EcoFilm Fest
Alice's Festival of EcoFilm includes mainly documentaries and some features with environmentalist and ecologolgical themes. Generally bringing attention to, and encouraging conservation issues, and issues related with the natural, the human and the built environment of our fragile Blue Planet.
We Are Traffic! (1999) / Return of the Scorcher (1992)
Director: Ted White
This wonderful compendium of the films of Ted White, presents both the successes and failures of the Critical Mass bicycle phenomenon, chronicling the... Read more
A River Runs Through It (1992)
7.3/10
Director: Robert Redford
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Emily Lloyd, Craig Sheffer, Brenda Blethyn, Brad Pitt
Robert Redford's elegiac coming-of-age story is based on the memoir by Norman MacLean. Brad Pitt is the young man who finds peace and comradeship in f... Read more
Baraka (1992)
8.6/10
Director: Ron Fricke
'Baraka' is an ancient Sufi word meaning a blessing, or the breath or essence of life, from which the evolutionary process unfolds. This gorgeous and... Read more
FernGully... The Last Rainforest (1992)
6.5/10
Director: Bill Kroyer
Starring: Tim Curry, Samantha Mathis, Robin Williams
A wonderful, environmentally conscious animated feature about a human boy who is joined by a group of fairies on an adventure through the Amazon rain... Read more
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Akira Terao, Mieko Harada, Mitsuko Baisho
Eight mesmerising tableaus explore the subconscious at various stages of an elderly mans life in this visually stunning work from the master Japanese... Read more
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (Blu-ray) (1990)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Akira Terao, Mieko Harada, Mitsuko Baisho
Eight mesmerising tableaus explore the subconscious at various stages of an elderly mans life in this visually stunning work from the master Japanese... Read more
Powaqqatsi ( Blu-ray ) (1988)
7.3/10
Director: Godfrey Reggio
"Life in Transformation". As a follow up to "Koyaanisqatsi", this visual montage shows how the Third World societies have been exploited. Beautifully... Read more
Gorillas In The Mist (1988)
7/10
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris
Based on the true story of anthropologist Dian Fossey (Sigourney Weaver), who travels to the African mountains to study gorillas. In this paradise, wh... Read more
Powaqqatsi (1988)
7.3/10
Director: Godfrey Reggio
"Life in Transformation". As a follow up to "Koyaanisqatsi", this visual montage shows how the Third World societies have been exploited. Beautifully... Read more
The Toxic Avenger (1985)
6.2/10
Director: Michael Herz, Samuel Weil
Starring: Mitchell Cohen, Marisa Tomei, Andree Maranda
Stupid, sick and outrageous spoof of monster movies, super heroes and 98-pound weaklings. Troma at its best! Look for future Academy Award Winner Mari... Read more