Jennifer Abbott | Canada | 2020
85 min | CC Available
SPOTLIGHT EVENT: OPENING FILM
Co-presented by Telefilm Canada
In partnership with ReSurge Film Festival

Personal and profound loss merge in this exploration of grief as a call to action for the planet. Grief on this scale touches everything. But coming to terms with the brutal reality of climate breakdown requires more than empty words and gestures. When hope is lost, the real work begins.

Everett Bumstead | Canada | 2020
44 min

What does it take to plant? It is more complex than it seems, both environmentally and socially. Every spring, thousands of Canadians leave the comfort of their homes to live rough in remote bush camps planting hundreds of millions of trees collectively. This is their journey.

William Johansson Kalén & Lars Edman | Sweden & Chile | 2020
95 min | Partial Subtitles
CANADIAN PREMIER

Toxic Colonialism - the export of waste material from rich to poor countries - is on trial, when a Swedish mining company is taken to trial for the toxic waste dumped in the Chilean desert town of Arica. This is the story of an afflicted community fighting for justice.

Jeffrey Garriock | Canada | 2020
31 min | CC Available

In the Galapagos Islands, a group of scientists works to understand the movements of the world's largest fish - the whale shark.

Oliver Sutro | USA | 2020
12 min

James Sampsel, a plein air painter and fly-fishing guide, comes to terms with his past and a bi-polar diagnosis that hangs over his future.

Leigh Joseph & Trevor Dixon Bennett | Canada | 2020
23 min
Co-presented by Hot Docs
SPOTLIGHT EVENT

Styawat/Leigh Joseph is a Sḵwxw̱ú7mesh Nation ethnobotanist who grew up away from her traditional territory of Squamish, B.C. Joseph navigates walking between academic and cultural worlds, as she contemplates her relationship with plants and their role as teachers.