ANFFF Shorts: Shorts: The Laboratory of Coexistence: Local Knowledge, Global Crisis

Name: ANFFF Shorts: Shorts: The Laboratory of Coexistence: Local Knowledge, Global Crisis
Genre: Short, Documentary, Festival
Released: 2025-10-26
Duration: 1 h 2 min

Ecological crisis is no longer distant or abstract; it is lived and embodied across diverse geographies. This programme conceives cinema as a laboratory of coexistence, where local knowledge meets global crisis. The selected films — spanning Latin America, Europe and North America — reveal how communities confront environmental pressures from within their own social and cultural contexts. Rather than offering solutions, they open a dialogue between the human and the non-human, between progress and plunder, loss and preservation. Each film becomes a lens onto the fragile negotiations of survival, memory and ethics in the face of planetary change. Through this constellation of perspectives, Laboratory of Coexistence invites us to reconsider how we perceive nature, and to imagine new forms of living together. 1. Between Salt and Sky Dir. Felipe Rosa, Brazil, Chile, 2025, 17mins Between Salt and Sky unfolds in Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, where earth and sky blur into infinity. Ariel Flores and the Rio Grande community fight to preserve the ancient ritual of shearing wild vicuñas amid climate change and the looming lithium rush. Blending breath-taking landscapes with urgent questions of tradition, exploitation, and resilience, the film captures humanity’s fragile coexistence with nature and asks what we are willing to sacrifice in the name of progress. 2. Kali Waal Dir. Jasper Baldwin Coppes, Netherlands, 2025, 22:29mins A group of foreign researchers travels to a lake marked by ecological controversy, where they uncover strange changes affecting both its waters and the lives of human and non-human inhabitants. As they record local experiences and observe the shifting landscape, the film reveals the complex relationship between pollution and ecological protection. At the heart of their journey lies an unsettling question: can a natural reserve truly be healed with toxic mud, as industries claim, or is deeper damage unfolding? 3. Something Mutual Dir. Magaly Ugarte de Pablo, Mexico, 2025, 5mins Something Mutual is a visual essay that explores the presence of urban flora in Mexico City, giving voice to the plants that surround us. Through contemplative images and quiet reflection, it uncovers the hidden narratives of the city’s nature and reveals the delicate connections between plants and people. Both poetic and vivid, the film stands as a testimony to resilience, inviting us to rethink our silent dialogue with these green companions and imagine a more harmonious coexistence. 4. Coywolf Dir. Lucy Adams, United Status, 2025, 11:33mins In New York City, coyotes move quietly through streets and parks, creating an unexpected portrait of urban wildness. The film traces their hidden presence with lingering city images, subtle soundscapes, and camera-trap footage that reveal both biodiversity and fragility. Contrasting shots of animals, people, and fragments of urban life capture a sense of place with honesty and gentle humour. Through observation and cinematic detail, it reflects on how humans and wildlife share the same landscape in surprising ways. 5.Goodbye Pig Dir. Roberta Palmieri, Italy, 2025, 5:39mins This film follows a pig recounting his final day, blending memory and imagination into a mockumentary diary. His journey from Spain to Italy mirrors human migration, marked by loss and hope. With an optimistic voice that contrasts industrial farming’s silent violence, the film creates a poetic space where the pig becomes a symbol of forgotten humanity and resilience, inviting viewers to reflect on life, displacement, and the unseen stories of those who cannot speak. For the full program of the 2025 Animal Nature Future Film Festival and more screening details, please visit our website: <a href = "https://www.anfff.org/" style = "color: orange">Click here </a></style>Short, Documentary, FestivalPT1H2M12A2025-10-26

Felipe Rosa

Jasper Baldwin Coppes

Magaly Ugarte

Lucy Adams

Roberta Palmieri

ANFFF Shorts: Shorts: The Laboratory of Coexistence: Local Knowledge, Global Crisis"ANFFF Shorts: Shorts: The Laboratory of Coexistence: Local Knowledge, Global Crisis"

Showtimes

October 26, 6:30 pm