Produced by: Elefant Films (India)

Directed by: Vikram Singh

Logline: “Swimming camels, traveling caravans and nomadic customs collide with extractive capitalism in this portrait of a pastoralist family on the front-lines of India’s brutal march towards becoming a global economic powerhouse.”

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Produced by: Abstract Nomadic Media (United States)

Directed by: Sisa Bueno

Logline: “Via the poetry of Venida Browder, whose transcendent son Kalief Browder became the face of a movement for incarceration reform, this film presents their humanizing story shifting their legacy from their tragic deaths to their lives and afterlives.”

Produced by: Purple Mango Pictures Limited (Kenya)

Directed by: Karanja Ng’endo

Logline: “In the aftermath of a devastating drought, a young Maasai student and their family must rebuild their lives while navigating the challenges of education and preserving their traditional way of life.”

Produced by: Sybilla Patrizia (Japan)

Directed by: Sybilla Patrizia 

Logline: “From the hands of Tokyo’s trash collectors all the way to a rural Zero Waste village—we follow social trailblazers as they unravel decades of unsustainable practices that have led Japan to become one of the world’s worst, hidden plastic polluters, sparking a search for radical ideas that may save us, and our planet, from a plastic-wrapped future…”

Produced by: The Moving Visuals Co. PTE Ltd (Singapore), Deepak Bara (India)

Directed by: Deepak Bara

Logline: “Chernobyl. Fukushima. Beyond war, the world has seen how the deadly effects of radiation can wreak havoc on people and the environment. But in a sleepy hamlet of India, we investigate a more insidious and overlooked issue that has affected the local population for decades. Is this a massive cover up or larger catastrophe in the making?”

Produced by: Cinephage (France), Petra Pan Films (Slovenia)

Directed by: Jean-Robert Viallet

Logline: “Adaptation: the process of changing to suit different conditions. In the wake of the climate crisis, it means changing our way of life to survive its consequences. Is Climate change adaptation a pragmatic new answer or a solution chosen decades ago?”

Produced by: H2L Productions Inc. (Canada), Myna Ishulutak (Canada)

Directed by:  Stacey Tenenbaum

Logline: “Tough Old Broads follows three trailblazing women as they continue to make waves into their older years. With determination and grit, these ladies shed light on what it takes to make it in a ‘man’s world’ and what old age looks like when you’re a self-described tough old broad.”

Produced by: Noyakar Productions (Bangladesh), House on Fire (France)

Directed by: Farid Ahmad

Logline: “Bangladesh is the largest river delta in the world where devastating floods occur every summer. When winter arrives, an island reappears in the Jamuna River and a homeless single mother struggles for her dignity, freedom and for a safe home in a world where all odds are against her.“

Produced by: Uhuru Productions (South Africa), LUFILMS (France)

Directed by: Franco Clerc

Logline: “Hit by recurring cyclones, droughts and floods, Madagascar is the first country to experience climate induced famine. A filmmaker sets out to show the rest of the world what is coming if we don’t act on climate. But instead of finding despair, he finds hope in the young activists, from some of the country’s most remote villages.”

Produced by: Afrofilms international (Kenya), 10th Street Films Llc (United States)

Directed by: Zippy Kimundu

Logline: “Thrown out of her home and off her land by her in-laws, a Kenyan widow becomes a fighter for women’s land rights in a deeply patriarchal community. “Widow Champion” Rhoda leads other women to fight for what is rightfully theirs, her story exposing the rift between modern and traditional beliefs.“