Critical Mass (2013)

The year 2050 the planet has become overpopulated, to help control population the government develops a race. The Death Race. Annually competitors race across the country scoring points for killing people with their vehicles.

近未来。人口の増加と飢饉によって深刻な食糧難となり、世界の国々は厳格な一人っ子政策を行っていた。そんな状況下で、セットマン家の七つ子姉妹は、祖父によって各曜日の名前を付けられ、それぞれ週に1日ずつ外出し、共通の人格を演じることで当局の監視の目を逃れてきた。ある日マンデーが帰宅しなかったことから、姉妹の日常は狂い始める。

2022年、今から約50年後のニューヨークには人口が膨大したことによって食糧難が起こっていた。人々は1週間に1度、政府が配給する「ソイレント・グリーン」と呼ばれるウェーフェース状の食料で命を継いでいたが・・・。

敵対していたドラゴンと人間は、臆病者のバイキングの少年ヒックと傷を負ったドラゴンのトゥースの奮闘により共に生きる道を選ぶ。彼らはバーク島で平和に過ごしていたが、ドラゴンが増え過ぎて島がパンク状態になる。今は亡き父の後継者となり、若きリーダーに育ったヒックは島を出てドラゴンたちと新しい世界を探すことを決意する。

7 years on from the original Fortress movie, Brennick and his family are still on the run. Finally, they give in, and surrender, only to find themselves imprisoned in a new, more sophisticated fortress prison in outer space. But Brennick's not a man to give in easily, and with a 10 year old son waiting for him back on earth, he's going to pack some serious assault on the evil corporation.

Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate.

Humanity’s ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, “A Short History Of Progress” inspired “Surviving Progress”, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by “progress traps”—alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. As pressure on the world’s resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations, can our globally-entwined civilization escape a final, catastrophic progress trap? With potent images and illuminating insights from thinkers who have probed our genes, our brains, and our social behaviour, this requiem to progress-as-usual also poses a challenge: to prove that making apes smarter isn’t an evolutionary dead-end.

半世紀ほど前、タンザニアのヴィクトリア湖に何者かが外来魚ナイルパーチを放流する。その後、この肉食の巨大魚は増え続け、湖畔にはこの魚を加工して海外に輸出する一大魚産業が誕生する。セルゲイら旧ソ連からやって来るパイロットは、一度に55トンもの魚を飛行機で運び、彼らを相手にエリザたち町の女性は売春で金を稼ぐ。＜数百種の固有種のすみかで、“ダーウィンの箱庭”と呼ばれていたヴィクトリア湖に放たれた外来魚が巻き起こす悪夢を追ったドキュメンタリー。カメラはナイルパーチ景気に湧く魚輸出業者と、新しい経済が生み出した貧困の光と影を映し出す。そして、魚を運ぶためにアフリカにやってくる飛行機が積んでいるものの正体が、徐々に明らかになっていく。世界規模で行われている搾取の実態が描き出されている衝撃作だ。＞

Revolution is a new movie from internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Rob Stewart. A follow-up to his award-winning documentary Sharkwater, this continues his remarkable journey of discovery to find out that what he thought was a shark problem is actually a people problem. As Stewart's battle to save sharks escalates, he uncovers grave dangers threatening not just sharks, but humanity. In an effort to uncover the truth and find the secret to saving our own species, Stewart embarks on a life-threatening adventure through 15 countries, over four years in the making. In the past four years the backdrop of ocean issues has changed completely. Saving sharks will be a pointless endeavor if we are losing everything else in the ocean, not just sharks. Burning fossil fuels is releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere; changing the oceans, changing atmospheric chemistry and altering our climate.

In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules.

In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator to help them escape to Canada.

Sacred Land, Sacred Water, a multimedia documentary, is the story of science and citizens working together to resist the oil and gas lobby’s efforts to pass a fracking-friendly ordinance in Sandoval County, New Mexico - threatening the sole drinking water aquifer for the population of the greater Albuquerque area.

On April 27th, at 2pm, National Geographic is using a version of the Environmental Performance Index to take a "pulse" of how countries are performing in regards to their environmental stewardship of the planet. Please forward this video to those you love, our planet Earth needs you. We don't have a moment to waste. Let's love and protect our Mother Planet now

A filmmaker's investigation reveals that the use of pesticides around the world may have farther reaching consequences than he had ever imagined. The only hope he sees for a brighter future lies with the incredible people he encounters along the way.

"Losing The West" is a documentary film that promotes small ranching and farming, as told through the eyes of a 70-year-old Native American cowboy. The film was shot primarily in Colorado. The director was born in Denver and owns a small ranch near Ridgway, Colorado.

A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her hometown of Calgary in this critique of the bacteria-like spread of suburbia and exurbia. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day.