From a motley crew of back-to-the-landers to the exciting new futures of sustainable agriculture.

This special screening was part of our film-lover's guide to taking environmental action in the first 100 days of the new White House administration. 

From the directors of Winged Migration and Oceans, experience nature first-hand and see the impact of humans through the eyes of the animals.

SF Premiere of Death By Design and expert discussion on the environmental impacts of our digital addiction. part of the Bay Area Science Festival. 

Chronicling the fight between indigenous communities and government-supported business interests in the Peruvian Amazon.

We know that good things can come in small packages. Throughout the Festival we showcase an array of new, International short films.

Here's the A-Z of shorts screened at the 2016 Green Film Fest.

Seven grassroots activists from around the world head to Paris for the UN Climate Talks.

This wildlife epic first roared onto the big screen 50 years ago as the first mainstream Hollywood film to spotlight a big conservation issue.

Political documentarian Zhao Liang draws inspiration from The Divine Comedy for this simultaneously intoxicating and terrifying glimpse at the ravages wrought upon Inner Mongolia by its coal and iron industries. 

The parallel stories of two women: Margaret Mead, who popularized cultural anthropology in America; and Susie Crate, an environmental anthropologist currently studying the impact of climate change. 

The story of Ken Balcomb, a former U.S. Navy officer who solved a tragic mystery involving a mass stranding of whales in the Bahamas, and changed the way we understand our impact on the ocean.

Luc Jacquet (March of the Penguins; Once Upon A Forest, SFGFF 2014) returns to the Antarctic.

Oil is our greatest long-term national security threat.

Nine African Americans set out to change the face of the outdoors by taking on America's highest peak: Denali.

To us it may be a radioactive "Exclusion Zone" to them it's their ancestral homeland. 

Each year, many hundreds of environmental activists put their life on the line to protect wild places. 

At the San Francisco Green Film Festival, we highly value sharing crucial environmental stories like these that have the power to educate, inform, and ignite change. We also pair solutions-oriented film themes with local non-profits to engage audiences with local action opportunities. Join our #morethanmovies movement! 

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Mark Ruffalo produces and narrates this direct appeal to the President to join the "anti-fracking" majority.

Mexico City faces a continual battle for access to water: getting it, rationing it, transporting it, and consuming it with the utmost judgment and care. 

Fishermen are the stewards of some of the last wild food on our planet: fish.

Spotlight California is a web series that follows comedian and filmmaker Kiran Deol as she travels across the state investigating the California we don't see on postcards.