Ecocinema - II

The second selection of the Ecocinema program explores humanity’s ancient and fragile relationship with nature through three films that adopt water as a shared language. Lithuanian filmmaker Miglė Križinauskaitė’s poetic essay Does the Sea Have a Heart? investigates an existential connection with the sea using only traces in the sand and echoes—without a single human figure. Canadian filmmaker Ella Morton’s 29-minute documentary An Uncertain Eternity follows the journey of melting glaciers from Greenland’s Ilulissat Icefjord to the shores of Newfoundland, conveying their shifting political, social, and spiritual meanings through the voices of both Greenlanders and Newfoundlanders. French filmmaker La Fille Renne’s short experimental documentary Chasing Whales traces a route from Norway to the Faroe Islands, Orkney, and the Hebrides, examining past and present relationships with whales through the ruins of former whaling stations, addressing hunting practices and the damage inflicted on marine ecosystems with deep melancholy. Together, these films create a shared mourning for the planet’s increasingly narrowing future.