GeoCinema 

Polar Kinships is a journey between two nomadic sea peoples from the opposite ends of the planet: the Iivi of East Greenland and the Kawésqar of Southern Chile. An ocean voyage in the Arctic brings together those who share an ancient connection with the sea, the wind, and the ice. Aboard the sailing vessel Byr, their worlds meet through gestures, songs and silences that reveal a shared strength: the resilience of those who continue to exist, to remember and to care for their lands and waters. This is a story about belonging, about continuity. This is a story that celebrates the voices of two indigenous cultures that despite distance and difference recognize themselves in the ripples of the same ocean. A film by Isley Reust, Annukka Pekkarinen & Francisco Gonzalez, narration by Hannah O´Sullivan. The voyage was funded by Global Greengrants Fund, with support from Snowchange Cooperative, Napaja.org, Pueblo Kawésqar, Traditional Sailors of Helsinki, Isley Reust Studio

The film "Across the Caspian Shallows: The Call of the Seals" tells the story of years of research on the Caspian seal conducted by scientists from Kazakhstan. Since 2015, they have been uncovering the secrets of this remarkable animal by studying its diet, behavior, age, population, distribution, and migration. Viewers will see how researchers search for seal rookeries across the vast expanses of the Caspian Sea, conduct aerial surveys, and analyze collected data. The film not only shows unique footage of seal life but also highlights the dedication, enthusiasm, and commitment of the scientists to their work. "Across the Caspian Shalows: The Call of the Seals" is a story of people who are passionate about their work and of a rare species that needs our protection.

Herència (Inheritance) is a documentary born as the final project for the Master's in Scientific, Medical and Environmental Communication at UPF-BSM, with the aim of bringing the discussion on climate change to the Valencian territory. The starting point is the DANA of October 2024, which laid bare the territory's vulnerability and the urgent need to build a culture of risk. The documentary combines interviews with young people, researchers from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and an environmental expert from the Albufera de València. Their voices weave a narrative that unites scientific knowledge and the memory of the land, showing that climate change is not a distant threat but a present reality that is already transforming our environment.

This movie relates the activities (fieldwork+lab work) of an interdisciplinary team studying the impact of rapid and short climate changes on past societies and ecosystems in Belgium during the last 10 000 years. Archaeologists, Palynologyst, geologists and speleologists gather informations on Belgian cave deposits (speleothems), peat bogs (Hautes Fagnes reserve), and human remains (archaological sites) around the Belgian Meuse basin. The team try to understand how climate change affected the environment and populations in pre-complex and early-complex societies in the Meuse basin of Belgium. This will help to gain new knowledge on human resilience and address on-going and future regional climate changes.

Earth’s magnetic field is in a state of constant flux with local variations in field strength and shifting magnetic poles standard elements of what we deem a stable magnetic field. However, during the history of our planet, the magnetic field has undergone some massive changes with full pole reversals, where magnetic north and south switch places, and so-called excursions, where the poles move towards a full reversal, but do follow through. In both cases, dramatic changes occur in which the magnetic field strength are weakened and field lines entangled. In two short animations, we present the latest excursion (the Laschamp event 42K years ago) and the latest reversal (the Bruhnes-Matuyama event 780K years ago). Visualizations were done by Max Schanner (GFZ) and sonifications by Klaus Nielsen (DTU Space & Maple Pools).