The Redford Center Fellowship for Environmental Film

Directed by Shaunak Sen

The cost of Delhi’s noxious ecology is starkly visible in the multitude of patients crowding the city’s busiest hospitals. The Delicate is a lyrical portrait of a surgeon at the frontlines of this unprecedented public health emergency. Early in filming, the surgeon notices the film director is rapidly losing weight, and a cancer diagnosis follows. Through a poetic (and often absurd) account of the surgeon, the hospital and the director-patient, the film explores the terrifying toll of Delhi’s raging toxicity.

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Directed by Pieter Van Eecke

On air and under pressure, meteorologists worldwide become reluctant harbingers of doom as extreme weather intensifies. Faced with censorship, denial, and emotional tolls, they must confront a haunting question under darkening skies: How to tell the truth when truth becomes unwelcome?

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Directed by Rob G. Green

As grizzly conflict moves from the backcountry to the backyard, three bear managers dedicate their lives to keeping Montana connected for those on two legs, and on four.

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Co-Directed by Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan

From New York City’s swampy, damp, and dingy “other worlds” where mosquitoes thrive to crowded streets and urban canyons, the film follows a multi-ethnic team’s quest to keep the people of the metropolis safe from the deadly viruses these tiny insects carry. Here, the “heroes” are a mild-mannered 66-year-old immigrant from Pakistan, a gutsy woman from Malaysia, and a bright, ambitious man of Bangladeshi origin.

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Co-Directed by Anna Sandilands and Ewan McNicol

In a small forest in rural France, a mythical figure who shares his refuge with a delightful family of creatures, makes some of the world’s most sought-after wine the oldest way. When the seasons turn stranger than anyone can remember, threatening to unravel the world around them, he turns to nature itself to find harmony.

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Directed by Tasha Van Zandt

Told through Koko the gorilla’s eyes and a lifetime of never-before-seen archival footage, Penny & Koko reveals the extraordinary 47-year bond between the world’s most famous gorilla and pioneering scientist Dr. Penny Patterson, a relationship that shattered assumptions about the divide between humans and other animals and asks what becomes possible when we learn to truly listen across species.

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Directed by Fábio Nascimento

The last howler monkey in the region, Encantado searches for a troop but finds only his own reflection. Allan, a local young man, recognizes himself in that loneliness and seeks a different future for himself and his species.

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Directed by Caitlyn Greene

Two fiery Louisiana souls battle the Mississippi River as it threatens to erase them, while the Army Corps struggles to maintain dominance over the landscape. Darkly surreal and intensely alive, The River is an allegory for humankind’s hubris: what happens when nature claims what we thought we could control?

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Blurring fiction and documentary, a woman draws from personal history to explore the Western genre and reveal how historical inequalities fuel climate collapse and endanger millions of Brazil’s poorest today.

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Directed by Andrew H. Brown

Along Alaska’s roadless Kuskokwim River, a Yup’ik radio station keeps dozens of villages gossiping, praying, and reporting what’s in their nets, even as two advancing corporate powers — a colossal gold mine pushing to break ground upriver and industrial trawlers stripping the sea below — close in. A station manager and an Yup’ik elder fight to keep the signal, and their people, from going silent.

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