We are delighted to be able to present, in partnership with our dear friends at the David Brower Center and at 360 Degrees Communications, a series of several great new films this fall and winter.
LOCATION: David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley
$10 suggestion donation / $25 for all 3 screenings [no one turned away for lack of funds]
Wednesday, November 11, 2026 · 7 pm
Groundswell
Directed by Rebecca and Josh Tickell; narrated by Demi Moore and featuring Woody Harrelson
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 the global transition to certified regenerative agriculture. Building on the momentum and the success of the 100 Million Acres campaign, so far over 345 million acres have been certified or are in managed transition, and the monumental goal of getting to 1 Billion Acres by 2030 is achievable if we all get involved. Don’t miss this inspiring film that uses intimate portraits and striking imagery to reframe global agriculture not as a driver of collapse but as means to balance the Earth’s climate and that invites us to see the very Earth under our feet as a vital and overlooked solution to humanity’s greatest crisis.
Length : 94 minutes
Wednesday, December 2, 2026 · 7 pm
The Land of Canaan
Directed by Maggie Lemere
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 Fair Trade cooperative that is preserving the ancient olive tree ecosystem and showing how food sovereignty, environmental stewardship, and cultural preservation are inseparable.
While people often come to know Palestine through profound tragedy and conflict, this is an unexpected and nuanced story about love and connection with an ancient landscape and visionary leadership that introduces a new way of organizing socially and economically. It reveals a little-known, seldom-seen side of contemporary Palestine, one that is beautiful, inviting, and inspiring.
Length: 87 minutes
Instagram: @landofcanaanfilm