Saturday, March 4, 10 a.m. CST
In Person, Oak Park Public Library
Oak Park, IL [W Suburbs]

Saturday, March 4, 10 a.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

We welcome our youngest environmentalists to join us for four award-winning short films, engaging discussions, and an interactive Weather Jam! At-home Watch Party attendees, bring some fun handheld instruments or noisemakers to the virtual screening, to join us as we jam.

CLOUD CHAOS
Athena Ousley/2021/2 min/Wildlife, Family

COOL FOR YOU
Sherene Strausberg/2022/3 min/Climate Change, Family

HUSH HUSH LITTLE BEAR [Čuči čuči]
Māra Liniņa/2022/4 min/Wildlife,Family

SWEET COCOON
Matéo Bernard, Matthias Bruget, Jonathan Duret, Manon Marco, Quentin Puiraveau/2014/6 min/Wildlife, Family

Tickets available to North American viewers only.

Saturday, March 4, 10:45 a.m. CST
In Person, Oak Park Public Library
Oak Park , IL [W Suburbs]

Saturday, March 4, 10:45 a.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

Young environmentalists, join us for three award-winning short films and discussion, where we'll get loud about our planet! We'll also settle in to contemplate and celebrate the power of creativity, art, and nature.

BIRTH OF FORM [Kuumba Umbo]
Ekaterina Ogorodnikova/2021/7 min/People & Culture, Wildlife, Historical Perspectives, Family

CRACKED
Mahmut Taş/2021/5 min/Water, Climate Change, Family

HARGILA
Gerrit Vyn/2022/28min/Wildlife, Conservation, People & Culture, Environmental Advocacy, Family

Lucas Sabean, Peter Hutchison/2021/82 min/Health & Environment, Energy, Historical Perspectives

Sunday, March 5, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

MIDWEST PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: Uniquely structured upon the personal storytelling of native West Virginians, “Devil Put The Coal In The Ground” is a meditation on the suffering and devastation brought on by the coal industry and its decline. From the realities of a crumbling economy, to the ravages of the opioid epidemic, to the irreparable environmental damage and its tragic impact on human health—the film is a cautionary tale of unfettered corporate power, and an elegy to a vanishing Appalachia.

Friday, March 10, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, North Park Village
Nature Center, Chicago , IL [North]

Friday, March 10, 6:30 p.m.
In Person, Windsor Park Evangelical
Lutheran Church, Chicago, IL [South]

Friday, March 10, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, Euclid Ave. United
Methodist Church, Oak Park [W Suburbs]

Friday, March 10, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, Four Rivers Environmental
Education Ctr., Channahon [Will County]

Friday, March 10, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

THE FALCONER

Annie Kaempfer/2021/75 min/Wildlife, Conservation, Environmental & Social Justice, Youth

FILM DESCRIPTION: This intimate portrait film follows master falconer Rodney Stotts on his mission to build a bird sanctuary and provide access to nature for his stressed community.

MARDI & THE WHITES

Paula Champagne/2022/11 min/Wildlife, Conservation, People & Culture, Youth

FILM DESCRIPTION: Mardi Fuller has a rich relationship with nature that has evolved and deepened throughout her life.

Richard Dale, Nigel Walk/2021/90 min/Waste & Recycling, Built Environment

PRE-FEST
Tuesday, February 21, 5 p.m. CST
In Person, Loyola University, Chicago, IL [North]

Thursday, March 9, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, Waubonsee Com. College
Aurora, IL [Kane County]

Thursday, March 9, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, Maine South High School
Park Ridge, IL [North]
$8 Admission

Thursday, March 9, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

FILM DESCRIPTION: “Going Circular” dares to imagine a future where humankind not only survives, but flourishes, by rethinking global paradigms and respecting the limits of our planetary resources.

Meet four groundbreaking thinkers who navigate environmental, economic, and social crises of the modern age. They each discover that the solutions for creating a circular economy and planet have already been perfected in nature itself.

Lars Henrik Ostenfeld/2022/86 min/Climate Change

Monday, March 6, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, Gorton Center
Lake Forest, IL [Lake County]
$10 Admission, $5 Students

Monday, March 6, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

CHICAGO-AREA PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: Lars Henrik Ostenfeld travels to Greenland with three of the world’s leading glaciologists to see just how fast the ice sheet is melting, and to understand the consequences of climate change. The ice at the poles is melting, which will result in enormous rises in sea level and have major consequences for the world. But how fast will it really go?

In the Greenland ice sheet we can see our future. The film travels with pioneering glaciologists on their expeditions into the inland ice of Greenland. Top-notch science meets breathtaking visuals when one of them descends into a 200 meter deep moulin hole to find out about the bottom of the ice sheet. What they find may sound the alarm for our planet's climate and is a clear call to act now.

Tickets available to U.S. viewers only.

Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, Southeast Environmental
Task Force, Chicago, IL [South]

Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, McKinley Park Fieldhouse, Chicago, IL [South]

Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Oak Park, IL [W Suburbs]

Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

NO CLIMATE. NO EQUITY. NO DEAL.

Fenell Doremus, Danny Alpert/2022/21 min/Environmental & Social Justice, Climate Change, Energy, Environmental Advocacy

FILM DESCRIPTION: This film follows the grassroots movements in Illinois that led to the passage of the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act. 

WASTELAND: IOWA

Elisa Gambino/2022/28 min/Environmental & Social Justice, Health & Environment, Environmental Advocacy, Food & Agriculture

FILM DESCRIPTION: For more than 150 years farmers in Iowa have been raising corn & pigs and the people of Iowa have been drinking untreated water from rivers polluted with nitrogen fertilizers, pesticides and livestock excrement.

Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso/2022/77 min/Energy, Environmental & Social Justice, People & Culture, Historical Perspectives

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
VIEW & BREW
Wednesday, March 8, 6:30 p.m.
In Person, Pilot Project Brewing
Chicago, IL [North]
$25 Admission

Wednesday, March 8, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, Oak Park Public Library
Oak Park, IL [W Suburbs]

Wednesday, March 8, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

CHICAGO-AREA PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: A young Navajo filmmaker investigates displacement of Indigenous people and devastation of the environment caused by the same chemical companies that have exploited the land where she was born. On this personal and political journey she learns from Indigenous activists across three continents.

Tickets available to North American viewers only.

Camilla Becket, James Becket/2021/82 min/Historical Perspectives, Food & Agriculture, Environmental Advocacy, People & Culture

Saturday, March 4, 6:30 p.m. CST
In Person, First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple, Chicago [Central]

Saturday, March 4, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

FILM DESCRIPTION: From the Himalayan forests to the Sydney Peace Prize: how environmental activist, author and Indian scientist Dr. Vandana Shiva became the rock star of the organic food movement.

Impressed by Einstein at an early age, Shiva studied physics then philosophy in India and Canada. She came to understand that science cannot be ‘one-eyed' and must consider all elements at play. This attitude led her to form Navdanya in 1991, a national movement to protect living resources. The grassroots initiative established over 40 seed banks across India, and her galvanizing activism put her at loggerheads with GMO multinational Monsanto and others. Not just a voice for the environment, Shiva also championed social justice, farmers' and women's rights. In 2010, she was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize.

Tickets available globally except to viewers in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.

Rachel Lears/2022/106 min/Environmental Advocacy, Climate Change, Youth

VIEW & BREW
Sunday, March 12, 11 a.m. CDT
In Person, Tavern at Haymarket Pub & Brewery, Chicago, IL [West]
$25 Admission

Sunday, March 12, 11 a.m. CDT
In Person, The Well Spirituality Center
LaGrange Park, IL [W Suburbs]

Sunday, March 12, 11 a.m. CDT
Virtual Watch Party

FILM DESCRIPTION: Filmed over four years of hope and crisis, “To the End” captures the emergence of a new generation of leaders and the movement behind the most sweeping climate change legislation in U.S. history. The award-winning team follows four exceptional young women— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, activist Varshini Prakash, climate policy writer Rhiana Gunn-Wright, and political strategist Alexandra Rojas—as they grapple with new challenges of leadership and power and work together to defend their generation’s right to a future.

Alejandro Loayza Grisi/2022/87 min/Water, People & Culture

Saturday, March 11, 6:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Watch Party

FILM DESCRIPTION: This visually jaw-dropping debut feature by photographer-turned-filmmaker Alejandro Loayza Grisi is lensed by award-winning cinematographer Barbara Alvarez (Lucrecia Martel’s “The Headless Woman”) and won the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema Dramatic) at the Sundance Film Festival.

In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the city. Their dilemma is precipitated by the arrival of their grandson Clever, who comes to visit with news.

Tickets available to viewers in the state of Illinois only.