The ACTUAL Definitive Water Review(2024)

Flow & Rive(de)

Elemental(en)

In a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy will discover something elemental: how much they have in common.

Water(bo)

A Tibetan woman collects water near her family's yak farm and brings it back home 80-pounds full, in a ritual that takes her an hour to complete. A selection from Peabody Award-winning documentarian Bari Pearlman’s Nangchen Shorts series.

South Park the Streaming Wars(en)

Cartman locks horns with his mom in a battle of wills while an epic conflict unfolds that threatens South Park’s very existence.

Careless Reef part 2: Abu Kiffan(en)

Abu Kiffan is the name of a reef near Safaga in Egypt. In the film we are drowned in sound, time slows down and we are given a closer look at what’s going on. Part two of Holthuis’ series Careless Reef, four films about the world under water.

Égouts de Paris : L'Envers de la Ville Lumière(fr)

Memorial(en)

A memorial mourns as time passes

To Dudes & Ett Glass Vann(nb)

The Pearl Button(es)

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.

Water, Water Every Hare(en)

Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole floods, causing him to float to the laboratory of an evil scientist who wants to use his brain for a robot.

How We Became Friends(en)

two people decide who will save a dog inside their pool.

Vorsicht Grundwasser(de)

Educational short film about ground water

Les Pouvoirs thérapeutiques de l'eau(fr)

The Flood(en)

The decision to move to Holland doesn't sound like a wise idea. Why move to a country that could be flooded at any moment? For the last 25 years, the political climate has shifted. The public debate on migration has become harsher, more heated, and polarized. What would have been considered right-wing xenophobia back then, is now considered mainstream. Populists simplify complex realities into good and evil, victims and perpetrators: ‘us’ versus ‘them’. Their rhetoric often consists of dehumanizing words and metaphors. One of these is ‘water’. In reality, water is not an immediate threat to the average Dutch person; but it is a huge threat to the thousands trying to reach the Netherlands. People trying to survive the Mediterranean Sea in rubber boats. Trying to survive winter on the Aegean coast in primitive tents. To them, water really is deadly.

Mar Urbano Lisboa(pt)

Slow Drown(fr)

Swimming, Dancing(en)

Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present), from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog. Inspired by the city symphonies of the 1920s, Swimming, Dancing pieces together a “river symphony”, evoking the images, sounds and contradictions that make up the river’s turbulent history.

Did It Satisfy Your Desire?(pt)

A man tries to satisfy his desire after seeing a commercial about a new type of water that is coming to the markets.

South Park the Streaming Wars Part 2(en)

A drought has brought the town of South Park to the brink of disaster.

The Water(es)

The water is a metaphorical view of life in the drought of the people living in Pustec by Prespa Lake.