FOR BETTER LAND • 2020
DIRECTOR: Zhang Zhikun
COUNTRY: China
RUNTIME: '74
SYNOPSIS: Ma Yanwei, Master of Ecology from Beijing Normal University, came to Alxa League which is covered by deserts in Inner Mongolia. After leaving the SEE conservation in Alxa, the most influential environmental organization, he set his own "For Better Land" farm.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Doc
FEATURE DOCS
A POSTCARD FROM PYONGYANG
• 2019
DIRECTOR: Gregor Moellers, Anne Lewald
COUNTRY: Germany
RUNTIME: '80
SYNOPSIS: By blending travelogue and espionage, A POSTCARD FROM PYONGYANG captures what happens when you rely solely on what you see, not what you’re told, and reveals what Kim Jong-Un’s regime doesn’t want foreigners to see... reality.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Doc
LAST CALL FOR TOMORROW • 2020
DIRECTOR: Gary Null, Valerie Van Cleve
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: '93
SYNOPSIS: Last Call for Tomorrow, reflects on the crisis facing all life on Earth. We are witnessing the 6th Mass Extinction of our planet.
We are loosing about 200 species a day. Humanity has killed 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants.
Of the birds left in the world, 70% are poultry chickens and other farmed birds. Global industrial pollution is killing over 9 million people a year, through bad air and water.
What recourse can the people take, when there are no effective institutions to deal with the global one world order.
We face a clear choice: radical political transformation or deepening mass extinction.
To secure a sustainable future, we must change how we think, who we are, and how we live.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Doc