EcoKino is your go-to resource for documentary films on sustainability and climate change issues.
EcoKino features documentary films and short films. The documentaries are either dubbed or subtitled into Arabic.
The films are available for screening free of charge, hosted on Vimeo.
Below, you will find the titles with a short description and questions you might ask your audience to debate after the screening.
How to use EcoKino:
- Choose the film(s) you wish to screen from the list below.
- Fill the screening request form and you will receive a temporary password to Vimeo.
- Use the password on Vimeo to screen the film. We advise you to buffer the film ahead of the screening and keep the window of your computer open during the screening in order to avoid problems with the internet.
- Get inspired by the questions provided in this guide when facilitating debates after the screening.
Fill out the evaluation form and send it to DEDI a long with three photos from your event.
List of Films
Documentary Features
The Recycling Myth (60 minutes)
From the WHY PLASTIC series produced by WHY Foundation (2021)
In the last few years, the plastic pollution crisis has become an international scandal. But the plastic packaging industry has declared that it knows how to solve the problem: By Recycling.
Coca-Cola’s Plastic Promises (45 minutes)
From the WHY PLASTIC series produced by WHY Foundation (2021)
In 2018 Coca-Cola, the world’s largest soft drinks producer, set ambitious targets to reduce the amount of its plastic packaging that ends up in the environment. This film investigates Coca- Cola’s ‘World Without Waste’ strategy.
We the Guinea Pigs (50 minutes)
From the WHY PLASTIC series produced by WHY Foundation (2021)
“We the Guinea Pigs” investigates why we are still constantly – and increasingly – exposed to dangerous chemicals through our plastic use, even though researchers have warned us about the potential adverse health effects for decades.
Immuto (44 minutes)
Produced by Island Reach Organization (2020)
Shot in 2019 in Vanuatu, Vietnam, Morocco, the EU, UK, and US, Immuto features stories of crisis and action told by compelling change makers living and working on the frontlines.
Short Films
By the Sea (3 mins)
From the WHY PLASTIC series produced by WHY Foundation (2021)
Film is available to screen and share freely in English and Arabic.
With the rate of plastic pollution in oceans increasing at an alarming rate, our beaches are on route to be less peaceful and more polluted. By the Sea gives us a dystopian idea of what our beaches might look like in the future if we continue at this rate.
Plastic Ecosystem (2 mins)
From WHY PLASTIC campaign produced by WHY Foundation (2021)
Film is available to screen and share freely in English and Arabic.
Plastic Ecosystem is a stop motion film, that shows us what it might be like to have an eco system that consists entirely of plastic – a future that we may have to face, if the global consumption of plastic is not reduced.
A Small Deed (3 mins)
From the WHY PLASTIC series produced by WHY Foundation (2021)
Film is available to screen and share freely in English and Arabic.
The Pune Ploggers is an Indian group of trash collectors. Their concept is simple, combine jogging with picking up waste from the streets. A small deed that makes a difference.
Un Vestige (2 mins)
From WHY PLASTIC campaign produced by WHY Foundation (2021)
Film is available to screen and share freely in English and Arabic.
Un Vestige is a French short film that depicts a little girl making an unusual discovery – a plastic bag on a beach. This film shows us what it might be like to have future without waste, where plastic is a distant memory.
