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Lions of the Skeleton Coast

Director Will and Lianne Steenkamp

2024

The Nile Dam: A Dangerous Power Game

Director Sara Creta

Nenets vs Gas

Director Sergio Ghizzardi

Biocentrics

Director Fernanda Heinz Figueiredo & Ataliba Benaim

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Vertical Money

Director Martti Helde

2024

Rowdy Girl

Director Jason Goldman

Finalist

Grasshopper Republic

Director Daniel McCabe

2024

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Flowing Freely - In the River of Life

Director Uwe Müller

2024

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Bearland

Director Henry M. Mix

This Is Our Everything

Director Frederik Subei

Defenseless Mountain

Director Mostafa Gandomkar

Dog Eater

Director Fathollah Amiri, Nima Asgari

Gladiators - Wild Coast

Director Will Benson

Secrets of the Enchanted Forests - Mountains

Director Andrew Zikking

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A Cheetah's Pride - EP2: Struggle to Survive

Director Hansa Winshaw

2024

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The Storm - Wildlife in Wild Weather

Director Michael R. Gärtner, Robin Jähne

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Magnifica: Passive Intruder

Director Ville Koskinen

2024

Raptors - A fistful of Daggers - EP2: Extreme Lives

Director Matt Hamilton

Water Lost and Returned

Director Radek Plihal

2024

Winter Harvest

Director Amélie Dussault

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My Sweden - A Changing Wilderness

Director Zoltán Török

2024

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Apple Cider Vinegar

Director Sofie Benoot

2024

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Welcome to the Forest - Mind the Gap

Director Jan Haft

2024

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Welcome to the Forest - The Puzzle of Life

Director Jan Haft

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Oh Deer!

Director Frank Pizon

A Life Among Elephants

Director Nigel Pope

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Wild Port of Europe - Nature on the Edge

Director Willem Berents

Axe

Director Volodymyr Bakum

The Island of the Giant Mothers

Director Carlos Pérez Romero

Piblokto

Director Anastasia Shubina, Timofey Glinin

At The Water´s Edge

Director Mirjam Matiisen

2024

Savage Beauty - The World's greatest Light Installation

Director Janne Tanskanen

The World According to My Dad

Director Marta Kovářová

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Operation Saimaa Seal

Director Petteri Saario

Stick Together

Director Felix Maria Bühler

Of Children and Trees

Director Natalie Pfister

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Vietnam´s Mysterious North

Director Heike Grebe, Johannes Berger, Michael Riegler, Stephan Krasser

2024

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The Crane Dance

Director Maxence Lamoureux

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Namibia's Natural Wonders - Little Heroes, big Hunters

Director Jens Westphalen / Thoralf Grospitz

2024

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Parents in the Wild - Mating Games and Birth Days

Director Annette Scheurich & Moritz Mayerle

Guardians of The Houm Tree

Director Mohsen Bakhtyar

Rhino Man

Director John Jurko II, Matt Lindenberg, Daniel Roberts

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A Call from the Wild

Director Asgeir Helgestad

2024

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Unwavering

Director Chris Schmid

The Researcher

Director Paolo Casalis

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La Macchina Fissa - Clark's Garden

Director Emilio Neri Tremolada

2024

The Forest Maker

Director Volker Schlöndorff

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A Butterfly´s Tale

Director Jan Haft

Chasing the Rains (Ep 1 - The Fickle River)

Director Nigel Pope

The Slumber of Soomaa

Director Jevgeni Zavadski

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A White Dream

Director Mathieu Le Lay

2023

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Elusive Landscapes

Director Sulev Keedus

Planet Killers: The Prince of Carbon

Director Martin Boudot

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Cactus Hotel

Director Yann Sochaczewski

2023

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The Raven's Tale

Director Michael Schlamberger

2023

Natura Europa - The Return of the Aurochs

Director Michael Schlamberger

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The secret Life of Seals

Director Johan Candert

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Return of the White-tailed Eagle

Director Jouni Hiltunen

2023

Chasing Walrus (With A Stubborn Photographer)

Director Simon Stanford

Drops Give Life

Director Farshi Azari

The Memory of Life

Director Juhani Haukka

Tending the Garden

Director Claire Weissbluth & Jesse Dodd

What is wilderness?

Director Jan Haft

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Mongolia, Valley of the Bears

Director Hamid Sardar

2023

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China's Wild Empire - Tibetan Antelope: The Mysterious Migration

Director Pascal Cardeilhac

Wild Oman: Wonder of Arabia

Director Stefania Müller

Tangled In The Tides

Director Barend van der Watt

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A Hard Nut To Crack

Director Barend Van der Watt

Feathers or Glamour

Director Eva Kübar

American Ocelot

Director Ben Masters

Wild Argentina - Land of Survivors

Director Christian Baumeister

Wild Argentina - Land of Water

Director Christian Baumeister

Where do frogs come from?

Director Hannes Rohtma

2023

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The Illusion of Abundance

Director Erika Gonzalez Ramirez & Matthieu Lietaert

2023

Cucurrucu - The Pigeon Rescuers

Director Lâm, Nguyễn Tiến

Sleepless Birds

Director Tom Claudon, Dana Melaver

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The Wild West - A Prairie Dog's Life

Director Philippe Moreau

My Wild Cats - European Cats

Director Bertrand Loyer

In the Garden

Director Natacha Boutkevitch

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New Pigs on the Block

Director Jimmy Kets

2023

The Powerful Owl

Director David Luff

Beasts of the Big Blue (Ep 1 - Tini Heke)

Director Judith Curran

Bucolic

Director Karol Pałka

The Dark Side of Bright Nights

Director Tim Visser, Sander van Iersel

Jeseníky - A Mountain Wilderness Kingdom

Director Marián Polák

Gentle Mountain - The Foothills Of The Alps

Director Patrick Centurioni

The Battle For The Birds, In The Skies Of Israel

Director Cédric Chambin

Poland's Wild East

Director Jens Westphalen & Thoralf Grospitz

Finalist

Geamăna

Director Matthäus Wörle

Return of the Vultures

Director Emmanuel Rondeau

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A Rhino's Life

Director Rosie Koch and Roland Gockel

2023

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Return of the Little Tern Seabird on the Floating Artificial Sand Islands

Director Dong-Man SHIN, Sang-Seop YEOM

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Nature's Magic Moments

Director Christian Baumeister

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Out There: A National Parks Story

Director Brendan Hall

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Wolf

Director Cees van Kempen

2023

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Woodpeckers: The Hole Story

Director Ann Johnson Prum

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Legacy of a Legend

Director Juha Metso

Water Celery

Director Yu So-young

Nest

Director Miguel Angel Baratta

Sounds of the South

Director Hubert Neufeld

Critical Kingdoms - Stories of Hope - Ep 2: Indonesia

Director Max Serio, Radek Houska

The Song of a Little Owl

Director Mehdi Nourmohammadi

Quest for Silence

Director Julien Guéraud

The Price of seeing a Show

Director Mehdi Ghazanfari

Young Guns

Director Andreas Thaulow

Shepherds of the Earth

Director Iiris Härmä

2022

Reaching the Birds

Director David Krøyer

Extremadura. A Natural Paradise in Europe

Director Carlos Pérez Romero

Amuka - The Awakening

Director Antonio Spanò

Preserve

Director Hadis Janbozorgi

Colonies in Conflict

Director Rajani Mani

Eyes of the Orangutan

Director Chris Scarffe, Will Foster-Grundy

12th Hour

Director Susan Kucera

Hog Haven

Director Christopher Beeson

Osprey: Sea Raptor

Director Jacob Steinberg

Secrets in the Scat

Director Ruth Berry

Ijswee

Director Okki Poortvliet

Kingdom of Fish Ep 3 - The Sea

Director Björn Tjärnberg

2022

Kingdom of Fish Ep 2 - The Lake

Director Björn Tjärnberg

2022

Kingdom of Fish Ep 1 - The River

Director Björn Tjärnberg

2022

Goodbye to All Cats

Director Susan Bloom, Caleigh Waldman

FoodForest

Director Louis De Jaeger

Ode to Nature

Director Jan Haft

Journey of the Pelicans - an Australian Outback Mystery

Director Annette Scheurich

Cher and the loneliest Elephant

Director Jonathan Finnigan

Twitchers

Director Baptiste Magontier

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Beyond The White

Director Evgeny Kalachikhin

Bright Green Lies

Director Julia Barnes

Mata

Director Ingrid Fadnes & Fabio Nascimento

Africa, GMOs and The Gates Foundation

Director Jean-Baptiste Renaud

Food Fraud: An Organised Crime

Director Bénédicte Delfaut

USA: Climate Wars

Director Ibar Aibar & Fanny Chauvin

Atomic Hope - Inside The Pro-Nuclear Movement

Director Frankie Fenton

Return Sasyk to the Sea

Director Andrea Odezynska

Uprooted: The Olympic Tribe

Director Balint Revesz

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Black and White Big Cats

Director Mathieu Le Lay

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Born in the Rockies Ep 1: First Steps

Director Joseph Pontecorvo

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Hippo King

Director Will & Lianne Steenkamp

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Pantanal - Brazil's Natural Miracle

Director Christoph and Almut Hauschild

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Chickens, Virus and Us

Director Filip Remunda

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Neighbourhood of Infinity

Director Mark Aitken

2022

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Waves Beneath The Water

Director Arthur de Bruin

2022

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Houbara

Director Fathollah Amiri, Nima Asgari

2022

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Lagunaria

Director Giovanni Pellegrini

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Life of a Mutt

Director Tanja Brzaković

2022

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The Door was Open

Director Olivier Marin

2022

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Mamody, the last Baobab Digger

Director Cyrille Cornu

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About the Forest

Director Peter Magnusson

2022

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Bee Wild!

Director Jan Haft

2022

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The Great Swamp

Director Remek Meel

2022

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Pleistocene Park

Director Luke Griswold-Tergis

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Lumi and Leenu

Director Mirjam Matiisen

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The Elephant & the Termite

Director Mark Deeble, Victoria Stone

2022

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Wolverine - One Tough Mother

Director Alexander Sletten

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Raccoons, survival Warriors

Director Emma Baus

2022

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Superbirds - The Secret Life Of Tits

Director Yann Sochaczewski, Marlen Hundertmark

2022

Duty of Care - The Climate Trials

Director Nic Balthazar

2022

Confluence

Director Eva Otsing

On thin Ice

Director Henry M. Mix

Of Mosquitoes and Men

Director Madis Ligema

The Whale from Lorino

Director Maciej Cuske

Hempman vs. the State

Director Sampsa Huttunen

Green Warriors: Cursed Uranium

Director Martin Boudot

Snow Leopards and Friends

Director Xi Zhinong, Zi Ding, Da Jie, Qu Peng

Nature’s Networks

Director Susanne Lummer, Andreas Ribarits

Rare Survivors - China's Iconic Wildlife

The Alps EP 1: The High Life

Director Otmar Penker

America´s Arctic - A Refuge Imperiled

Director Martin Mészáros

Corona - The Pandemic and the Pangolin

Dehesa - Forest of the Iberian Lynx EP 2

Director Joaquín Gutierrez Acha

Dehesa - Forest of the Iberian Lynx EP 1

Director Joaquín Gutierrez Acha

Cows on the Roof

Director Aldo Gugolz

The Wind. A Documentary Thriller

Director Michał Bielawski

Buromsky Island

Director Olga Stefanova

Monkeys and more. Our closest Relatives

Director Oriol Cervera Subirats, Juan Luis Santos, Juan Antonio Rodríguez Llano

Echoes of the Ice Age

Director Jan Haft

Remedy

Director Jakub Šipoš

Looking for Bears

Director Mahdi Chalani

TripleF***

Director Simona Theoharova

2021

What the Trees whisper about

Director Rita Takács

Bleeding Ice: Antarctica, The Final Chapter

Director Willem van den Heever

Darwin in Times Square - The Science of Urban Evolution

Director Martin Gronemeyer, Michaela Kirst

Stolen Fish

Director Gosia Juszczak

Lost - Birds of the Countryside

Director Heiko De Groot

A Hundred Year Journey

Director Antti Tuomas Seppänen

The Magical Four - Our Seasons

Director Annette Scheurich, Alexandra Sailer, Steffen Sailer, Klaus Scheurich

Entangled

Director David Abel

Accidental Wilderness - Europe's Everglades

Director Christian Baumeister, Max Meis

Return to the lost Eden

Director Adriano Zecca

Dunes of Nõva

Director Aare Baumer

Salto is the King

Director Pavol Barabas

The Frozen Kingdom of the Snow Leopard

Director Frédéric Larrey

Fast Fashion: The Real Price of Low-Cost Fashion

Director Gilles Bovon, Edouard Perrin

Green Warriors: Soil Threat

Director Martin Boudot

They Came to Stay - Our Alien Animal Neighbors: Rheas

Director Herbert Ostwald

After the Fires

Director Cian O'Clery

They Came to Stay - Our Alien Animal Neighbors: Coypus

Director Herbert Ostwald

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The Shamans´ Nightmare

Director Natalie Halla

2021

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Pumas - Legends of the Ice Mountains EP 2: Rebirth

Director Dereck Joubert, Beverly Joubert

2021

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Pumas - Legends of the Ice Mountains EP 1: Birth

Director Dereck Joubert, Beverly Joubert

2021

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Feast of the Killer Whales

Director Alexis Barbier-Bouvet, Didier Noirot

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The Otter, a Legend returns

Director Hilco Jansma

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Wolves at the Borders

Director Martin Páv

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Animals

Director Jonas Spriestersbach

2021

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Rebirth

Director Chia-Lung Chan

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Earth: Muted

Director Mikael Kristersson, Åsa Ekman, Oscar Hedin

2021

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Worlds of Water. 3 Episodes

Director Petteri Saario

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A young Crane´s long Journey

Director Jouni Hiltunen

2021

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Overland

Director Elisabeth Haviland James, Revere La Noue

2021

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Leopard Legacy

Director Will Steenkamp, Lianne Steenkamp

2021

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When the Snow melts down

Director Aleksei Golovkov

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Under Control

Director Ville Koskinen

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Wild Horses - A Tale from the Puszta

Director Zoltan Török

2021

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My Dragon River

Director Dagmar Hilfert-Rüppell, Georg Rüppell

2021

Hotter than Climate Change

Director Adrien Bordone, Bastien Bösiger

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What a colorful World

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Nature´s Nurseries

Director Jan Haft

2021

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Santa´s wild Home

Director Matt Hamilton

Wombstone / Special Screening

Director Kersti Uibo

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Backwoodsman

Director Maaja Hallik

Banquet of the Beasts – The Cycle of Life

Director Daniela Pulverer, Boris Raim

Finalist

Bear-Like

Director Roman Droux

Gan Fód

Director Dermot O'Hanlon

Finalist

The Beauty of Being

Director Jaan Tootsen

2020

America's Wild Seasons: Spring

Director Jeff Morales

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Lions & Hyenas: Owners of Death, Guardians of Life

Director Nacho Ruiz

Aether

Director Ruken Tekeş

Green Blood

Director Arthur Bouvart, Jules Giraudat & Alexis Marant

Days of Summer

Director Annette Scheurich, Alexandra & Steffen Sailer

Finalist

A Song for Love - An Ape with an App / Opening Film

Director Mark Fletcher

Under Cover - Every Body needs a Coat

Director Ivo Filatsch

Seasons in the Wild - Episode 2: Autumn

Director Martin Mészáros

Seasons in the Wild - Episode 1: Spring

Director Martin Mészáros

Taiwan Grass Owls

Director Shou-i Yang, Chun-ming Wan

A City without Water

Director Dorothe Dörholt & Antje Christ

Elementa

Director Richard Sidey

Acid Forest

Director Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė

Food For Change

Director Benoît Bringer

The People vs. Agent Orange

Director Kate Taverna & Alan Adelson

Seeds of Profit

Director Linda Bendali

Wild Portugal

Director Christian Baumeister

Finalist

Picture of His Life

Director Yonatan Nir, Dani Menkin

Wild Innsbruck - Between Culture and Alpine Nature

Director Patrick Centurioni

Me & My Tuk-tuk - Searching for the Elephants of Paradise

Director Stefan Quinth

Island of the Hippos

Director Carlos Pérez Romero

One Word

Director Viviana Uriona

To Raise and Rise

Director Oliver Dickinson

Oso, Wild vision from Asturias

Director Vincent Munier, Laurent Joffrion

Ever Slow Green - Re-afforestation in Auroville

Director Christoph Pohl

Finalist

Mt. Suswa - Life in a Volcano

Director Oliver Goetzl

2020

Wild Cats Of India: Masters of Disguise

Director Sandesh Kadur

Heartwood

Director Stefano Petroni

Wild Forests, Wild Crags - In Search of the Phantom

Director Szabolcs Mosonyi

A Fistful of Rubbish

Director David Regos

Wild Shetland: Scotland’s Viking Frontier

Director Jackie Savery

Lamalera

Director Karsten Tadie

83° Ski The North

Director Matthias Mayr

Finalist

Animus Animalis. A Story About People, Animals and Things

Director Aistė Žegulytė

2020

Fatei And The Sea

Director Alina Rudnitskaya, Sergey Vinokurov

The Highlands

Director Andrea Zambelli, Andrea Zanoli

Finalist

Animal Image

Director Perttu Saksa

Finalist

Going Nuts - Tales from the Squirrel World

Director Yann Sochaczewski

2020

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Frozen Islands

Director Stefania Muller

252 Days of Solitude

Director Kaidor Kahar

Finalist

Land of the Far North - Polar Day

Director Steffen and Alexandra Sailer

Finalist

Land of the Far North - Polar Night

Director Steffen and Alexandra Sailer

Finalist

Cantábria – Spain’s magical Mountains

Director Joaquin Gutierrez Acha

2020

I Am Lion

Director Jürgen Jozefowicz

Generation Greta

Director Simon Kessler & Johan Boulanger

2020

Wild Nights - When Animals Awake

Director Uwe Müller

Finalist

Okavango: River of Dreams

Director Dereck & Beverly Joubert

2020

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Sockeye Salmon. Red fish

Director Dmitriy Shpilenok

Finalist

The Season, when Velvet Antlers get Ripe

Director Galina Leontieva

2020

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Northern Wind can be Warm

Director Aleksei Golovkov

2020

Menorca Biosphere Reserve

Director Jordi Escandell & Toni Escandell

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The Meadow - Paradise Lost

Director Jan Haft

2020

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Nomads

Director Emiliano Ruprah

2020

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The Story of Plastic

Director Deia Schlosberg

2020

Salt

Director Vladimir Eysner

The Last Autumn

Director Yrsa Roca Fannberg

Lihula Kultuurimaja · Lääneranna Noortekeskus · Lihula Raamatukogu

Films screened at the Festival

Entry 24-625

Bulunkul

Entry 24-263

The Kukang Movie: A Story about Slow Lorises and People

Entry 24-821

Dams - Damage to Estonian Rivers

Entry 24-820

Restoration of Mires - From Theory to Practice

Entry 24-46

Documerica, Self-portrait of a Nation on the Brink

Entry 24-129

The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery

Finalist

Entry 24-793

Lions of the Skeleton Coast

Entry 24-271

The Nile Dam: A Dangerous Power Game

Entry 24-461

Nenets vs Gas

Entry 24-297

Biocentrics

Finalist

Entry 24-819

Vertical Money

Entry 24-298

Rowdy Girl

Finalist

Entry 24-249

Grasshopper Republic

Finalist

Entry 24-423

Flowing Freely - In the River of Life

Finalist

Entry 24-173

Bearland

Entry 24-214

This Is Our Everything

Entry 24-242

Defenseless Mountain

Entry 24-244

Dog Eater

Gladiators - Wild Coast

Entry 24-633

Secrets of the Enchanted Forests - Mountains

Finalist

Entry 24-205

A Cheetah's Pride - EP2: Struggle to Survive

Finalist

Entry 24-200

The Storm - Wildlife in Wild Weather

Finalist

Entry 24-604

Magnifica: Passive Intruder

Entry 24-202

Raptors - A fistful of Daggers - EP2: Extreme Lives

Entry 24-115

Water Lost and Returned

Entry 24-254

Winter Harvest

Finalist

Entry 24-353

My Sweden - A Changing Wilderness

Finalist

Entry 24-672

Apple Cider Vinegar

Finalist

Entry 24-584

Welcome to the Forest - Mind the Gap

Finalist

Entry 24-583

Welcome to the Forest - The Puzzle of Life

Finalist

Entry 24-761

Oh Deer!

Entry 24-776

A Life Among Elephants

Finalist

Entry 24-55

Wild Port of Europe - Nature on the Edge