FILMS Worth Checking Out while engaged in Personal Reflection over December-January

 Here are six recent and new releases you might look out for, on the big screen or on dvd or to purchase online, all of which look to be good viewing during this MIRP personal reflection time. The movie websites are worth exploring for a synopsis of the movie and for additional resources.

Racing Extinction

- a call to action amidst massive species loss. The film exposes the two worlds that are driving global species extinction—the international wildlife trade and the fossil fuel industry.

[Trailer  (02:39)]; [Website]; [How to see it: Screenings; Purchasing information]

Salt of the Earth

A journey with Sebastião Salgado, a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.

[Trailer (01:48)] ; [Website]; [How to see it: Out now on DVD and on iTunes]

How to change the World

chronicles the adventures of an eclectic group of young pioneers – Canadian hippie journalists, photographers, musicians, scientists, and American draft dodgers – who set out to stop Richard Nixon’s atomic bomb tests in Amchitka, Alaska, and end up creating the worldwide green movement.

[Trailer (02:04)]; [Website]; [How to see it: Screenings; Buy & Book]

Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything

Seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.

[Trailer (02:22)]; [Website]; [How to see it] Inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller

Human

A film with three voices (those of the people, the testimony of the planet, the lyricism of the music). real-life stories from  2,020 women and men in 60 countries and 63 languages (from Mercy eNews Issue #649).

What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight ? That we laugh? Cry? Our curiosity? The quest for discovery?..

[Trailer (02:31)]; [Website]; [How to see it: Watch on YouTube]

How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can't Change

Filmed in 12 countries on 6 continents, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst consequences and asks, what is it that climate change can’t destroy? What is so deep within us that no calamity can take it away? Directed by Josh Fox (Gasland)

[Trailer (01:27)]; [Website]; [How to see it: Screenings]

Trailer: (HOW TO LET GO OF THE WORLD AND LOVE) ALL THE THINGS CLIMATE CAN'T CHANGE from JFOX on Vimeo.

Published in Mercy eNews 16 December, 2015