Session 5: Nature and the Environment

This session asks a quiet but urgent question: how do we live alongside the natural world — and what do we lose when we don’t? A biologist cycles Patagonia seeking peace between pumas and farmers, a mountain guide reflects on 35 years of glacial retreat, and a photographer closes a landmark million-image climate project. Between these bigger stories sit equally powerful ones — a man retracing his grandmother’s alpine sketches, fearless older women cleaning ocean floors, and a craftsman spending his life building homes for wild bees. Seven films, one shared hope: that paying close attention to the natural world might just help us save it.