OUR NEXT FILMS: 

WOMAN AT WAR 

Wednesday, August 12 at 7 PM

Peacock Hall

Woman at War (2018) is a critically acclaimed Icelandic feature film about Halla, a 50-year-old choir director who leads a secret double life as a radical environmental activist sabotaging a polluting aluminum smelter in Iceland. It was the Icelandic Oscar entry. Although Halla is a fictional character, the story of the toxic air pollution and hazardous waste from aluminum smelters is very real. This industry uses 80% of Iceland’s cheap renewable (geothermal) energy. US aluminum production has shrunk from 33 to just 4 smelters (New York, Indiana, Kentucky, and South Carolina) because of the high cost of electricity. The stunning aspect of this movie, is its filmmaking techniques. The filmmaker is an environmental demonstrator himself who lavished this story with extra production value.

100 minutes plus captions.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/U2v3_jHrvBQ?si=4BaXGkbT2NfJb9GY

GROUNDSWELL

Wednesday, September 9, 7 PM

Peacock Hall

Join this cinematic journey across 5 continents featuring soil regeneration with practical and proven farming practices that store vast amounts of carbon deep underground and produce more nutrient-dense food. Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson talk with farmers, scientists, Indigenous leaders, and visionaries who are proving that regenerative farming works at scale, reversing three interconnected crises: climate change, species extinction, and catastrophic topsoil loss. Grasslands are breathing again. Species are returning. Yields are climbing as soil comes back to life. In some locales, farmer-led solutions elevate effective policy over the resistance of Big Ag that promotes chemicals and monocultures.

94 minutes with captions. Followed by a short discussion.

This new 2026 film completes the trilogy of KISS THE GROUND and COMMON GROUND which Sustainable Rossmoor have shown previously.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/ZaTUABb2c0I?si=ORs4KLWnO28wRy15