Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013
Tickets £5
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Ecology, adventure, landscapes, cultures and communities. Join us on a journey from the ground at your feet to the top of the world.
Films
Promised Land (15)
Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013: Corporate salesman, Steve Butler, and his partner, Sue Thomason, are sent to close a key rural town in their company’s expansion plans. With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders expect the local citizens to accept their company’s offer, for drilling rights to their properties, as much\-needed relief.read more
Even the Rain (15)
Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013: Spanish director, Sebastián, brings his crew to Bolivia to make a film about Columbus' exploration and exploitation of the New World. He wants his film to depict the obsession with gold, the taking of slaves, and the terrible violence visited on those Indians who fought back. read more
Baraka (PG) / Samsara (12A)
Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013: Named after a Sufi word that translates roughly as "breath of life" or "blessing," Baraka is Ron Fricke's cinematic "guided meditation" (the director's own description). Fricke shows us the world, with an emphasis not on "where," but on "what's there."read more
Ubusuna plus Q&A [E]
Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013: The ancient Japanese term ubusuna refers to a place and the gods that protect it. Once it was believed that ubusuna protected the people of a place, from a time before they were born until long after they had died.read more
Village at the End of the World (cert TBC)
Exploring Our World 2013: Niaqornat is a remote Inuit village in North West Greenland with a tiny population of 59. Meet the characters: Lars, the only teenager, trying to work out what and where his future will be; Karl, the hunter, who fears that his traditional way of life will end with the next generation; Ilannguaq, the outsider, who moved to Niaqornat after meeting his girlfriend online; and Annie, the female elder, who recalls the ways of The Shaman, and remembers when the community relied on seal blubber for light.read more
Galapagos plus more from the Dartington Film Archive
Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013: Filmed in the early 1930s by the Dartington Hall Film Unit, this is the first known footage shot on the Galapagos Islands.read more
A Bug’s Life [U] plus Dartmoor Zoo Show
Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013: Every season, the grasshoppers come to the anthill to eat the food that the ants have gathered for them. The “offering” is a seemingly inescapable fate for the ants. When bumbling worker ant, Flik, accidentally destroys the latest offering, the angry grasshoppers threaten to kill the ants if they don’t produce a new supply of food by the time they return - an impossible feat!read more
March of the Penguins [U]
Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013: Every winter, the Emperor penguins of Antarctica travel through the most punishing environment on Earth to their breeding ground where they pair off into monogamous couples and mate.read more
Anda Union + Short Film DART
Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013: A ten strong group of young musicians, make a 10,000km journey through the grasslands of Inner Mongolia revealing the secret of the roots of their haunting and beautiful music.read more
The Conquest of Everest (U)
Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013: The early part of the film chronicles unsuccessful attempts on Everest, and includes rare footage from the 1922 expedition shot by climber and photographer John Noel. It was Noel's photographs and films (Epic of Everest, 1922) that sustained Everest fever in the 1920s. read more
F*ck for Forest [18]
Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013: A film about one of the world's most bizarre charities, Berlin's F*ck for Forest.read more
The Mountains of Glass (Cert. TBC)
Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013: A unique, archive, long-cut version of the colour film shot by John Earle in 1963 for BBC TV of an expedition led by Eric Shipton, the veteran mountaineer and explorer, of Everest fame, to the unexplored Darwin Range of Tierra del Fuego. read more
Chasing Ice (12A)
Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013: Acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. In this hauntingly beautiful documentary, filmmaker Jeff Orlowski follows the indomitable photographer as he carries out the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), a massive photography project that placed 30 cameras across three continents to gather visual evidence of the Earth's melting ice.read more
Born Free (U)
Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013: Born Free is the heart-warming true story of a British couple who teach their pet lioness how to survive in the wilds of Africa. Joy Adamson and her husband, George, a Kenya game warden, raise Elsa, an orphaned lion cub.read more
Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D (U)
Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013: In 1994, hundreds of cave paintings, dating back 32,000 years, were discovered in a cave in Southern France. The artists used techniques not often seen in other cave art, making the Chauvet cave one of the world’s most significant prehistoric art sites. read more
Avatar (12)
Exploring Our World Film Festival 2013: paraplegic marine, Jake Sully, is dispatched to the distant planet of Pandora on a mission for the scientific branch of a megacorporation seeking to mine Pandora’s rich woodland for a valued ore. read more