Family Saturday: Nature Films

Join us for a fun and enlightening program of short films about people’s relationship with nature. Walk-in-the-Forest (Diane Obomasawin, 2009, 3 min.) follows a medicine man on a walk in the woods that leads to the discovery of a secret world. A variation on a fable by Aesop, The Bear and the Mouse (F.W. & Ingmar Remmler, 1966, 7 min.) presents an unlikely friendship between a bear and a field mouse. The beautiful stop-motion animation A Sea Turtle Story (Kathy Schultz, 2012, 9 min.) chronicles the life cycle of the critically endangered sea turtle. The humorous Deep Threat (Zlatko Grgic, 1977, 7 min.) shows us what went wrong after the ancestors of humans left the sea. Lord of the Sky (Ludmila Zeman & Eugen Spaleny, 1991, 12 min.) is a parable about the importance of living in harmony with nature, and in What Rhymes with Toxic (Lynn Smith, 2021, 5 min.), a mild-mannered turtle speaks truth to power after a chemical spill.

Total program time: 45 min.