Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival

Human Flowers of Flesh

Helena Wittmann, France / Germany, 2022, 106 mins

After a stirring encounter with the French Foreign Legion, Ida (Dogtooth’s Angeliki Papoulia), sets sail with her own corps of five men, none of whom speak the same language, to trace the route of this fabled troop. Their voyage will take them from Marseille to Corsica and finally to Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, the historical headquarters of the Legion. Along the way, boundaries blur. Life at sea produces a special kind of mutual understanding. A legionnaire of yore makes an about-face. In her spellbinding follow-up to the critically acclaimed Drift, Helena Wittmann invites us to relinquish control and join her on a Mediterranean voyage unlike any other.

Time: 1:00pm

Skin of Glass

Denise Zmekhol, USA / Brazil, 2023, 110 mins

A poetic and personal cinematic meditation on displacement and loss, Skin of Glass follows filmmaker Denise Zmekhol’s journey after discovering that her late father's most celebrated work as an architect, a modernist glass skyscraper in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil, has become occupied by hundreds of homeless families.

Time: 3:30pm

With Peter Bradley

Alex Rappoport, USA, 2023, 85 mins

An intimate portrait and a study of the creative process, With Peter Bradley is situated entirely at the artist’s rural home and studio, unfolding over changing seasons. The sole figure on screen, Bradley narrates his life in a series of unscripted conversations: often provocative, sometimes bitter, and full of surprises. For years Bradley thought musician Miles Davis was his father, adding dimension to a lifelong passion for jazz, inextricably linked to his creative process: Bradley paints to music, seeing sound as color and translating the sensation to canvas. Jazz tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson’s classy score seamlessly fuses with Bradley’s witty repartee. Bradley’s confidence and insistence on what makes a picture a complete picture speaks to the mysterious yet intuitive nature of his creativity.

Time: 6:00pm

Snow Leopard

Pema Tseden, China, 2023, 109 mins

On the Tibetan plateau, two brothers face off – a herder who is enraged that a snow leopard has killed nine of his rams, and a monk who believes he can communicate with the leopard. Directed by the late Pema Tseden, the first director from China to make films shot entirely in Tibet, Snow Leopard captures beautifully the complicated relationship with nature and society on the Tibetan plateau.

Time: 8:30pm