Penn State Sustainability thanks the more than 1,000 of you who joined us for our 2024-25 public programming exploring the theme of Mind Over Matter: how personal and social resilience can come through reconnection to our values, places, communities, and non-human nature.
Until we return with new programming in 2025-26, we encourage you to scroll below through our complete list of films we have screened since our film program began in spring 2019. Click on any slide to learn more about the film:
100 Years
Melinda Janko (2016, U.S., 76 min.)
Screened March 10, 2021
9to5: The Story of a Movement
Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar (2020, U.S., 89 min.)
Screened April 6, 2021
ABC da Greve
Leon Hirszman (1990, Brazil, 85 min.)
Screened September 21, 2022
Agnes 50: Life After the Flood
Alexander Monelli (2022, U.S., 57 min.)
Screened September 7, 2022
An American Ascent
George Potter and Andrew Adkins (2014, U.S., 66 min.)
Screened November 18, 2020
An American Factory
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert (2019, U.S., 115 min.)
Screened March 3, 2020
Ascend
Kathryn Francis and Campbell Brewer (2023, U.S., 19 min.)
Screened March 5, 2025
Beans
Tracey Deer (2020, Canada, 92 min.)
Screened November 1, 2021
Between Earth & Sky
Andrew Nadkarni (2023, U.S., 26 min.)
Screened April 2, 2025
Beyond the Mirage
Cody Sheehy (2016, U.S., 56 min.)
Screened October 12, 2022
Beyond Zero
Nathan Havey (2020, U.S., 82 min.)
Screened November 1, 2023
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Chiwetel Ejiofor (2019, U.K./ Malawi, 113 min.)
Screened October 16, 2019
Cart
Boo Ji-Young (2014, South Korea, 110 min.)
Screened November 10, 2020
Church Forests of Ethiopia
Jeremy Seifert (2020, U.S., 9 min.)
Screened April 19, 2023
Chasing Water
Pete McBride (2011, U.S., 19 min.)
Screened October 12, 2022
Collards in the Cafeteria
The Lee Brothers (2018, U.S., 6 min.)
Screened May 21, 2019
Cooked
Judith Helfand (2018, U.S., 76 min.)
Screened February 12, 2020
Das Rad
Heidi Wittlinger, Chris Stenner, and Arvid Uibel (2003, Germany, 8 min.)
Screened October 21, 2020
Dear Mandela
Dara Kell, Christopher Nizza (2012, South Africa, 90 min.)
Screened October 18, 2023
Dignity at a Monumental Scale
Kelly Whalen (2018, U.S., 8 min.)
Screened October 21, 2020
El Empleo
Patricio Plaza & Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso
(2008, Argentina, 6 min.)
Screened January 17, 2024
Elegy for the Arctic
Ludovico Einaudi (2016, Spain, 3 min.)
Screened October 21, 2020
The Empowerment Project
Sarah Moshman and Dana Michelle Cook (2014, U.S., 98 min.)
Screened March 1, 2023
Facing the Mountain
Vaibhav Kaul & Ross Harrison (2016, India, 21 min.)
Screened February 23, 2022
Fantastic Fungi
Louie Schwartzberg (2018, U.S., 79 min.)
Screened September 17, 2019
Farmsteaders
Shaena Mallett (2018, U.S., 59 min.)
Screened September 16, 2020
Fire Through Dry Grass
Alexis Neophytides and Andres “Jay” Molina (2023, U.S., 90 min.)
Screened February 12, 2025
Flood Bound
Marion Abrams (2012, U.S., 57 min.)
Screened November 15, 2023
Food Chains
Sanjay Rawal (2014, U.S., 83 min.)
Screened November 16, 2022
For Flint
Brian Schulz (2017, U.S., 18 min.)
Screened May 21, 2019
Gather
Sanjay Rawal (2020, U.S., 74 min.)
Screened November 13, 2024
The Grapes of Wrath
John Ford (1940, U.S., 129 min.)
Screened September 6, 2023
H2O: The Molecule That Made Us -- Civilizations
Alex Tate (2018, U.S., 55 min.)
Screened October 20, 2021
H2O: The Molecule That Made Us -- Crisis
Nicholas Brown (2018, U.S., 55 min.)
Screened November 17, 2021
H2O: The Molecule That Made Us -- Pulse
Nicholas Brown (2018, U.S., 54 min.)
Screened September 29, 2021
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Daniel Goldhaber (2023, U.S., 99 min.)
Screened March 20, 2024
I Am a Man: Memphis Sanitation Strike
AFSCME (2008, United States, 10 min.)
Screened January 17, 2024
Ice Cream Cake
Pearl Gluck (2019, U.S., 3 min.)
Screened October 21, 2020
The Infiltrators
Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra (2019, U.S., 95 min.)
Screened October 9, 2020
An Injury to One
Travis Wilkerson (2003, U.S., 53 min.)
Screened January 22, 2025
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
Joe Piscatella (2017, U.S., 79 min.)
Screened September 11, 2024
Kiss the Ground
Rebecca Harrell Tickell and Josh Tickell (2020, U.S., 84 min.)
Screened September 15, 2021
Land and Water Revisited
Kirk French (2020, U.S., 57 min.)
Screened October 13, 2021
Last of My Kind
Nicolas Brown (2021, U.K., 9 min.)
Screened April 19, 2023
Last of the Nightingales
Masha Karpoukhina (2022, U.S., 32 min.)
Screened April 2, 2025
The Love Bugs
Allison Otto and Maria Clinton (2018, U.S., 32 min.)
Screened April 19, 2023
Magali
Nick Werber (2021, U.S., 5 min.)
Screened April 19, 2023
My Name Is Pauli Murray
Betsy West and Julie Cohen (2021, U.S., 91 min.)
Screened February 1, 2023
Newtok
Michael Kirby Smith, Andrew Burton, and Marie Meade (2022, U.S., 97 min.)
Screened October 16, 2024
A Once and Future Peace
Eric Daniel Metzgar (2021, U.S., 95 min.)
Screened January 19, 2022
The Organizer
Mario Monicelli (1963, Italy, 130 min.)
Screened February 19, 2019
Papiroflexia
Joaquin Baldwin (2007, U.S., 2 min.)
Screened May 21, 2019
Plastic China
Jiu-Liang Wang (2016, China, 37 min.)
Screened January 17, 2024
Pride
Matthew Warchus (2014, U.K., 119 min.)
Screened April 23, 2019
Quiet No More
Eléonore Hamelin (2020, U.S., 27 min.)
Screened January 18, 2023
Resistance Climbing
Zachary Barr and Nick Rosen (2023, U.S., 38 min.)
Screened March 5, 2025
A River Reborn
Ben Kalina (2021, U.S., 28 min.)
Screened March 22, 2023
Salvage
Amy C. Elliot (2019, Canada, 57 min.)
Screened November 13, 2019
Saving Juliette
Evey Wilson Wetherbee & Grant Blankenship (2022, U.S., 39 min.)
Screened February 7, 2024
Say His Name: Five Days for George Floyd
Cy Dodson (2021, U.S., 27 min.)
Screened January 18, 2023
The Second Mother
Anna Muylaert (2015, Brazil, 114 min.)
Screened March 19, 2019
Silence Sam
Courtney Staton and Jeremiah Rhodes (2018, U.S. 30 min.)
Screened January 18, 2023
Sleep Dealer
Alex Rivera (2008, U.S. 90 min.)
Screened December 3, 2019
Small Island Big Song
Tim Cole (2019, Australia/Taiwan, 83 min.)
Screened April 20, 2022
Sorry to Bother You
Boots Riley (2018, U.S., 111 min.)
Screened January 22, 2019
Sorry We Missed You
Ken Loach (2019, U.K., 101 min.)
Screened April 12, 2022
Sweet Crude Man Camp
Isaac Gale (2013, U.S., 11 min.)
Screened May 21, 2019
That Which Once Was
Kimi Takesue (2011, U.S., 20 min.)
Screened May 21, 2019
Three Seconds
Spencer Sharp and Richard Williams (2016, U.S., 4 min.)
Screened May 21, 2019
Three Walls
Zaheed Mawani (2011, Canada, 26 min.)
Screened October 21, 2020
Tidewater
Roger Sorkin (2017, U.S., 27 min.)
Screened February 23, 2022
Tubelight
Vinamra Pancharia (2018, India, 5 min.)
Screened May 21, 2019
Unravel
Meghna Gupta (2012, India/U.K., 14 min.)
Screened May 21, 2019
Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago
Lydia B. Smith (2013, U.S., 84 min.)
Screened December 4, 2019
Waste Land
Lucy Walker (2010, Brazil, U.K., 99 min.)
Screened October 27, 2021
Wastewater: A Tale of Two Cities
Sarah Franke (2021, U.S. 22 min.)
Screened February 7, 2024
Water Blues, Green Solutions
Frank Christopher (2014, U.S., 59 min.)
Screened February 17, 2021
The Water Front
Liz Miller (2007, U.S., 53 min.)
Screened March 22, 2021
We Feed People
Ron Howard (2022, U.S., 89 min.)
Screened November 2, 2022
Where I End and You Begin
Will Hoffman and Julius Metoyer III (2019, U.S., 9 min.)
Screened October 21, 2020
A Will for the Woods
Amy Browne, Jeremy Kaplan, Tony Hale, and Brian Wilson (2014, U.S., 93 min.)
Screened January 22, 2020
Woman at War
Benedikt Erlingsson (2019, Iceland, 101 min.)
Screened March 23, 2022
The World of Tomorrow
Don Hertzfeldt (2015, U.S., 17 min.)
Screened May 21, 2019
The Yes Men Are Revolting
Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonnano, and Laura Nix (2014, U.S., 91 min.)
Screened October 26, 2022
Youth Unstoppable
Slater Jewell-Kemker (2018, U.S., 91 min.)
Screened April 21, 2021
Intersections. A sustainable world is one of intersections both between the overlapping global Sustainable Development Goals, like gender equity and climate change, and also between fields that approach these issues from different directions, from engineering to sociology to visual arts. Our programming aims to explore these intersections and promote engagement, community,and action at the crossroads of sustainability challenges.
All events in our programming are always free and open to the public. We look forward to building a sustainable community at Penn State with you!