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Duration: 45 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Amazon Alive 1 - Jungle of the Mind

A film by: Christian Baumeister
Produced by: Jörn Röver

The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. Its biological diversity is unrivalled, yet it has taken centuries to find out why. This is the story of how we have struggled to make sense of the enormity and complexity of the Amazon rainforest.




Duration: 26 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Au pays des Ours Blancs

A film by: Gilles Ragris
Produced by: France 3 - Magazine Thalassa

Become the symbol of endangered animals, polar bears a lot about him, but we know little.
Rémy Marion, and his wife alongside the last twenty years.
This winter, they are still back to Churchill in northern Canada.




Duration: 30 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Battle for Survival

A film by: Naresh Bedi
Produced by: Bedi Films

Filmed over several years, it is a comprehensive film about the tiger conservation. With rare footage of wild tigers it deals with key issues of village relocation,poaching,menace of tourism and rising man animal conflicts. The film shows that India remains the tiger's best chance for survival.




Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Bird Brain

A film by: John Capener
Produced by: A Terra Mater Factual Studios & Parthenon Entertainment Production

Bird Brain it's an insult. But have we got this wrong? This film explores the very latest research into bird intelligence "birds are more intelligent than we'd thought". From garden birds to waterfowl, we're only just beginning to uncover the surprises to be found in the minds of birds.




Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Bonobos

A film by: Alain Tixier
Produced by: MC4 / Jean-Pierre Bailly

In 2002, Claudine André created south of Kinshasa a single reserve dedicated to the preservation and study of bonobos. A paradise whose purpose is the return of bonobos in the wild. Bonobos mixes documentary and fiction, in the sanctuary.




Duration: 54 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Cerf moi fort

A film by: Jean-Paul Grossin
Produced by: 100 C Production

The desire of the slab is longer than the slab.
If full-day rut to live in the enthusiasm, the beginning and end of the first slab is tinged with envy and longing.




Duration: 49 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Crocodiles - Caring Killers

A film by: Reinhard Radke
Produced by: Jörn Röver

Crocodiles: 250 million years in the making to become the perfect killer machine. HD high-speed cameras with 2000 frames per second reveal unknown sides of their hunting strategies. Besides their brutal image we also see their soft spot. When it comes to breeding the hunters are haunted themselves.




Duration: 44 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Der Rauch, der donnert - Die Victoria-Fälle

A film by: Udo Zimmermann
Produced by: Udo A. Zimmermann

Mosi oa Tunya, "thundering smoke", the Victoriafalls were named by Africans - the biggest falls in Africa form the broadest watercurtain worldwide.
This film gives an impression of the fabulous wildlife area around the falls.




Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Des Gypaetes et des Hommes

A film by: Mathieu Le Lay
Produced by: Thierry Berrod

With the mythical bird of the Alps, the bearded vulture. More than 30 years after the launch of the reintroduction program of vulture in the Alps, the man continued his efforts to conserve this iconic species. With the cooperation of alpine parks and respect of users now acquired the massif, the firebird gradually regains its lost territories. Every birth is an additional chance of survival for this fragile and endangered vulture. We leave to the discovery and follow his adventures with men.




Duration: 44 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Expedition 50° - ... bis ans Ende Asiens

A film by: Felix Heidinger & Jens-Uwe Heins
Produced by: Udo A. Zimmermann

Straight through the middle of Europe runs latitude 50 degrees North.Along this line, five expeditions made their ways across continents and oceans. Five filmcrews experiencing entirely different landscapes and wildlife around the globe, at the latitude of extremes, 30.000 kilometers facing the sun.




Duration: 50 min.
Year completed: 2010

 Expeditionen zu den Letzten ihrer Art Folge 5

A film by: Andreas Kieling
Produced by: Andreas Kieling

Andreas Kieling experiences truly wild encounters in these two latest episodes of the globetrotting natural history series: he’s nearly trampled by an angry elephant in Namibia, and helps rescue a Brazilian fisherman attacked by a Jaguar in the Amazon rainforest – with the Jaguar still looking on! It’s all real, and it’s all caught on camera.




Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2011

 FINLAND (WILD SCANDINAVIA series)

A film by: Olivier Goetzl
Produced by: GULO FILM PRODUCTIONS for NDR Naturfilm Studio Hamburg Doclights

It looks like a mosaic of water and woodland ? FINLAND still is home to rare animals: This episode gives us numerous insights of the fascinating life of e.g. brown bears, wolves, wolverines, lynx, flying squirrels, goldeneye ducks or capercaillies and shows the whole beauty of the aurora borealis.




Duration: 43 min.
Year completed: 2011

 La Bretagne, entre falaise et océan

A film by: Augustin Viatte & Frédéric Febvre
Produced by: Valérie GRENON / GEDEON PROGRAMMES




Duration: 26 min.
Year completed: 2011

 La reine des mantas

A film by: Isabelle BILLET
Produced by: France 3 - Magazine Thalassa

There are 10 off the coast of Mozambique, a young American scientist in search of adventure, Andrea Marshall is an encounter that will change the course of its existence. A meeting with one of the most graceful creatures of the ocean: the manta ray.




Duration: 50 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Life Force: Brazil's Cerrado

A film by: Satoshi Okabe
Produced by: Shinichi Murata/ Andrew Waterworth

Life Force fuses blue-chip natural history with cutting-edge science documentary in an exploration and celebration of evolution.
On the grassland of Brazil's Cerrado, eccentric creatures evolved to become interdependent, and they acquired remarkable skills, unique shapes, and unusual habits.




Duration: 50 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Namibia - the Secret of the Fairy Circles

A film by: Barbara Fally-Puskas
Produced by: ORF

The fairy circles only exit in arid areas in southern africa. the are scientific mystery : are they the result of a meteor shower, or plants that poison the ground? or are there really fairies that create the barren circles as they dance ?




Duration: 50 min.
Year completed: 2010

 Saga of the White-Tailed Eagle

A film by: Istvan Nadaskay
Produced by: ORF

This animal drama tells the true story of an individual eagle that scientists have been stidying for several years.




Duration: 50 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Secrets of the Chesterfield islands

A film by: Christian Petron
Produced by: Cinemarine

Followed by an evaluation mission of the inventory by a team of scientists in the French islands of Chesterfield located in the Coral Sea between Australia and New Caledonia




Duration: 26 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Survivre, Animaux des Alpes en hiver

A film by: Anne et Erik Lapied
Produced by: Les Editions de la Salamandre

What the nature chamois, hares, ptarmigan and goats so that they can withstand the winter cold, snow and blizzard. From these animals when they go perfectly suited for life to survive?




Duration: 59 min.
Year completed: 2011

 The woman who swims with killer whales

A film by: Mark Woodward
Produced by: Mark Woodward

A revelatory film following the remarkable work of Ingrid Visser. The only scientist in the world to swim with wild Killer Whales.




Duration: 43 min.
Year completed: 2010

 Vivre en enfer - Créatures du sel et de l'acide

A film by: Thierry Berrod
Produced by: Thierry Berrod

There are still thirty years, scientists thought that some places on earth were sterile. However, some creatures are perfectly adapted to conditions of "life" fatal to the vast majority of other organisms. The first episode of Living in Hell takes us in different parts of the world where large salt lakes and streams acidic.




Duration: 51 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Wild Hungary - A Water Wonderland

A film by: Zoltan Török
Produced by: Jörn Röver, Britta Kiesewetter, Zoltan Török

A country like no other in Europe, Hungary is influenced by the rhythms of its rivers.  White-tailed eagles, otters and enormous catfish share the wetlands with many other species living close to the local people, often unnoticed. "Wild Hungary" is their intimate story.




Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Wild Japan: Prismatic Seas

A film by: Yasuhiro Adachi & Martin Willis
Produced by: Gen Sasaki / Hiromichi Iwasaki / Tony Chow

This two-part series explores the secrets of the Japanese archipelago, a miracle of nature. Part 2 focuses on the sea. Recent studies show that Japanese waters are the most biodiverse in the world. These waters truly offer spectacular sights, which were captured on film over a period of three years.




Duration: 49 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Wild Scandinavia - Greenland

A film by: Uwe Anders
Produced by: Jörn Röver

Huge glaciers, icebergs swimming in the sea and northern lights: Greenland is the largest island in the world with a heart of ice that rules weather, climate and living conditions of flora and fauna. This film shows how animals make their life in Greenland's extraordinary environment.




Duration: 50 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Wild Scandinavia - Norway

A film by: Jan Haft
Produced by: Jan Haft & Britta Kiesewetter

Coastal regions with a mild oceanic climate.,just a stone's throw away from harsh arctic tundra. Endless mountain ranges....interspersed with deep fjords....and dense forests.
Home to the trolls from Nordic folklore and legends. A sparsely populated country and animals that date back to the ice age. Norway is all of this and more.




Duration: 52 min.
Year completed: 2010

 WILDLIFE: Love-warrior of the Rocky Mountains: Greater Sage-grouse

A film by: Akira Matsubayashi
Produced by: Gen Sasaki / Tetsunori Kikuchi

The greater sage-grouse inhabit the 'high desert' regions of the Rocky Mountains in the United States. The program shows their quite unique behavior during the breeding season, and the harsh battle for survival of these rare birds.




Duration: 5 min.
Year completed: 2011

 La voix des conquérants

A film by: Francis Staffe
Produced by: Francis Staffe

Inevitably our forests are changing color. In autumn, the first of the Deer rary rise together in the heart of them. Then offered to those who know how to make the tremendous spectacle of discrete slab.




Duration: 5 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Land of fox

A film by: Walter Barthélemi
Produced by: Walter Barthélemi

As dawn rises lazily, a fox appears. The narrator invites us to reflection. Taming nature is willing to be responsible. In my opinion, Fox embodies the wilderness so beautiful and fragile that we must learn to understand and maintain.




Duration: 8 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Le village aux oiseaux

A film by: Michel GUIMAS
Produced by: Michel GUIMAS

A small garden, some trees, suitable nest boxes and life will be intense, yet does it open your eyes!




Duration: 5 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Mal aimés

A film by: Michel GUIMAS
Produced by: Michel GUIMAS

The serpent is a universal representative that can be found in many myths and cultures. Animal to the powerful symbolic and paradoxical, it is sometimes considered an evil beast.




Duration: 5 min.
Year completed: 2010

 Petit conte d'une prairie ordinaire

A film by: Patrice Verrier
Produced by: Patrice Verrier

When a child imagines to uncover the secrets of his father and that the reality beyond all his dreams ...




Duration: 13 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Sittelle est mon plaisir

A film by: Dominique Desbureaux
Produced by: Dominique Desbureaux

Meeting and development of a complicity between a birder and nuthatches torch pot.




Duration: 15 min.
Year completed: 2011

 Un étang en forêt

A film by: Patrice Verrier
Produced by: Patrice Verrier

The wet areas are essential to the preservation of species, if he is not too disturbed, a pond in the middle of a forest is a haven of peace that allows the observation of many species ...