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Earth Week Film Festival
Earth Week Film Festival: Beyond Sustainability
This year Images Cinema presents our first Earth Week Film Festival, a full week of docoumentaries that explore our complicated relationships with our planet, paired with in-depth conversations with experts in their fields, plus two narrative comedies to keep things light. Earth Week Film Festival is an expansion of our 15-year-run of Fresh Fest: A Food and Farming Film Festival.Admission for all films is free!
Earth Week Film Festival is sponsored by the Williams College Office of the President, The Green Pastures Fund, Williams College Center for Environmental Studies, Berkshire Bank, Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives, Hachette Book Group/Storey Publishing, Berkshire Environmental Consultants, the Williams Inn, Cricket Creek Farm, and Wild Oats Market..
Please join us for an Opening Reception on Friday, 4/19, 6-7pm, a Sunday evening reception on 4/21, 6-7pm, and a Closing Reception on Thu 4/25, 6-7pm.
Common Ground
(2023)
Presented by the Green Pastures Fund
Friday, April 19 at 7pm - with panel discussion
Monday, April 22 at 4:30pm
The Friday screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Gabe Brown and Morgan Hartman of Understanding Ag, Hana' Maaiah of Soul Fire Farm, moderated by Sarah Gardner of the Center for Environmental Studies at Williams College.
Sobering yet hopeful, Common Ground exposes the interconnectedness of American farming policy, politics, and illness. Follow the solution-driven plight of Regenerative Farmers as they make a case for soil health across the continent and beyond.
WALL-E
(2008)
Saturday, April 20 at 1:30pm
WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class) is the last robot left on Earth. He spends his days tidying up the planet, one piece of garbage at a time. But during 700 years, WALL-E has developed a personality, and he's more than a little lonely. Then he spots EVE, a sleek and shapely probe sent back to Earth on a scanning mission. Smitten WALL-E embarks on his greatest adventure yet when he follows EVE across the galaxy.
Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf
(2017)
Saturday, April 20 at 4pm - with an introduction by Anne O'Connor of Bee Friendly Williamstown
Tuesday, April 23 at 4:30pm
Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf
immerses viewers in Oudolf’s work and takes us inside his creative process, from his beautifully abstract sketches, to theories on beauty, to the ecological implications of his ideas. Through poetic cinematography and unique access, FIVE SEASONS will reveal all that Piet sees, and celebrate all that we as viewers have been unable to see.
Deep Rising
(2023)
Saturday, April 20 at 7pm
Followed by a discussion with Alison Cross Carter of the World Wildlife Fund
Join us on an epic journey from the deepest depths of our ocean – the most uncharted and inaccessible place on our planet – to the future of green energy, and learn how the two are inextricably linked.
Narrated and executive produced by Jason Momoa, and interwoven with awe-inspiring footage of the deep’s most dazzling creatures, Deep Rising illuminates the vital relationship between our ocean’s fragile and mysterious ecosystems, and sustaining all life on Earth.
Woman at War
(2018)
Sunday, April 21 1:30pm
Halla is a 50-year-old environmental activist who crusades against the local aluminium industry in Iceland. As her actions grow bolder, her life changes in the blink of an eye when she is finally granted permission to adopt a girl from the Ukraine.
Motherload
(2019)
Sunday, April 21 at 4pm
Followed by a discussion with Dave Cohen, Founder of VBike
Motherload
captures a new mother’s quest to understand the increasing isolation and disconnection of modern life, its planetary impact, and how cargo bikes could be an antidote.
Song of the Earth
(2023)
Monday, April 22 at 7pm
Thursday, April 25 at 4:30pm
Songs of Earth
is a majestic symphony for the big screen. The film is an audio-visual composition of the earth’s primordial forces with our camera taking you from inside nature’s smallest components to outside the wild panoramas. The filmmaker’s father (85) is our guide. Bringing us through Norway’s most scenic valley, he grew up in and where generations have been living alongside nature to survive. The sounds of the earth harmonize together to make music in this breathtaking journey.
The Story of Plastic
(2019)
Tuesday, April 23 at 7pm
Talk by Deborah Burns and Susan Abrams, both from the Beyond Plastics Speakers Bureau
The Story of Plastic
is a searing exposé revealing the ugly truth behind plastic pollution and the false solution of plastic recycling. Different from every other plastic documentary you’ve seen, The Story of Plastic presents a cohesive timeline of how we got to our current global plastic pollution crisis and how the oil and gas industry has successfully manipulated the narrative around it. From the extraction of fossil fuels and plastic disposal to the global resistance fighting back, The Story of Plastic is a life-changing, Emmy-winning film depicting one of the world’s most pressing environmental issues.
Confronting Climate Change
(2017)
Presented by the Center for Environmental Studies at Williams College
Wednesday, April 24 at 4pm
With Maxine Burkett, US Department of State, in conversation with Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker magazine and Pulitzer prize winning author
Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert hosts a searching conversation with leading environmentalists Van Jones, James Hansen, Bill McKibben, Rob Nixon, Maxine Burkett, Stephen Gardiner and Mark Tercek. (24 minutes)
Manzanar Diverted
(2022)
Thursday, April 25 at 7pm
With director Ann Kaneko in conversation with Aly Corey of the Davis Center
At the foot of the majestic snow-capped Sierras, Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp, becomes the confluence for memories of Payahuunadü, the now-parched “land of flowing water.” Intergenerational women from Native American, Japanese American and rancher communities form an unexpected alliance to defend their land and water from Los Angeles.
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