Take on Earth

The films in Take on Earth explore the fragile and often conflicted relationship between humans and the world they inhabit. From a community grappling with the aftermath of disaster, to farmers caught between tradition and wilderness, to scientists questioning the cost of progress – each story asks: how far can we go before the earth, and its creatures, push back?

Back to Fukushima

Poetic documentary about the town of Namie, which was evacuated after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Now the Japanese government has built ‘renewal housing developments’. The sparse residents live their lives with a quiet dignity and take care of the place with little gestures of hope and beauty. But underneath, there is anger.

Derek vs Derek

In the idyllic English countryside lives an intensive dairy farmer called Derek. One day his neighbour, also called Derek, forsakes farming tradition and starts turning his land over to wild nature. How does the community react when one of its own turns his back on their way of life?

Sentient

An investigation into laboratory research on animals exposes a hidden world in which it’s not just the animals getting hurt. The story of Dr. Lisa Jones Engel, a primatologist turned animal welfare advocate, asks whether harming animals and ourselves in science’s name is justified.