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Daniel Balima is a senior horticulturist from Tenkodogo, a small Sub-Saharan African town in Burkina Faso, where he lives with his large family and has worked since he was born 67 years ago. Daniel as a child falls ill with polio and, although growing without the use of his legs, he is able to follow his father in the family nursery, walking on his hands. In over fifty years of activity he has given life to more than a million trees and this is what is most important for Daniel because, as he tells us, his country, because of the drought, needs many trees and does not stop, on the contrary.... he dreams of planting another million.

1 17-minute compilation of 16 days sailing aboard the Anahi catamaran throughout the Galapagos archipelago. Creative videography combines with an evocative original music score capture the essence of these incredible islands.

A biological film of the smooth newt, its history from egg, through tadpole stage, to fully developed three-year-old next returning to the pond in spring to breed.

The Mediterranean Sea is still a popular holiday destination for many people from Europe. Based on the first verse of a hit song from the 1950s, the film questions the idealized image of the Mediterranean as a place of longing. Can we still look naively and impartially at the Mediterranean today? What eludes perception and whose perspectives on the Mediterranean are (not) taken up in the collective perception.

A joyride of emotions through Leilen vision, when she try to seek the forest in her eyes, surrounded by mother nature deep inside a far away location in the Mayan jungle. In her dreams appears a contemporary dancer that reflects the strong free female energy that this world needs.

Iceland is one of the wildest places on earth. You could be caught up in the midst of snowstorms and blizzards, but you are never alone... Although tourists from all over the world have started a silent invasion, nature keeps on winning.

A very lively woman with a very deadly cancer visits a national park with the intention of ending her life there-- but her suicide plans are continually thwarted, not least of all by her family, which finds itself unamused with her death wish.

Gordon explains with iconic example species what characteristics render animals cute in human perception, while studies proved evolution developed them to adapt to environments before man even was around. Pandas excel in physiognomy resembling the human baby, clumsily playing young, instrument use and other primate behavior resemble our children but they often learn even faster. Furs and feathers render cuddly. 'Tame' felines domesticated man, even developed an irresistible second purring tone at baby-pitch.

Who is behind the new environmental wave of interest in planting forests in Afrika, making you buy rain-forest and climatic quotas for pollution? It surely wouldn't be the same which made the last financial crises in sub prime loans?

At the end of the summer, a moose finds herself alone in the forest. She has just lost her calf, probably to a bear. Now she must find a mate. Once pregnant again, she will endure months of bone-chilling winter until she delivers in the spring. She will fiercely protect her new calf from predators and teach him everything he needs to know to survive. And then suddenly one day, around his first birthday, she will sever their deep bond and push him toward independence just before she gives birth again. This is the story of a mother's journey: an inspirational tale of the struggle to survive and the wonder of life, set against a backdrop of stunning Canadian natural wilderness beauty.