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Genre: Environmental


An older man with gray hair and glasses lounges by a pool in a white robe with a book and a glass of wine, the bottle is set on a tray next to him.

Burgundy

Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw

This playful, crisp, and charming documentary captures the haute société of a French vineyard at a moment of generational change.

Carl Sagan, a man with short dark hair in black-and-white smiling as he leans over a laboratory desk in a knit sweater.

Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff

Nanette Burstein

This intimate film explores the life of the visionary astronomer, author, and television star who transformed our understanding of the cosmos.

A long concrete highway bridge with a green steel arch crosses a broad river, supported by piers, there are wooded hills in the distance and the sky is overcast.

Eight Bridges

James Benning

A mesmerizing study of light, movement, and American infrastructure, this observational film contemplates a series of bridges across the United States.

Side profile portrait of a woman with a bun wearing over-ear headphones, contemplatively gazing across calm water at dusk in cool blue light.

Far From the Trees Lejos de los árboles

Meritxell Colell Aparicio

A sound artist capturing recordings across Peru is pursued by the ghosts of her family’s legacy of exile in this journey through memory and identity

Two young boys sit in warm sunlight beside a tan textured wall and screened window, they wear thoughtful expressions as they glance to the side out the window.

Will You Still Be My Friend

Po-Shun Lu

The intimate friendship of Jun and Jasper is threatened when a conflict erupts between their families in this heartfelt portrait of adolescence.

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