GreenFlicks 2016

A selection of the best of short films on Environmental themes from around the world, screening in competition.

Screening: Sat 16 Jan, 4.30pm | Runtime: 113 min | Classification: under 15 yrs to be w/adult

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Lucens

The story of the first nuclear power plant 100% made in Switzerland…but also the last.
- Director: Marcell Barelli
- Writer: Marcell Barelli
- Producer: Nicolas Burlet
- Runtime: 7 min
- Year: 2015
- Country: Switzerland
The Race

Condemned to grow, never satisfied, humanity accelerates and rushes into a slow and limited world. What if this headlong rush was not the fruit of our free will, but the result of mechanical forces ruling the universe?
- Director: Michael Le Meur
- Writer: Michael Le Meur
- Producer: Nicolas Schmerkin
- Runtime: 16 min
- Year: 2015
- Country: France
Breaking Barriers

An inept tour guide takes a group for a walk through a future Great Barrier Reef that’s a little different from today…
- Director: Dave Wade
- Writer: Dave Wade
- Producer: Maxx Corkindale & Kelly Carpenter
- Runtime: 3 min
- Year: 2015
- Country: Australia
A Passion of Gold and Fire (Une Passion D’or Et De Feu)

A beekeeper shares his worries about the future of his apiary school. A passion of gold and fire which definitely helps our environment to keep on living.
- Director: Sébastien Pins
- Writer: Sébastien Pins
- Producer: Sébastien Pins
- Runtime: 6 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Belgium
Action for Green Africa (Action Afrique Verte)

Bintou, 8 years old, lives in a popular quarter in Bamako, Mali. She decides to clean up her street after the service of an international ONG working on environment in its school…
- Director: Eric Rivot
- Writer: Eric Rivot
- Producer: Julien Fiorentino & Eric Rivot
- Runtime: 9 min
- Year: 2015
- Country: France
Citizen to Activist

Get up, stand up! A not-so-serious guide to becoming an activist.
- Director: David Lowe, Eve Jeffery
- Writer: David Lowe
- Producer: David Lowe, Eve Jeffery
- Runtime: 5 min
- Year: 2015
- Country: Australia
Under Threat

Every fern and frog, marsupial and fungus plays a vital role in our survival.
- Director: Ruth Hessey
- Writer: Ruth Hessey
- Producer: Ruth Hessey
- Runtime: 3 min
- Year: 2015
- Country: Australia
The Atom Station

A film centred upon both the industrial and natural landscape of Iceland; interfusing the cultural, economic and ecological forces that shape the island. From vaporous hot springs and lava fields to the peculiar structures of geothermal power stations.
- Director: Nick Jordan
- Writer: Nick Jordan
- Producer: Nick Jordan
- Runtime: 13 min
- Year: 2015
- Country: United Kingdom
Burnt

In a scorched desert forest, three plant-like creatures try to cope with being physically and mentally burned. They encounter something green for the first time in memory, and it challenges them to view life differently.
- Director: Devin Bell
- Writer: Devin Bell
- Producer: Devin Bell
- Runtime: 6 min
- Year: 2015
- Country: USA
From Above

As time runs out for the Tarkine (Tasmania, Australia), an aerial cinematographer tries to capture the wild and unique images of the unprotected great wilderness.
- Director: Robin Köver
- Writer: Robin Köver
- Producer: Nick Martinelli
- Runtime: 22 min
- Year: 2014
- Country: Australia
Chaos

When the car is thrown from the cliff, the brakes are useless.
- Director: Sébastien Petit
- Writer: Sébastien Petit
- Producer: Sébastien Petit
- Runtime: 20 min
- Year: 2015
- Country: Belgium
Wrapped

A decomposing rat morphs to fungus morphs to foliage, morphs to the earth; back to a rotting apple that a rat is about to eat…
- Director: Roman Kalin, Falko Paeper & Florian Wittman
- Writer: Roman Kalin, Falko Paeper & Florian Wittman
- Producer: Catherine Ackermann, Paolo Tamburrino
- Runtime: 4 min
- Year: 2015
- Country: Germany