The filmmaker follows a girl, Roosi, for 10 years from age 8-18. She grew up as the child of an activist and struggles to cope with climate grief and guilt. Roosi is torn between becoming an activist herself and finding her own life path through creativity and enjoying the teenage ecstasy. Who will save the planet if not the last generation?

When she was 8, her family moved to an eco-village. Her mother Liina was the frontwoman of the commune. Roosi hated her childhood there. Now, eight years later, Roosi is stepping into the footprints of her mom. Her intelligence and vocalness expressing raw truths for the whole Generation Z are rare for her age.

The arch of the film is her tense relationship with both her parents and her attempt to find her place in this world. Taking us through the bottleneck of adolescence, the film will be full of humour, irony, and comic situations between adolescents and parents. We see the archetypal conflict in a mother-and-daughter relationship. This is a movie for young audiences as it is a POV of the generation – but also a mirror for processing parenthood.

This project is part of DOK Preview International.

Bedsores is an experimental documentary essay film shot in Sicily on 16mm colour film at the height of the pandemic.

Cruise ships reflect a certain faded glamour in stark contrast to how reviled they are in polite society. I'm drawn to them by precisely this tension, between desire and shame, the past we long for and the future we can’t imagine. There was a time when power plants and refineries would be shown on postcards. Now they are ugly, and ideally out of sight. At the beginning of the pandemic, the idea came up that the old system of exploitative economics would end, that through the lockdowns we would see that a different future is possible, if not inevitable.

Augusta is a port on the coast of Sicily, in close proximity to Northern Africa. Oil and gas arrive here from across the Mediterranean and are refined for the European market. It is also a large naval base. During the pandemic, when the travel industry was on pause, many cruise ships were parked here. They kept being moved around. To keep them from developing bedsores, I mused. This is also a border, policed by Frontex. Once a place of movement and exchange, the Mediterranean has become a place where materials are brought in and people kept out, while other people ship themselves about for pleasure.

Brigitte’s Planet B is a feature documentary about the life and work of iconic transgender ecologist Brigitte Baptiste, whose groundbreaking research and alternative discourse have challenged scientific and social conventions for years, eroding prejudice, building bridges, and inspiring change. The film weaves an intimate soliloquy, in which Brigitte finds subtle connections between transgender species, climate change, family values, Indigenous queer communities and rock paintings, all winding up with a personal and transformative Ayahuasca experience, which shakes her ideas around Queer Ecology and reminds her of the importance of paying one’s dues and embracing change as the only constant.

Through observational footage, rare archival material and digital animation, the film builds a complex and intimate portrait of an extraordinary character, whose brilliant and refreshing arguments about life, family and current affairs may rekindle our hope for our planet’s future.

The buildings in the Brunaupark district of Zurich are about to be demolished. Their owner, the Crédit Suisse pension company, plans to knock down more than 200 still functional apartments, some of which have been renovated, in order to build a new complex. The suspected reason: greed and property speculation.

Filmmakers Felix Hergert and Dominik Zietlow, aware of the phenomenon of speculation and the maximisation of profits under the guise of “urban development”, have chosen to focus instead on the jewel that is in danger of being lost forever – the community of residents. In this long-term project, the filmmakers meet the people who inject life into this neighbourhood and remain determined to fight to preserve this fully functional housing but also to resist what the outcome of this demolition will imply: the impossibility of finding a new affordable home in the context of a housing crisis. A joyful chronicle of a resilient neighbourhood awaiting its destiny.