For the fifth screening of our 2023 season, the Portland EcoFilm Festival is all fired up to present three new films on the theme of rebellion:
THE SPRAYER, TOTAL DISASTER, and FINITE.
THE SPRAYER
9 minutes | Islamic Republic of Iran
Director: Farnoosh Abedi
This visionary animated short from Iran tells the story of a contaminated land occupied by the Sprayers army, where no one is permitted to grow any kind of plant, either in public or private. To do so is considered a seditious act punishable by death. But when a soldier finds a plant sprouting from the earth, his humanity sparks something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary.
TOTAL DISASTER
11 minutes USA
Directors: Keil Orion Troisi, Molly Gore
Armed with realistic bird puppets, trickster environmental activists pretend to be oil company Total—staging a satirical press conference to introduce "RéHabitat," a program to rescue animals from the East African Oil Pipeline by relocating them to “more sustainable” habitats. Armed with humor and mischief, they expose a deadly ecological disaster in a zany yet urgent effort to help #StopEACOP. Co-directed by longtime Yes Men member, Keli Orion Troisi.
FINITE: THE CLIMATE OF CHANGE
99 minutes | United Kingdom
Director: Rich Felgate
In Germany, concerned citizens step forward to save an ancient forest from one of Europe’s biggest coal mines. They form an alliance with people in rural England who are forced into action to protect their community from a new opencast coal mine. Director Rich Felgate spent nearly two years living in protest camps with the communities featured in this emotional story about battles between frontline communities and corporations.
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