Maturation
Iranian teenagers have different judgments about Iran. A group of female students get to know a knowledge-based company during a field trip. After this scientific tour, they talk about the effects of this tour on their own thoughts.
One of the world's most precious resources is at risk. This film will help others learn what is at stake and what can be done to protect the source of nearly all our food: SEEDS. While the price of gold and oil skyrockets the fate of our most priceless commodity is ignored. Seeds provide the basis for everything from fabric, to food to fuels. They are as essential to life as the air we breathe or water we drink... but given far less attention. Over the past one hundred years, seeds have steadily shifted from being common heritage to sovereign property. This film tells the story of seeds by following the challenges and triumphs of some of their most tireless stewards and advocates.
La Guerre des Graines
A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.
Coming back from her bachelor party in Las Vegas, Christine and her friends are driving through the hot desert of Nevada. But they are not alone - serial killer Max Seed is back and he brought the whole family.
In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.
The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.
Guardaram Por Nós
Geologist Ian Stewart explain in three stages of natural history the crucial interaction of our very planet's physiology and its unique wildlife. Biological evolution is largely driven bu adaptation to conditions such as climate, soil and irrigation, but biotopes were also shaped by wildlife changing earth's surface and climate significantly, even disregarding human activity.
A climbing, coiling, trailing vine. Inescapable growth. It smothers that which it climbs.
How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest conservator become Monsanto’s worst nightmare? The Seeds of Vandana Shiva tells the remarkable life story of Gandhian eco-activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, how she stood up to the corporate Goliaths of industrial agriculture, rose to prominence in the regenerative food movement, and inspired an international crusade for change.
The one, the only, the biggest hare in Hollywood: Bugs Bunny – his greatest chases, funniest situations and all essential appearances are here: from his breakthrough cartoons through classic clashes with co-stars Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig to his Oscar-nominated (and winning) animated shorts. Directed by legendary animators Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng and Tex Avery, this definitive collection puts everything you need to know about Bugs into one animated archive. Twelve theatrical shorts include the first time he asks, “What’s up Doc?” and his intergalactic meeting with Marvin the Martian. Also included are some of Bugs’ rarest appearance, included TV shows, TV specials and shorts never-before released for the home
Overlength Hotel is a co-tribute to Michael Snow’s "Wavelength" from 1967 and Stanley Kubrick's 1980 adaption of Steven King’' 1977 horror novel, "The Shining". For those familiar with both works the last 2-3 minutes of "The Shining" seem almost like a Fair Use settlement to "Wavelength" or maybe artistic borrowing.
Am I the rain or the sun, a boy or a girl, a dream or a reality, a film or myself?
"Sun Plant Hands" is a found footage film that explores the interactions between land and people in an agricultural framework. Through imagery of vegetable growing and footage of the United Farm Workers movement, the film calls into focus the dichotomies between land, plants and people. Made possible through the Basement Films Artist in Residency program in Albuquerque, New Mexico. All the footage in this film is 16mm educational films that are part of the Basement Films archive.
A window opens on a child who lives in a war torn area where he longs for his past peaceful life.
Short animation by Alexandre Siqueira