” how about….
Paved Paradise | Runtime: 90 mins ← BRILLIANT feature
We’ve been told organic farming is the answer. A Dutch biologist isn’t so sure. Because organic farming needs far more land to grow the same amount of food, there’s less room left for nature, and agricultural land already covers 40% of the planet’s surface. Biologist Hidde Boersma and filmmaker Karsten de Vreugd set out to investigate what a real alternative might look like. Upbeat, eye-opening, and genuinely charming. 🏆 Ceres Season 8 Best Feature.
Walking with Plants | Runtime: 23 mins
Leigh Joseph (co-director) grew up far from her ancestral lands in British Columbia. Her path back, through academic study, ethnobotany, and the plants themselves, is what this film follows. An Indigenous woman guided home by the landscape. 🏆 Ceres Season 7 Best Short.
Dune Forest | Runtime: 13 mins
Landscape architect Louis De Jaeger spends seven years transforming a barren sand dune into a thriving food forest, composting, nutrient recycling, coaxing life out of infertile ground. Gorgeous in its simplicity and so very inspiring.
School of Fish | Runtime: 19 mins
In Bristol Bay, Alaska, Indigenous people and salmon have been intertwined for thousands of years. But Pebble Mine is coming, and now the kids learning to fish from their elders also have to learn to fight for the water itself. An intimate portrait of one family.
We also invite you to browse the full program, before it disappears at midnight…
Warmly,
Maayan and the Ceres Team
