UFM TEAM AWARD
Beyond Borders
Director: Environmental Justice Foundation
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 24:52
Synopsis
Across the planet, lives are changing as climate collapse alters the world around us. The worst impacts are being felt disproportionately by poor people who already live under precarious conditions and are now forced to adapt or relocate to survive. As a result, one person every 1.3 seconds leaves their home and their community due to climate-related impacts. Bitterly, their stories rarely reach the global community. But hearing them is crucial for us all. Only by grasping the scope of the climate breakdown and understanding the personal implications of this collective tragedy, can we propose solutions that are both effective and just. “Beyond Borders” profiles the people behind the statistics by providing the space for the stories of global heating witnesses from the Arctic to Bangladesh. It also features politicians and academics who help understand the complex link between the climate breakdown, international migration and violent conflict.
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Genre Awards
Aral
Director: Benoît Paya, Charles Morhain, Mathilde Dallamaggiore, Cédric Moens de Hase, Aurélien Lemonnier
Country: France
Runtime: 4:53
Synopsis
Hayes, an american scout, is sent on a mission to track a radar beacon in the contaminated zone of the Aral
desert. However, our hero is going to encounter some unexpected difficulties…
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Giants
Director: Eddy Bell
Country: Australia
Runtime: 14:51
Synopsis
Intermittently filmed on the same farm over a period of 18 months, Giants plays out amongst the changing landscape of the worst drought in Australia’s history. Green to yellow to a red Mars like dust bowl. Luke thinks the drought is breaking. So he doesn’t de-stock as planned, but instead get’s his herd ready to calve in the spring. His family are the lucky ones, they’re on good country. If Luke gets up early and works hard, they’ll be rewarded. It’s always been that way. But, the rain doesn’t come. Luke is forced to wonder what’s happened to the good country inside his fence.
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In Winter We Don't Freeze
Director: Reinis Spaile
Country: Latvia
Runtime: 02:11
Synopsis
A tribute to deteriorating winters. A visual essay about frost and different ways of how people keep themselves warm. The compilation of scenes captures the life of northern people reflecting how the harsh weather tests the human spirit. The film is made with a slight addition of sentiment considering that we might be the last generation experiencing the raw beauty of winter season.
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Moon Keeper
Director: Axel Alvarez, Artur Amanatiou, Léo Cohen, Nicolas Gresland, Michael Raux, Maxime Richard
Country: France
Runtime: 05:20
Synopsis
Carl is the janitor of the moon and he has always taken care of it. He is annoyed by cleaning the trash of the lunar american missions sent by the Earth. One day, when a new type of galactic traveler comes to his moon, he quickly understands that a cohabitation won’t be possible…
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Mother Nature
Director: Jennifer Gentet
Country: Nigeria
Runtime: 04:11
Synopsis
This video Mother Nature highlights the dangers of climate change to mother earth and why mankind should change its way of environmental degradation, with emphasis on world leaders to save planet earth by implementing and abiding by all the climate change agreements to save our world for future generations.
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Seven
Director: Lesley Manning
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 01:30
Synopsis
A group of seven year olds talk about their future birthdays. A film about climate breakdown.
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What Lives Below
Director: Zachary Zollinger, David Asambadze
Country: United States
Runtime: 7:32
Synopsis
Climate change invites chaos as the earth’s core reaches record number levels waking up an ancient evil that lives underground.
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The Green Thread
Director: Vanessa Cardui
Country: Germany
Runtime: 06:37
Synopsis
A piece of thread is cut off again and again from a ball of wool until almost nothing is left of it and in the end, life only hangs on a very thin, short thread. The pictorial metaphor of the increasingly smaller ball of wool shows the finiteness of our natural resources. Everything is connected to one another by the same green thread. The same thread that shapes the planet also draws the silhouette of man and gives him its shape. So basically we are all hanging by the same thread that holds us and the world together. When man cuts off something from the great ball of wool on his planet, he ultimately cuts himself too, and everything he does to the planet, he ultimately does to himself.With the animation film the artist creates awareness for our actions and shows the meaningfulness and ultimately the necessity of climate protection in a sensual way. And despite the severity of the problem, she opposes a lightness and aesthetic that makes a positive rethink possible.
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The Pleasure of Killing Bugs
Director: Leonardo Martinelli
Country: Brazil
Runtime: 10:00
Synopsis
In the near future, the climate crisis reaches an irreversible point. A nun and a priest meet to talk about the disappearance of insects.
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Tomorrow
Director: Mohammad Shihab Uddin
Country: Bangladesh
Runtime: 25:27
Synopsis
Ratul, a young boy in Bangladesh, is magically shown two very different visions of the future. In the first scenario, Bangladesh has been inundated by rising sea levels, causing great suffering; in the second scenario, fossil fuels have been replaced by renewable energy, and Bangladesh is prosperous. The purpose of this film is to teach children about fossil fuels and climate change.
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The Promise
Director: Chi Thai
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 6:44
Synopsis
The Promise is an urban fairy tale that plays out on the mean streets of a mean city. Here, a young thief tries to snatch an old woman’s bag but she cannot have it without giving something in return: The Promise.
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Better Half
Director: Jürgen Heimüller
Country: Germany
Runtime: 11:48
Synopsis
Halve the world’s population to save the planet? A great idea, say politicians, experts and ordinary people from the street. But who should go? A fictional documentary about the abysses of our civil society.
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Dive Tierra Bomba Dive
Director: Joya Berrow, Lucy Jane
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 10:29
Synopsis
A young woman emerges as a leader on her Colombian island to save the reef that’s vital to its survival. A 19 year-old woman, Yassandra Barrios who emerges as the environmental leader of her island. She learns to dive, studies Marine Biology, rallies the fishermen and young people to bring awareness to protecting their marine ecosystem. She inspires those around her with a vision of a more secure future for their island home.
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L'Orée
Director: Renaud Tissandié, Bastien Garbuio, Raphaël Laffitte, Mickaël Boixadera, Jonathan Martinez
Country: France
Runtime: 05:02
Synopsis
Alice is an artist lacking inspiration. She creates environnements with the help of a futuristic technology which materializes them in front of her. She persists in one of her projects and ends up being trapped in her own creation. Against all odds she finds there a new creative inspiration.
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Thermostat 6
Director: Maya Av-ron, Mylène Cominotti, Marion Coudert, Sixtine Dano
Country: France
Runtime: 02:35
Synopsis
Diane can’t ignore anymore the leak coming from the ceiling above the family diner.
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Congratulations!
Thank you to each and everyone one of you for paticipating in the unified filmmakers festival and congratulations on the respective rewards. You earned it! We can’t wait to see you in our next festival!
UFM Team