UK Green Film Festival

The UK Green Film Festival 2013, sponsored by Friends of the Earth, returns for a third year ready to inform, entertain, challenge and inspire a UK wide audience of cinema-goers. The only environmental film festival in the UK, this year the UKGFF is reaching its ‘green’ arms further with more than 50 screenings across 15 cities nationwide, including 10 London screenings, galas and awards in partnership with Picturehouse Cinemas. The screening programme foregrounds local and global environmental issues and offers 7 feature-length films (3 UK premieres); 5 of them documentaries and 2 stunning blends of drama and non-fiction. All features are coupled with a unique short offering its own alternative vision.

Screenings:

Saturday 1 June, 7pm, Hackney Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival Opening Gala:
More Than Honey UK Premiere ft. skype Q&A with director Markus Imhoof
The opening on the only green film festival in the UK premiere’s Academy-award nominee Markus Imhoof’s dazzling in depth look at the world bee crisis.

Sunday 2 June 12pm, Clapham Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival: Solar Taxi - UK Premiere
A green road movie - full of surprises! Dir. Erik Shmitt.

Monday 3 June, 6.30pm, Greenwich Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival: Peak + short
Set in ski resorts - but not as we know them - Peak causes us to relive a supposedly well-known world that has become a fascinating hybrid between nature and technology. Dir. Hennes Lang

Wednesday 5 June, 6.30pm, Greenwich Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival: Valley of Saints ft. Q&A
Valley of Saints weaves together documentary and fiction, ancient myths and contemporary issues and the beauty and danger of Kashmir to tell a story finding ones path home in a changing world. Dir. Musa Syeed

Thursday 6 June, 6.30pm, Hackney Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival: Future My Love + short
Maja Borg takes us on a poetic trip through the financial collapse, exploring a radically different economic and social model as proposed by 95-year-old futurist Jacque Fresco.

Thursday 6 June, 9pm, Clapham Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival: Big Boys Gone Bananas!* + short
Eye-opening documentary examining the right to freedom of speech, telling the story of can happen when filmmakers go up against a large corporations like Dole.
Dir. Fredrik Gertten.

Friday 7 June, 6.30pm, Greenwich Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival: More Than Honey + short
Academy-award nominee Markus Imhoof’s dazzling in depth look at the world bee crisis.

Sunday 8 June, 6pm, Clapham Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival: Peak + short
Set in ski resorts - but not as we know them - Peak causes us to relive a supposedly well-known world that has become a fascinating hybrid between nature and technology. Dir. Hennes Lang

Saturday 8 June, 7pm, Hackney Picturehouse
UK Green Film Festival Closing Gala:
Trashed ft. Q&A with director Candida Brady & Jeremy Irons
The closing night of this vital festival will feature a special screening of waste doc Trashed.