La Guerre des Graines

Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds

April 2014 •English

One of the world's most precious resources is at risk. This film will help others learn what is at stake and what can be done to protect the source of nearly all our food: SEEDS. While the price of gold and oil skyrockets the fate of our most priceless commodity is ignored. Seeds provide the basis for everything from fabric, to food to fuels. They are as essential to life as the air we breathe or water we drink... but given far less attention. Over the past one hundred years, seeds have steadily shifted from being common heritage to sovereign property. This film tells the story of seeds by following the challenges and triumphs of some of their most tireless stewards and advocates.

The Seeds of Vandana Shiva

November 2021 •English

How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest conservator become Monsanto’s worst nightmare? The Seeds of Vandana Shiva tells the remarkable life story of Gandhian eco-activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, how she stood up to the corporate Goliaths of industrial agriculture, rose to prominence in the regenerative food movement, and inspired an international crusade for change.

The Seed of Hope

January 2024 •Persian

Iranian teenagers have different judgments about Iran. A group of female students get to know a knowledge-based company during a field trip. After this scientific tour, they talk about the effects of this tour on their own thoughts.

Guardaram Por Nós

November 2020 •Portuguese

How to Grow a Planet

March 2012 •English

Geologist Ian Stewart explain in three stages of natural history the crucial interaction of our very planet's physiology and its unique wildlife. Biological evolution is largely driven bu adaptation to conditions such as climate, soil and irrigation, but biotopes were also shaped by wildlife changing earth's surface and climate significantly, even disregarding human activity.

Pineapple Express

August 2008 •English

A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.

Kudzu

June 2022 •English

A climbing, coiling, trailing vine. Inescapable growth. It smothers that which it climbs.

Blood Valley: Seed's Revenge

February 2014 •English

Coming back from her bachelor party in Las Vegas, Christine and her friends are driving through the hot desert of Nevada. But they are not alone - serial killer Max Seed is back and he brought the whole family.

The Survivalist

April 2015 •English

In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.

Seedpeople

May 1992 •English

The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.

The Purchase Price

July 1932 •English

Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.

Maturation

Invalid date •English

Self-discovery and introspection

Seed Supreme

Invalid date •English

An adventuring staff-wielding, juvenile races for the recently landed and highly coveted space seed that gives unimaginable strength and mysterious magical powers.

The Augmentation of Douglas Engelbart

April 2019 •English

A film on Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse whose vision was to augment the collective IQ of humans using the computer as a tool to accomplish this.

Outraged

December 2020 •English

Paul Pogba, Moise Kean, Dejan Lovren, Nadia Nadim, Shanice van de Sanden and Guram Kashia share their personal experiences of discrimination and how these issues are affecting people in football. Their stories are supported by football greats like Megan Rapinoe, José Mourinho, Ruud Gullit, Olivier Giroud, Tyrone Mings, Kalidou Koulibaly, and Pernille Harder.

Collateral Damages

June 2003 •English

An intimate look at the emotional and psychological impact of September 11 on New York firefighters in the year after the attack on the World Trade Center.

Creature Feature: 60 Years of the Gill-Man

October 2014 •English

This movie documents the era surrounding the creation, marketing and distribution of the influential horror film, "Creature From the Black Lagoon," and the two sequels that followed. Flash forward 60 years later, and we see how the legion of fans continue to grow for this classic horror character, and how the movie is still relevant today.

Nasrdin Dchar: Adem

January 2021 •Dutch

Moroccan-Dutch actor and stage performer Nasrdin Dchar attempts to make sense of the chaos that was the year 2020.

Egas’ Ego

December 2020 •Portuguese

Egas Moniz, a man marked by perseverance and ambition. Audacious and in dissonance with a country full of “narrow-minded” people, Egas Moniz faced everyone so as to impose his scientific ideas, for which he was awarded, at a quite advanced stage of his life, the much-desired Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949.

King of my Kind: John Badham Remembers Dracula

November 2019 •English

An interview with John Badham.