Screenings

This road-movie type film follows a young disenchanted generation on its quest for wisdom and common sense. Combining the messages of a cell biologist, an urban gardener, a travelling shaman and a singer, president of an NGO, Marc and Nathanaël invite us to share their questions and vision of the world. This documentary was co-produced thanks to a crowdfunding campaign that mobilised 963 internet users. It is independently distributed by the organisation Kamea Meah.

Unlocking the Cage follows animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans. Steve and his legal team, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), are making history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform an animal from a thing with no rights to a person with legal protections.

Blackfish tells the story of Tilikum, a performing killer whale that killed several people while in captivity. Along the way, director-producer Gabriela Cowperthwaite compiles shocking footage and emotional interviews to explore the creature’s extraordinary nature, the species’ cruel treatment in captivity, the lives and losses of the trainers and the pressures brought to bear by the multi-billion dollar sea-park industry. This emotionally wrenching, tautly structured story challenges us to consider our relationship to nature and reveals how little we humans have learned from these highly intelligent and enormously sentient fellow mammals.