CANADA | AUSTRALIA | TURKEY | USA
95 min | Partial Subtitles
This series of short docs explores our connections to the land and how we create community.
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Life in the City of Dirty Water
Clayton Thomas-Müller & Spencer Mann | CANADA | 20 min
Rooted in Indigenous storytelling, a series of vignettes chronicle the traumas and triumphs that have shaped the remarkable life and work of climate justice activist Clayton Thomas-Müller.
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A Few Acres at a Time (ONTARIO PREMIER)
Will Sardinsky | USA | 7 min
Self-proclaimed "gypsy goat lady," Lani Malmberg, herds 500 goats around the Western U.S. as a form of ecological weed control.
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Providence
Erin MacIndoe Sproule | GUELPH | 15 min
A nuanced portrait of the changing landscape in response to the addition of wind turbines and their relationship with the people who live and work near them.
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Rising Puppets of The Limitless Sky (CANADIAN PREMIER)
Anıl Tour | TURKEY | 13 min
We belong to the sky as much as the earth. This poetic short documentary tells the story of a child who grew up in the shadow of the kites at Mesopotamia and the people who follow him.
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Pilliga Rising (CANADIAN PREMIER)
Mark Pearce | AUSTRALIA | 40 min
A salt-of-the-earth farmer, a crafty business owner, a young Indigenous multimedia artist, and an experienced citizen scientist rise up against a proposed coal seam gas-field in the Pilliga forest.
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Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Guelph Civic Museum
Tickets: $10/PWYC
Event: Post-screening discussion with director Erin MacIndoe Sproule (Providence).