France Montreal Canada This documentary is observing gentrification and urban heritage in two former working class neighbourhood of Montreal, Canada. Through a variety of testimonies, the objective is first to study the urban transformations in these two neighbourhoods, more specifically the economic and cultural changes brought about by gentrification. Then, it is to evaluate the impact of these on material and immaterial memory in these two neighbourhoods. The aim of this film is to explore the relationship between gentrification and the loss of memory (material and immaterial). In other words, it studies how is memory impacted in a context of major cultural and economic transformations. Is the memory of a neighbourhood used to attract new population ? Is it put forward ? is it forgotten ?

Frieberg, Germany Barcelona Spain Barcelona is one of the most important centres of European city tourism. The city is experiencing strong tourism growth, which is associated with profound changes in the urban environment. Many residents, as well as political and civil society actors, now perceive tourism in some ways as a burden. Some are protesting against the fact that their everyday space is being appropriated and their quality of life is being eroded. A close look at selected urban districts of Barcelona shows that changes and negotiation processes connected with touristification follow different courses. This transformation is multifaceted and is embedded in complex and even contradictory contexts. This compilation was created by a group of students during field research on the topic of "The Impact of Touristification on Urban Neighbourhoods in Barcelona". The various conflicts in the neighbourhood 'El Raval' - the social and urban structure changed by touristification, conflicts between residents about silence and the housing market, as well as the role of the administration and the economy - were audiovisually investigated and portrayed.

Berlin, Germany Overflow is about the handling of urban water. It is about social construction of nature, explicitly water and health. The film follows the worldwide unique aeration ship ‘Rudolf Kloos’ as it drives through berlin pumping oxygen into the waters of the Landwehrkanal. Various water experts talk about why we need to aerate these waters while explaining the connection to berlins overflowing canalisation and human centred water terms. How we deal with water relates to what we understand as healthy bodies of water. The film shows the destructive process of urbanisation while giving hope for a healthier city through water sensibility. Why does berlin have an aereation ship? Why do we accept the canals overflowing into the Landwehrkanal? What happens to the health of the waters of the Landwehrkanal? How is it connected to the genereal health of the waters of Berlin and the health of the environment of the city? How is the treatment of urban water human centered? How can a multispecies perspective give room for new understandings of urban health?

Berlin, Germany On an abandoned lot on Osloer Straße, an artist group has proclaimed Berlin‘s first Organisms Democracy. It is a political system in which the power emanates from all citizens of the state. All living beings who inhabit or use the state territory are citizens, with equal rights and equal entitlement to political participation. This right is exercised through human representatives. The short film documentary explores how the notion of care is shaped in the Organisms Democracy‘s more-than-human relations, which problems these forms of care might entail and to what extent they create healthier urban environments for all kinds of beings.

Maryland, USA University of Seville, Spain Grasshoppers have been admired and villainized throughout history. They have experienced significant changes in our world, including those most recently induced by humankind, having to adjust and resist individually and collectively. The film navigates current challenges capitalism has posed on the environment through the lens of this millenary species in rural Maryland. Can grasshoppers show more humanity than humans? This film explores how the current relations of production and intensive use of land affect the environment through the lenses of grasshoppers, a species that has been around for over 250 million years. The filmmakers start from the idea that our world has a form. Mountains, rivers, trees, and bushes… are the result of thousands of years of evolution. They have grown, adjusted, and mutated. But landscapes would not be without human perception, which has always been conditioned to human needs. People have taken whatever they needed from nature to survive and, in the process, have created a way to understand it. Like many other species, human relationships with the environment have never been peaceful. But it has become more violent as the centuries have gone by, first through capitalism organizing spatial relations (land grabs, imperialism) and in recent times because of world population increasing at a similar pace as greed. The film focuses on this evolution, exposing the contradictions of our actions as a species.

Industrial agriculture has failed to solve hunger, decimated rural communities, and had severe ecological consequences. So why is this model being exported to Africa and promoted in international policy circles? Our film sought to investigate the role of the Gates Foundation and other philanthrocapitalist endeavors in pushing industrial and high tech forms of agriculture on farmers in Africa, and demonstrate how and why these efforts are exacerbating hunger and inequality, rather than solving them. We also wanted to highlight widespread resistance by civil society organizations and farmers, who have been developing and practicing sustainable agroecological alternatives that offer greater promise in ensuring food security and addressing climate change. Rich Appetites Film 1: The Foundation is the first short film in a 5 part series. The other titles in the series include Seeds, Money, Science, and Agroecology in Action. In the process of conducting research for the film series, we identified a number of ways that the Gates Foundation is exerting undue influence over food politics at the global and regional scales--from pushing restrictive seed laws, to shaping the priorities of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Through interviews, we also documented a number of stories about the negative impact Gates Foundation funding has had on many farmers and rural communities, and were able to use the power of storytelling to demonstrate the political and ecological possibilities of agroecology as an alternative model. Film-making allowed us to bring our ongoing research to life in a new way, and to reach new audiences by creating compelling, shareable narratives. In particular, it helped us recognize the need to incorporate real people's voices and faces into this research, to create connections and concern. At times, it was hard to arrange interviews across multiple timezones and with spotty internet connections (especially in rural areas). However, this was important to us to try to include a diversity of voices in the project, without having the budget to travel extensively. We also feel that given the climate crisis, flying to all of these places to interview people is ecologically irresponsible and unjustifiable. We are proud and pleased with how we were able to create global films that are more climate-friendly.

Portugal Spain Guadiana in Four Movements explores the present and future of the estuary of the transboundary Guadiana River (Iberian Peninsula). Crafted with found footage, images and soundscapes collected during fieldwork in the region, the piece also makes use of data sonification based on current climate models. In an attempt to grasp the overwhelming data-driven climate change scenarios, data sonification provides a more comprehensible experience of the intricate dynamics of this region in their susceptibility, dissimilarity and complexity. The Guadiana estuary presents a revealing case study on the impacts of climate change on fragile biodiversity in the Iberian Peninsula. From the 13th century, the estuary acted as an imaginary borderline between Portugal and Spain. In 1926, upon the Convention of Limits, an agreement on the official border demarcation was eventually reached. The word “limit” referred solely to the legally binding abrupt frontier in the middle of a river between two riparian states. Since then, other sorts of (planetary) limits have also been acknowledged. Despite being highly susceptible to flooding, aridity, water scarcity, drought and salinisation, Guadiana continues to be used for power generation, hyper-intensive agriculture, cattle grazing, and tourism. But how can we address via audio and film present and future scenarios?

Tacoma Washington Neighborhood explores the connections between gentrification and settler colonialism in the historically Black neighborhood of Hilltop, through a BIPOC lens. Hilltop is located in the heart of Tacoma, WA which is on the stolen ancestral lands of the Puyallup Tribe and Coast Salish territories. I created this film as a fellow in the Hilltopia Narrative Justice film fellowship which focused on trauma informed filmmaking. I filmed and edited this project myself and interviewed valued members of my community and the Tacoma community in general. The goal in the approach of making this film was to tell a story about a neighbored that I love as a resident of the neighborhood rather than an outsider.

Melbourne Australia Timor-Leste In Timor-Leste spring water is central to people’s connections to each other and the ancestral spirit world. Underground flows are the carriers of spirits and the providers of life and well-being to the living. This film follows Simião, a university student, who had been very ill and had almost died when something had attacked him and taken his spirit. With the water’s help, the family had recovered it, and his spirit had been restored to his body. Through ceremony the debt to the ancestral spirits of these healing waters is repaid and connections to more distant coastal springs are honored. As water resources diminish with increasing population and economic pressures as well as global climate change, Restoring the Spirit addresses a subject of ever increasing local and global importance. In many areas water is not only a vital resource but is also endowed with an agency and power that connects people, spirit beings, place and space. It is also understood as central to people's wellbeing and healing processes. As one outcome of over two decades of ethnographic research across the island of Timor, this film provides an intimate more-than-human account of the complex social and ecological specificities of water-focused societies spread across the one of the world’s newest nations, Timor-Leste. The film explores contemporary challenges to the ancient uses, beliefs and rituals associated with water and wellbeing and identifies the ritual ecological practices through which the use and sharing of water continues to occur and guide socio-ecological systems on the island.

Leicestershire UK Sheffield, UK Lush green pastures rich in red clover provide nourishing grazing grounds for sheep and cows on Oliver Lee’s farm. Oli jumps in his buggy with working dogs Tim, Meg and Sally to grapple with the daily manual work of rotational grazing – regularly moving livestock to allow fields to replenish without synthetic fertilisers. Immersing us in a work-life where farming meets conservation, ‘Rotational’ shares an intimate experience of agricultural labour through the coordination of human, animal, and technological realms in a living landscape. Despite the many ecological and health benefits for livestock, wildlife, and soils – is this demanding workload viable for family farms like Oli’s? This film sets out to portray the intimate experience of the labour involved in rotational grazing through the coordination of human, animal, and technological realms in a living landscape. Secondly, the way in which the new agricultural policy in England, the Environmental Land Management (ELM), takes shape at a farm level.