This year’s festival will begin on Saturday February 15 with free screenings at Federation Square before relocating to Cinema Nova for the week. Highlight films include: Aim High in Creation, a documentary about an AFI award-winning director Anna Broinowski’s attempt to stop fracking (digging shale rock for gas) in North Korea; Revolutionary Optimists details the story of slum children who bring portable water to their village for the first time; Growing Cities, a documentary about US students who try to solve the global food crisis, and Project Wild Thing, a film where a man tries to ‘sell’ nature to children.
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