Stirring The Love Of Trees
CEE Animation’s newly appointed Sustainability Manager, Valentína Hučková, recommends these films to stir our love of trees and inspire action in these turbulent times of climate change.
Titles in collection
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Patrick in Town’ is a character-driven absurd comedy melodrama series set in the near-future ecological utopia (ecotopia) centred around Patrick, who was a pioneering vegan even before the whole planet had to go vegan in order to avert mass extinction, and his wife who is a Cow. The series explores their cohabitation & the surrounding characters – human and non-human animals, as we reveal what a vegan future can look like for planet Earth and its population.
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Welcome to the world of PLSTC, an undersea dystopia that submerges you in the disturbing reality of plastic pollution in our oceans. Through a series of graphically confronting AI-generated and hand-composited images of ocean creatures, this experimental animated film confronts you with the devastating consequences of our habits on marine life, and leaves you gasping for breath.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The story of a shepherd’s single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.
- Drama
- Fantasy
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Through audio recordings taken in the field and poetic moving images, the film portrays activists who use food as a tool in their anti-consumerist struggle.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Forest 500 is the world’s first ratings agency for rainforests. It tracks how key companies, investors and governments are performing in the race to remove deforestation from global supply chains. ‘Forest 500’ was produced for the COP 21 Climate Conference in Paris, 2015. It is the third film Moth has made for the Global Canopy Programme, a tropical forest think tank working to demonstrate the scientific, political and business case for safeguarding tropical forests as natural capital.
- Documentary
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A short film by PES that reimagines vintage metallic objects as fantastical deep-sea creatures.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The plains are populated with beds. Growing Plains is a sensory snapshot of an uncanny landscape where humans have an alternative biology. There is a system, refined over generations, an exchange between human and bird. The relationship between birds and humans are crucial for both of their survival.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL•E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek robot named EVE.
- Adventure
- Sci-Fi
- Family
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While protecting his village from a rampaging boar-god, the young warrior Ashitaka becomes afflicted with a deadly curse. To find the cure that will save his life, he journeys deep into sacred depths of the Great Forest Spirit’s realm where he meets San (Princess Mononoke), a girl raised by wolves. It’s not long before Ashitaka is caught in the middle of a battle between iron-ore prospecting humans and the forest dwellers. He must summon the spirit-powers and all his courage to stop man and nature from destroying each other.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Adventure
- Action