Bay Area Film Series

Info: This decade-in-the-making, award-winning documentary by renowned environmental film directors Rebecca and Josh Tickell is at the forefront of a global movement bridging climate and regenerative agriculture. It spans five continents to showcase the farmers, scientists, and Indigenous leaders restoring the planet one acre at a time. It is the final chapter in the Tickells masterful trilogy about food and farming, following Kiss the Ground and Common Ground.

Groundswell shares inspiring stories of how regenerative approaches can rebuild soil health, draw carbon from the atmosphere, revive biodiversity, improve the nutritional value of our food, strengthen local economies and improve the lives of small farmers. The film is both a cinematic journey and a hopeful call to action, inviting audiences to reimagine our relationship with the land and recognize regeneration as a unifying path forward. The film is accompanied by an impact campaign, OneBillionAcres.org, dedicated to catalyzing...

Info: Note: This evening will include a question and answer period after the screening with some of the team associated with the film, and there will be displays and tastings of the olive oils and other products made by the Palestinian farmers showcased in the film.

This extraordinary, truly surprising documentary follows the trajectory of Nasser Abufarha, the son of a watermelon farmer, who returned from the USA to his farming village in the West Bank in 2003 to discover that local farmers were abandoning farming and their ancient olive groves. Exploited by unscrupulous middlemen, undercut by global agribusiness, and under assault by the Occupation and settlement expansion, they faced an existential crisis. Nasser realized that traditional practices and ecological knowledge that had survived for two millennia in Palestine could be lost within a single generation.

It shows how Nasser has worked with multigenerational networks of farmers to organize a 2,000-family-strong movement and...

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