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Cambridge Film Festival · 2023

Cambridge Film Festival 2023

Environment & Community

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5 films · 1 review

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Evil Does Not Exist

Review preview for Evil Does Not Exist

Hamaguchi isn’t scared to completely change the rhythm of his film on a dime, something that is likely to frustrate as many people as it delights.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
A rural village faces disruption from the construction of a glamping site for Tokyo tourists.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2023; Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi; Writer: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi; Stars: Hitoshi Omika, Ayaka Shibutani, Ryûji Kosaka, Rei Nishikawa)

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Plastic Fantastic

A documentary about the shocking scale of the plastics crisis, with insights into the hidden structures and systematic failures of a business model which works against real change and is actually driving increased plastics production.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Isa Willinger; Stars: Joshua Baca, Michael Braungart, Ingemar Bühler)

Pure Clean Water

This documentary shows how the watercourse known as Hobson’s Conduit has for 250 years diverted a natural spring to provide Cambridge with its main source of drinking water - and how the city now faces an emergency as it begins to run dry.

(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Tony Eva)

Red River (Rio Rojo)

The story of a legendary river in the north of the Colombian Amazon, and those striving to protect the delicate ecosystem which it sustains.

(Country: France, Colombia; Year: 2023; Director: Guillermo Quintero; Stars: Oscar Doña, María Sabino)

Songs Of Earth (Fedrelandet)

Being connected to nature, what does it mean? Father knows and father shows. The director's father is 84. We follow in his footsteps into the mountain home. Into nature's smallest life and out to grand panoramas, where he grew up.

(Country: Norway; Year: 2023; Director: Margreth Olin; Writer: Margreth Olin; Stars: Jørgen Mykle)