"The best film made to date on the elf subject"
(Terry Gunnell, Assoc. Professor of Folklore at University of Iceland)

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Huldufólk 102
(Iceland, 2006, 74 mins.) Asian Premiere

Beneath the quiet veneer of Iceland lies an invisible nation of huldufólk (hidden people). This fascinating phenomenon, rarely discussed with outsiders, not only pervades Icelandic culture, but also impacts its infrastructure (e.g. road construction and buildings). This enlightening journey, through Iceland’s celestial and mysterious environment, suspends one’s state of reality – forcing the viever to question his own perceptual limitations and the mysteries of the natural world.

Delving further into the stories of the hidden people, it is impossible not to consider the impact of the geographic position and isolation of this mysterious,   celestial island of Iceland. Winter’s darkness allows the dazzling and supernatural Northern Lights to pervade the country with its amorphous shapes; casting brilliant colors of yellow, pink, and green downward to the land below. Black lava rocks, green mossy rocks, geysers, volcanoes, and glaciers all play their role in this mystical landscape, where the wind, snow and light show the power of nature. These spectacular displays reveal the paradoxes that man must contend with – the simplicity of things that we see on a daily basis versus the complexity of things we are unable to see within the world.

www.huldufolk102.com

"To start the process of change there is no better tool than curiosity and Tapped certainly asks all the right questions"
(David de Rothschild)

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"There is enough water for human need, but not for human greed..."

Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig's debut feature is an unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water.

From the producers of Who Killed the Electric Car and I.O.U.S.A., this timely documentary is a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never become a commodity: our water.

From the plastic production to the ocean so many of these bottles end up in, this inspiring doc trails the path of the bottled water industry and the communities which were the unwitting chips on the table. A powerful portrait of the lives affected by the bottled water industry, this revelatory doc shows those caught at the intersection of big business and the public's right to water.

www.tappedthemovie.com

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The Age of Stupid is the new cinema documentary from the Director of McLibel and the Producer of the Oscar-winning One Day in September. This enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching 'archive' footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance?

www.ageofstupid.net

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PolyCultures: Food Where We Live is a feature-length documentary movie that portrays the diverse communities around Northeast Ohio coming together to grow a more sustainable and local food system that's good for the health of individuals, communities, local economies, and the environment. It features many national and international experts who place area food production in the bigger picture of sustainability. The term "polyculture" refers to the ecologically-minded technique of growing a diversity of crops/animals on one farm, but it also represents the documentary’s participants coming from very different backgrounds to arrive at similar conclusions and take coordinated action. The aesthetic is a mix of "agrarian" camera techniques portraying post-industrial Cleveland and surrounding farmland, symbolizing the ground-level nature of this movement.

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