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All Films A-Z Archive

The slides below show our more than 75 films we have shown since the beginning of Intersections in 2019. Clicking on a slide takes you to individual event pages, where you can learn more about what the films are about, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) they connect to, and the speakers we brought to discuss them. You can also find links to film trailers, websites, and social media.

We invite you to explore: we guarantee you’ll find moving and thought-provoking stories, no matter which film you choose!

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