Events

TICKETS Friday, July 17 at 4:00 PM In Brazil’s Amazon, fearless Indigenous leader Juma Xipaia defends her land and people against forces threatening their survival. Her extraordinary courage and resilience is captured here—as mother, warrior, and a symbol of resistance for her people. The film follows the life and activism of Juma Xipaia, an Indigenous […]

TICKETS Friday, July 17 at 4:30PM Between 1957 and 1958, Robert Bateman and Bristol Foster undertook the adventure of a lifetime — driving a Land Rover dubbed “the Grizzly Torque” 30,000 kilometres across Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and Australia. More than just an adrenaline-pumping adventure story of two young men crossing half the planet, The […]

TICKETS Friday, July 17 at 7:00PM Discussion afterwards with director Oren Jacoby via Zoom As extreme weather around the world grows deadlier, a new generation of leaders is rising to face the challenges. In the American South, hard hit by climate disasters, three unlikely heroes take on one of the most powerful industries in the […]

TICKETS Friday, July 17 at 7:30PM Followed by a pre-recorded Zoom conversation with director Max Keegan Set high in the majestic French Pyrenees, THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR explores a conflict provoked by the reintroduction of brown bears in the midst of a traditional shepherding community. The film follows an aging shepherd who struggles to […]

TICKETS THE BIRDS Told through the cinematic experience of wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn, THE BIRDS finds meaning and pathos as it gets up close to one of England’s little-known wonders of the natural world. As Martin chases down the twisting and turning of giant flocks of shore birds on England’s Wash estuary, he attempts to […]

TICKETS Finalists of short films Program curated from over 100 submissions to the festival in 2026 - An eclectic mix of environmental Advocacy, Wildlife conservation, and artistic expressions of nature and what it all means to us. 2026 SELECTIONS: TALKING TO THE SUN TALKING TO THE SUN is a short documentary of astronomical proportions joining […]

TICKETS Director Abby ellis will join us in person Climate Change Doc From Leonardo DiCaprio, Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi Raises Alarms About the Fate of the Great Salt Lake An environmental nuclear bomb looms in Utah, as they race to prevent a catastrophic ecological and public health collapse. The Lake is a vérité film […]

TICKETS Q&A with Director Casey Carter Seconds of exposure, generations of debate, the history of nations, and epochs of geologic change – all overlap in the landscapes that define the American nuclear legacy and the quest to isolate 77,000 tons of nuclear waste for 10,000 years. TO USE A MOUNTAIN presents vignettes of ruin and […]

TICKETS Filmmaker Hillary Bachelder and Colorado Fire Suppression Professionals will join us for a discussion Prescribed fire– the practice of setting small burns to clear ecosystems of overgrowth– is a critical tool for climate resiliency and forest health. But in 2022, a burn set by the U.S. Forest Service in the mountains of northern New […]

TICKETS In his inimitable way, Geyrhalter (OUR DAILY BREAD, HOMO SAPIENS) travels the world of snow and ice. From Japan to the Alps, Northern Canada to Iceland, and Antarctica; MELT is the story of people living amid the gradual disappearance of the ice that was once presumed infinite. Along the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route in […]

CLOSING FILM & RECEPTION TICKETS     CLOSING FILM ONLY TICKETS Closing Night Film at Dairy Arts Center, Includes Award Presentation, Closing Film (OCEAN) and Reception at VELVET ELK LOUNGE on 13th Street. Film at 4:00PM at Dairy Arts Center Gordon Gamm Theater THE LAST DIVE. Reception from 6:15PM to 8:15PM at Velvet Elk Lounge, on 13th […]