Green Screen: Everything you need to know!
Join us at the Dukes for a festival celebrating the natural world through films, workshops, theatre and storytelling!
Keep reading to see the full lineup of this year's Green Screen. There's plenty on offer for everyone, including recorded Q&A's, Crafting workshops and Zog Day.
5 - 11 June
OUR LAND takes us to the heart of the ‘Right to Roam’ movement as it embarks on a provocative trail of mass trespass, campaigning and education, while also exploring landowners’ concerns around environmental protection and the danger such widespread access could pose to a landscape already under threat.
Our Planet, The People, My Blood (15)
12 June
Since 1945, more than 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been conducted worldwide. Though the era of atmospheric testing in 1996, the radiation issues remain an active crisis for millions. ‘Our Planet, The People, My Blood’ is a global exposé of the communities devastated by Nuclear Weapons Testing.
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet + Recorded Q&A (PG)
14 & 16 June
Sir David Attenborough’s feature documentary, David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet, premiered in cinemas across the globe in September 2020. The film serves as Attenborough’s witness statement for the natural world and his vision for the future.
28 June & 1 July
Renowned Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a cinematic time capsule to hold onto this moment and send it to the future, before everything he loves slips away. Using his own collected archives, his grandparents’ photographs, and films, as well as traditional songs and folktales, Andri interlaces his family’s story with that of the land around him. From Academy Award®-nominated director Sara Dosa, TIME AND WATER is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.
5 - 9 July
While their fighting parents (Clare Dunne & Michael Socha) tear their hair out with worry, runaways Finn (Roman Griffin Davis) and his live-wire younger brother Charlie (Dexter Sol Ansell) embark on an epic adventure from Yorkshire, over land and sea, to the Wild West coast of Ireland. With the free-spirited busker Cate (Maisie Williams) helping the young boys along the way, their destination is Dingle, County Kerry, and their estranged, beloved Grandfather (BAFTA-award winner Bill Nighy), who their parents haven’t spoken to since the fateful events of the previous summer.
FAMILY FUN!
The Snail and The Whale (U) + Crafting Workshop
20 June
A tiny snail goes on an amazing journey by hitching a ride on the tail of a huge humpback whale.
A beautiful tale of an unlikely friendship, a tour of the world and a heroic rescue.
Based on the picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler.
Zog + Zog & The Flying Doctors (U)
11 June
Zog wants to learn how to fly, roar, and breathe fire in his first years at Dragon School. He’s desperate to impress his teacher and win a golden star, but he’s accident-prone and has to be helped by a kind young girl who patches up his bumps and bruises. Then in Year Four, he has to capture a princess – can the young girl help him with his trickiest challenge yet?
Zog and the Flying Doctors - Princess Pearl, Sir Gadabout and Zog the dragon make a most unlikely flying doctor team who are committed to treating all kinds of creatures, real and mythical - including a sunburnt mermaid, a unicorn with an extra horn and a lion with the flu. When the King captures Pearl, she has to choose between her freedom and curing her sick uncle.With Zog and Gadabout’s help, can she find a way?
UK GREEN FILM FESTIVAL
21 June
In a world shaped by speed and excess, 90-year-old Agatha Bock’s off-grid life offers another path.
Fiercely independent and alone on her ancestral farm in Canada, Agatha cultivates heirloom seeds, vegetables and flowers entirely by hand, preserving generations of ecological knowledge and sustainable practice. Without running water or modern technology, her daily rituals reflect a profound connection to land, seasonality and self-sufficiency.
Filmed over six years by an all-female crew on luminous 16mm, AGATHA’S ALMANAC immerses us in handmade textures, rural sounds and meditative processes; a quietly powerful window into a defiant way of living.
24 June
For a Swiss family of eight, life unfolds at sea. For over 20 years, the Schwörers have sailed the globe, raising six children onboard while dedicating their lives to raise awareness about climate change, conduct field-based research in the world’s most remote regions and inspire young people to protect the planet.
Filmed over seven years, HOME IS THE OCEAN is a warm and intimate portrait of a family redefining ideas of home, learning and togetherness; an unconventional family life shaped by purpose, resilience and nature. But when a violent storm strikes, they must reconsider the choices that have shaped their world.
