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5x5: Voices of Change from the Forests of Indonesia + Hope: Indigenous Climate Change Solutions

*New Film Added Fall 2020*
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 cllimate crisis.

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Global Environmental Justice | 2008 | 37 minutes

Advertising Missionaries

Follows the mission of one theater company to bring the consumer revolution to the people of the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Icarus Films | 1996 | 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

Bedevil

BEDEVIL is the stunning debut feature from Tracey Moffatt (NIGHT CRIES, NICE COLORED GIRLS) and the first feature directed by an Australian Aboriginal woman.

Women Make Movies | 1996 | 90 minutes

Billion Dollar Crop

The history and advantages of hemp as an industrial fiber.

Bullfrog Films | 1996 | 55 minutes

Death of a Nation

John Pilger's horrifying expose of the West's complicity in the twenty-year genocide in East Timor.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 75 minutes

A Distant Thud in the Jungle

In Papua New Guinea, local tribes are caught in a cycle of poverty due to oil companies looking for new fields and tourists in search of exoticism.

Icarus Films | 2022 | 85 minutes

Dreams from the Outback

Once, Australia discussed whether Aboriginals belong to fauna or to human beings. Today in the Kimberley, home to various Aboriginal communities, some have given up, but others choose to fight to bring a change for the better to their people.

First Hand Films | 2019 | 79 minutes