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How do people shape a landscape and how does a landscape shape us? What actions do we undertake and what is the end result? What will happen if we carry on like this, and what cracks are already starting to appear on the surface - between man and nature, ecology and the economy, climate frustration and climate action, progress and disillusionment. Ranging from feature film to documentary and science fiction to family drama, the films in the EcoEast section ask how sustainably we want to live, or whether we really prefer to turn a blind eye to what is happening around us?

Bartka

Bartka

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Volodymyr Bakum
Ukraine / 2022 / 92 min
In order to slow down the climate catastrophe, the forest ecosystem is of great importance. Director Volodymyr Bakum takes a precise look at forestry in the Ukrainian Carpathians and questions the point of cutting down the forests.
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Bottlemen

Bottlemen

Bottlemen
Nemanja Vojinović
UK/RS / 2023 / 83 min
The huge Vinča landfill outside Belgrade, presumably a cradle of civilisation in ancient times, is now the workplace of plastic bottle collectors. Nemanja Vojinović's intense documentary, peppered with dystopian images, observes the daily work of ...
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Voice of the Glacier

Voice of the Glacier

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Yadykar Ibraimov
Kazakhstan / 2022 / 80 min
It is well known that glaciers are melting due to the climate crisis, but how exactly does this happen? Impressively photographed, harrowing eco-thriller about the melting Tujuksu glacier in Kazakhstan - and the work of the scientists who document ...
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Geamăna

Geamăna

Geamăna
Matthäus Wörle
Germany / 2021 / 31 min
Before Valeria Praţa's eyes, her Romanian home village of Geamăna is sinking into the toxic sludge of a copper mine. She is one of the last inhabitants - and is in mourning.
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The Well

The Well

The Well
Rufat Ray
AZ / 2022 / 15 min
In enchantingly beautiful shots, alternating between colour and black and white, Rufat Ray's debut tells of a dowser in search of water - and life itself.
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This is our House

This is our House

This is our House
Diogo Pereira/ Lamia Šabić/ Luciano Perez Savoy
BA / 2022 / 45 min
Atmospheric-contemplative shots reflect melancholy: in the open-cast lignite mining area of Kakanj near Sarajevo, residents bid farewell to their destroyed homeland.
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