Runtime: 63 min

In the gorgeous setting of central Brazil, a rag tag group of 10000 mayan calendar followers, bioregionalists, permaculture experts, Rastafarians, alternative health practitioners, and NGO executives work towards a do-it-yourself action plan to make the world a better place in 13 days and prepare for 2012.

Runtime: 56 min

What prompts this film is recognition of our deep dependence on the natural world and the significant threat to that world posed by war and preparations for war. The scale of environmental damage over the last half century is unprecedented. Falling water tables, shrinking forest cover, declining species diversity - all presage ecosystems in distress.

Runtime: 55 min

Be the Change explores the motivations for, and the challenges and rewards of, trying to live more lightly. This is a "100-kilometre" film made entirely in the Ottawa region, using sustainable practices whenever possible.

Runtime: 26 min

Unlimited: Renewable Energy in the 21st Century is a 26 minute documentary about renewable energy and other alternatives to fossil fuels. It features a group of passionate children calling for adults to take action and address global warming.

Runtime: 89 min

EVERYTHING'S COOL is a film about America finally "getting" global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action.

Runtime: 74 min

Meat the Truth draws attention by demonstrating that livestock farming generates more greenhouse gas emissions worldwide than all cars, lorries, trains, boats and planes added together.

Runtime: 87 min

Calling itself "the world's first global-warming comedy," cheeky low-budgeter "Beyond the Pole" brings a breath of satirical fresh air to a topic that's rapidly approaching media suffocation. Mockumentary about two fumbling Brit amateurs who want to save the planet by walking to the North Pole plays like a cross between "The Office" and a "Touching the Void" parody set in the Arctic.

Runtime: 79 min

'Garbage Dreams' is a 2009 feature length documentary film produced and directed by Mai Iskander. It follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, on the outskirts of Cairo.

Runtime: 42 min

This film explores the impacts of global warming on coastal cities. As the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland melt, sea levels rise. This poses significant challenges and requires action on the part of coastal cities like Jakarta, Rotterdam, New York and Alexandria.

Runtime: 52 min

Wereldmediatheek travelled in Burkina Faso and Togo, Ecuador and Bangladesh, to gauge the effect climate change is having there. They spoke to both local people as well as experts about the ever-increasing danger of poverty in the regions.

Runtime: 50min

Follows Miranda Bailey, an indie film producer, to the realization that making movies has a tendency to be extremely wasteful and damaging on our environment.

Runtime: 93 min

450 years ago, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon was forced to leave a small chest of gold and jewels buried in a Florida swamp. On his death bed, he left a crude map to the treasure...

Running time: 20 min

Brucellosis is a very dangerous disease that affects sheep, goats and other animals. It, also, gets transferred to people and it is very hard to treat. About 500,000 people get affected every year, worldwide.

Runtime: 45 min

Snowy Mountains rise high above the untouched jungle of New Guinea, breaking through heavy rain clouds. A limestone pyramid, known as the Carstensz Pyramid, soars above them as the most exotic, but also the most inaccessible mountain in the world. The peak of this mountain was conquered for the first time, by Heinrich Harrer, in 1962.

Runtime: 4 min 22 s

Three friends meet in a bar and start talking about cars, holidays, energy and diet. Business as usual until the waitress serves the bill...