[plant speech]

When a drug to replicate plant cells creates a sentient form of flower, the planet is over taken by flora and humankind is depleted. A Chinese task force, a widowed father and his young daughter fight to survive in a mission to inject an antidote to the core of the plants to reverse their growth.

昭和49年の東京・池袋。守一が暮らす家の庭には草木が生い茂り、たくさんの虫や猫が住み着いていた。それら生き物たちは守一の描く絵のモデルであり、じっと庭の生命たちを眺めることが、30年以上にわたる守一の日課であった。そして妻の秀子との2人で暮らす家には毎日のように来客が訪れる。守一を撮影することに情熱を傾ける若い写真家、守一に看板を描いてもらいたい温泉旅館の主人、隣に暮らす佐伯さん夫婦、近所の人々、さらには得体の知れない男まで。老若男女が集う熊谷家の茶の間はその日も、いつものようににぎやかだった。＜山崎努と樹木希林という、ともに日本映画界を代表するベテランが初共演を果たし、伝説の画家・熊谷守一夫妻を演じた人間ドラマ。30年間もの間、ほとんど家の外へ出ることなく庭の生命を見つめ描き続けたという熊谷守一＝モリのエピソードをベースに、晩年のある1日を沖田修一監督がフィクションとしてユーモラスに描いていく。＞

Mark Boyle, having given up technology for a life in rural Galway, meditates upon his daily rituals; of writing by hand and the ease to which sleep finds him.

On a dystopian island, where the government has banned organic plant life, a man with an artificial flower shop grows real plants in secret, cultivating their surreal properties, trying to breathe some air into the smothering environment.

Kudzu, or Pueraria Thunbergiana, is a vine threatening to take over large portions of the Southern landscape. Imported from Japan by the Departement of Agriculture in the 30's for erosion control, its spreading growth has become a problem of menacing proportions. Kudzu is an off-beat, witty, informative documentary about the vine that is devouring the South. Featuring the Kudzu Queen, the Kudzu rock band, a cast of real-life characters and an appearance by former President Jimmy Carter, it illustrates how Southern cultural traditions have quickly grown up around a botanical pest. The eminent American poet and novelist James Dickey ("Deliverance"), recites three stanzas of his poem, "Kudzu."

Ember is a fantasy adventure about the African Fynbos and its inevitable destruction and regrowth. A Nature Sprite with a passion for life and growth discovers a Fire Sprite with a mission to burn everything and worlds collide, but destruction is inevitable.

The angel of wind exhales, sending fluffy dandelion seeds into a slow dance. Wind and light guide the downy seeds into the magical world of botany.

This experimental film follows the work of two scientists who test a new device that uses specialized circuitry to transfer data between computer networks and living plants. Neither science nor fiction, this documentary highlights the human labor of scientific procedures, attentive to the future they are producing – in which humans will disappear.

The secret world of plants gets us closer to these motionless and quiet creatures, so attractive and surprising as the rest of the living creatures. The documentary reveals the most unknown aspects of the vegetable kingdom. We learn about the secret of the eternal youth of a 3500 years old sequoia and be charmed by the 'rafflesia arnoldi' flowers, able to reach up to one meter of diameter.

Lena is nine-year-old. One day, she spontaneously makes an act of love that will change her life. She will take care of a plant. An action so simple yet unusual that nowadays only children could instinctively do. Will this revolutionary gesture change the future of our world? In a blurry society made by technological progress and innovation, can a simple action become a revolution?

When the world has been pushed past breaking point, an aging neurobotanist collects and preserves what little of value remains.

We went to the fields to find out what they had to say.