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Showing 1 - 10 of 71 titles with a criteria of Subject is Forests and Rainforests
5x5: Voices of Change from the Forests of Indonesia + Hope: Indigenous Climate Change Solutions
Five short films from Indigenous communities across Indonesia show their response to threats to their forests posed by miners, loggers, palm oil plantations and global warming. In the sixth film a Dayak Iban community inspires hope as it offers a simple solution to the global climate crisis.
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Face to Face Media | 2008 | 37 minutes
Arrows Against the Wind
West Papua, the "Amazon of Asia" is a vast tropical rainforest that has been occupied for 25,000 years. The Dani and the Asmat people have lived in spiritual harmony with the land for millennia. Now they are threatened by Indonesia's policy of assimilation and the destruction of their lands. This title has one or more clips.
Face to Face Media | 1993 | 52 minutes
Arrows Against the Wind
The Dani and the Asmat come face to face with the modern world in Irian Jaya.
Bullfrog Films | 1993 | 52 minutes
Banking on Disaster
The grave consequences of building a road through the heart of Amazonia.
Bullfrog Films | 1988 | 78 minutes
Blowpipes and Bulldozers
The story of the Penan, a tribe of rainforest nomads in Borneo, as seen by Bruno Manser.
Bullfrog Films | 1989 | 60 minutes
Brazil's Women Warriors
* New title added January 2023 *
If Not Us Then Who? Film 6 of 7
400,000 women harvest the nuts of the babassu palm, which is used to produce soap, oil, bread, charcoal,and cosmetics, providing them a modest living. When access to the trees was denied, a movement began.
Face to Face Media | 2014 | 8 minutes
Building a Longhouse as a Cultural Center
* New title added January 2023 *
If Not Us Then Who? Film 2 of 7
Kynan Tegar, a young Indigenous filmmaker, documents a cultural revival and the consruction of a traditional longhouse for the first time in 50 years.
Face to Face Media | 2021 | 12 minutes
Buyer Be Fair
Looks at the benefits of fair trade goods and product certification for people and the environment.
Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 57 minutes
Children of Mavungu, Ep. 1: The Forest God
Children of Mavungu is a tough and adventurous youth documentary film about children growing up deep in the jungle of Suriname, South America.
Dutch CORE | 2023 | 17 minutes
Children of Mavungu, Ep. 2: The Rock and the Woodpecker
Children of Mavungu is a tough and adventurous youth documentary film about children growing up deep in the jungle of Suriname, South America.
Dutch CORE | 2023 | 17 minutes