GECO SHORTS SESSION
Availability: Worldwide
Screening from 2-11 September 2022
CHANGING PARADIGMS
Director: Henry Smith
Documentary | 23m 13s | 15m 35s | 2021
Australia | Language: English
GECO22 Official Selection
Changing paradigms explore the potential issues with conventional or mechanical farming methods in regards to both ecological and financial sustainability. It also looks at the issues that are apparent with modern foods, while offering an insight into old methods that are being used today that regenerate the landscape’s ecology while sustaining a resource for future generation farmers and consumers.
THE WEEDY ONE
Directors: Morgan Way + Sam Doyon
Documentary | 9m 1s | 2021
Australia | Language: English
GECO22 Official Selection
The story of Diego Bonetto, a wild food forager who tells the tale of his struggles and finding his own path in a world he doesn't quite fit in.
THE LAND OF WOMEN
Director: Oriane Descout
Documentary | 11m 58s | 2022
Brazil | Language: Portuguese | English Subtitles
GECO22 Official Selection | Australian Premiere
In Brazil, there are peasant women who struggle daily to feed their families and preserve rural culture. The women all want their daughters to carry on the life on the farm, but each family faces its own challenges.
THE SPIRIT OF THE GANGA
Director: Natashja Rathore
Documentary | 16m 35s | 2021
India | Language: English, Hindi | English Subtitles
GECO22 Official Selection | Australian Premiere
The Spirit of the Ganga highlights the journey of an 18-year-old environmental activist, Sumair Handa Bakshi, and his youth-led organisation that has been working for the last 5 years to save the critically endangered aquatic species that reside in the Ganges.
WHEN THE SWALLOWS FLY AWAY
Director: Sébastien Pins
Documentary | 3m 48s | 2021
Belgium | Language: French | English Subtitles
GECO22 Official Selection | Australian Premiere
In a small rural village, a young boy befriends Fernand and Andrée, a farmer couple who, at 80 years old, find themselves in trouble feeding their remaining livestock.
BIG BASIN WILL NEVER BE THE SAME
Director: Eric Benjamin Parson
Documentary | 16m 55s | 2021
USA | Language: No Dialogue
GECO22 Official Selection | Australian Premiere
In 2020, the CZU Lightning Complex Fire radically transformed the landscape of California's oldest State Park, Big Basin, located in the Santa Cruz mountains. This footage dramatically documents the pre and post-fire landscape in mesmerising, and at times painfully vivid, detail.
EGG
Director: Li-Wei Hsu
Animation | 6m 21s | 2021
Taiwan | No dialogue
GECO22 Official Selection | World Premiere
On a plastic-formed island in the great Pacific Ocean, a lonely man found an egg.
