Born in Damascus
Laura Wadha | 2021
Scotland, United Kingdom | 15 min | 12+ years | Arabic with English subtitles | Closed Captions

Syrian-Scottish filmmaker Laura Wadha reconnects with her cousin after 10 years apart. Through video calls, old recordings, and ongoing processes of memory and reconciliation, they piece together the story of their family separated by war.

The Fourfold
Alisi Telengut | 2020
Canada | 12 min | 8+ years | Mongolian with English subtitles | Closed Captions

Screened as part of TOAFF21

Against the backdrop of the climate emergency, this gorgeous exploration of indigenous worldview and wisdom draws on ancient animistic beliefs and shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia.

The Last Ice
Scott Ressler | 2019
United States | 83 min | 8+ years | English, Greenlandic, Inuktitut with English subtitles | Closed CaptionsSubtitles

Screened as part of TOAFF20

Visually stunning portrait of two Inuit youth grappling with their future as their communities face the challenges of (neo)colonialism and climate change.

Conception
Samaré Gozal | 2020
Canada, Norway | 19 min | 12+ years | English, French with English subtitles

An insight into anti-abortion campaigners.

ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch
J.Baichwal, N. de Pencier, E. Burtynsky | 2018
Canada | 87 min | 12+ years | English, Cantonese, Chinese (Mandarin)... with English subtitles | Subtitles

Screened as part of TOAFF19

In their follow-up to Manufactured Landscapes and Watermark (TOAFF14), photographer Edward Burtynsky and his artistic collaborators Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de pencier offer a cinematic meditation on the way human activity has reshaped the Earth.