Climate Journalism on Screen 2026

Climate Journalism on Screen 2026

February 7–22, 2026

Following the success of last winter’s Climate Journalism on Screen series, this new installment continues the exploration of how contemporary filmmakers address the myriad issues around climate change with new subjects, environments, and documentary techniques, presented in feature, mid-length, and short film form.

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  • A hazmat-suited worker crosses a street past a peacock, with fire-scorched homes and orange smoky sky behind them.

    Ondi Timoner: All the Walls Came Down, 2025

  • Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss: Teenage Wasteland, 2025

  • Amin Muhammad, Thomas Sawano: The Glacier Wedding, 2025

  • Robin Petré: Only on Earth, 2025

  • Brennan Robideaux: Sallie’s Ashes, 2025

  • Frederick Wiseman: Meat, 1976

  • Upcoming
    Films
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    Events
  • Selected
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  • Past
    Films
  • Past
    Events

Past Films

  • Teenage Wasteland

    Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss
    United States, 2025
    Saturday, February 7 1 PM
    Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss, and Jason Spingarn-Koff in Conversation

    In 1990s upstate New York, a misfit cohort of muckraking high school students armed with camcorders exposed improper toxic waste dumping in their community. Decades later the students and their teacher revisit the twisty, scandalous story.

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  • Only on Earth

    Robin Petré
    Spain, Denmark, 2025
    Sunday, February 15 1 PM

    Only on Earth captures the rhythms of rural life in northwest Spain, as rising temperatures and human development alter the landscape, which for centuries teemed with wild horses that kept the flammable undergrowth in check.

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  • Meat

    Frederick Wiseman
    United States, 1976

    4K Digital Restoration

    Thursday, February 19 7 PM
    Ricardo San Martin and Jeff Griffith-Perham in Conversation

    Capturing a pivotal moment in the history of animal agriculture, Meat tracks the transformation of animals into consumer commodities through a revolutionary, scalable assembly-line process that dramatically increased the world’s appetite for beef.

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  • Three Films on Water and Tradition

    Saturday, February 21 1 PM
    Amin Muhammad, Thomas Sawano, and Jennifer Redfearn in Conversation

    This cross-continental program presents stories from Pakistan, Croatia, and Bolivia, where struggles over access to clean water intersect with reflections on cultural traditions and legacy.

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  • All the Walls Came Down

    Ondi Timoner
    United States, 2025
    Sunday, February 22 1 PM
    Ondi Timoner, Brennan Robideaux, and Jason Spingarn-Koff in Conversation

    All the Walls Came Down chronicles the devastating aftermath of the Eaton Fire on the community of Altadena, California, from the personal perspective of someone who lost their home, filmmaker Ondi Timoner. Paired with Sallie’s Ashes, which follows a trio of retired Alabama seniors turned community organizers, fighting to protect Mobile Bay from an industrial behemoth’s toxic coal ash dump.

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