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For a whole summer, 17-year-old Florencia has to look after her brother, who is trapped in a persistent vegetative state. From time to time she reads to him from a comic about plant souls that take control of human bodies at full moon.

People's associations with flora goes back a long way, taking us back to our own roots as well as to new ways of life and creative potential that reveal themselves as we deal with plants.

After a ecological collapse a scientist narrates over footage of the plants humanity lost in hopes of warning any future civilization that may be lucky enough to exist in a world with plants.

Plants can't walk. Plants don't talk. Plants can't see. Plants don't have legs.

A woman in NYC sells weed to make a little extra cash. She's never been failed by her trusty referral system, until she gets a text one fateful summer afternoon.

As time explodes, it leaves Debris. Check it out. The new film 'Corduroy Plants. (C) 2026 Shakey Pictures, Inc.

James is a secret agent who is incredibly clumsy. Yet, no matter how many mistakes he makes in his efforts to capture the bad guy, he winds up bagging the criminal

Photomicrography reveals the unusual structure and behavior of the Venus's flytrap, the trumpet plant, the cobra plant, the common pitcher plant, the sundew plant and the utricularia.

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Naked, on the back of a sheep, soft office worker Willie rides trough the forest. His body is still in the office, but his mind wanders between dangerous flowers, li-los and an imaginary friendship for a soft sheep.

Short documentary film on carnivorous plants.

The final short in the Secrets of Life series.

Indoor Plants is a family portrait with surreal touches of 2020 lockdown. A series of interviews will be interspersed with a thought that torments the protagonist during the months of confinement through reflection and performance in front of the lens. “My head hasn’t made much since during these months, and I didn’t intend for the documentary to do so either”

After the father loses self-care ability, the mother becomes a daily caregiver, like a plant growing on a boundary. Can a daughter’s love grant the mother "permission to stop"?

Short film showing plants and a scene with a lonely dog

Styawat/Leigh Joseph, a Sḵwxw̱ú7mesh Nation ethnobotanist, navigates what it means to have grown up far from her ancestral lands, now that she has been guided back home to traditional territory through the teachings of the landscape and plants.

A classic about an anteater who makes life rough for a colony of ants. In the ant community, the queen spreads warnings of their greatest enemy, the Anteater. "He's a menace, he's a brute, he will scoop you with his snoot." Their motto is "make him yell uncle," which they do when the anteater invades them.

Uses time-lapse photography to show the physical power of plants in their efforts to receive sunlight and fulfill their growth.

FYTA become plants dressing up as people staging a theater play about plants. The mirroring of embodiment, fantasy and representation creates a series of surreal interactions where sexuality meets relaxation, impossible relationships find theatrical resolutions and an excursion to a deserted resort turns into post-human documentary on nature.

Mountain plants have always been of use to humans. Whether in the Alps or the Pyrenees, we will understand which plants are edible, how to cook them, which plants have medicinal qualities. Passionate people and naturalists also alert us to the consequences of human activities on the mountain plants.

When a drug to replicate plant cells creates a sentient form of flower, the planet is over taken by flora and humankind is depleted. A Chinese task force, a widowed father and his young daughter fight to survive in a mission to inject an antidote to the core of the plants to reverse their growth.

Botanical gardens have long aroused the curiosity and wonder of visitors with exotic species from all over the world. Today they are taking on a new role as vital centres for the protection of biodiversity. From Berlin to London to the French Alps, we take a peek behind-the-scenes of these fascinating institutions.

It tells the story of 3 scientific renegades: a botanist (Robin Wall Kimmerer), a forester (Suzanne Simard), and a philosopher (Paco Calvo) who listen and learn from plants. Today the world is finally waking up to their message.

As she plays a character that ressembles her in a story that ressembles hers, Sarah realizes that she needs go get away from her partner and the movie set she's in to get her well-being back.

On a dystopian island, where the government has banned organic plant life, a man with an artificial flower shop grows real plants in secret, cultivating their surreal properties, trying to breathe some air into the smothering environment.

Two radish journalists run around in a garden and ask the other vegetables about how they feel about being picked by humans and what this means to them. At the end of the work day the radishes get picked and they themselves have to reflect on what being picked means to them.

A man invites a disparate group of old friends to his new home for a deadly party.

In addition to asexual reproduction, sexual reproduction based on seed development is common in the world of plants. The possibility of selectively crossing male and female plants to obtain seeds with desired characteristics is of great importance for the breeding of new plant varieties. The short film shows the dispersal of seeds - alone or together with fruits or fruit parts

How and why what we eat is the cause of the chronic diseases that are killing us, and changing what we eat can save our lives one bite at a time.

Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu's garden, which is home to creatures that serve as models for his paintings, including numerous bugs and cats. A sweet and heartwarming day begins for Morikazu, who gazed at these garden creatures on a daily basis for over three decades, and those who love him.

Colgrave rolls out another collection of his crazy, surrealist creatures and this time they are moving to the music.

Humans today are masters at consuming hallucinogenic substances, whether as stimulants or narcotics. But our feathered, furry, and scaly companions also sometimes get intoxicated. Animals have been consuming plants, fruits, and mushrooms that sometimes get them high for much longer than we humans have.

A group of scientist use an extreme method of physical and psychological torture on a variety of houseplants in order to coax them to communicate with humans.

A climbing, coiling, trailing vine. Inescapable growth. It smothers that which it climbs.

Adriana, a woman of Indigenous heritage and an advocate for ancestral medicine, believes that Yagé, the sacred plant, is trying to deliver a message that could transform her life. As she reconnects with her roots, she begins to ask: How can ancestral knowledge survive in a world that’s always changing? What does it mean to belong, to remember, to heal? In seeking these answers, she’s forced to confront her identity and redefine her purpose. What she discovers may reshape not only her own path, but the future of Indigenous legacy in the modern world.

Kudzu, or Pueraria Thunbergiana, is a vine threatening to take over large portions of the Southern landscape. Imported from Japan by the Departement of Agriculture in the 30's for erosion control, its spreading growth has become a problem of menacing proportions. Kudzu is an off-beat, witty, informative documentary about the vine that is devouring the South. Featuring the Kudzu Queen, the Kudzu rock band, a cast of real-life characters and an appearance by former President Jimmy Carter, it illustrates how Southern cultural traditions have quickly grown up around a botanical pest. The eminent American poet and novelist James Dickey ("Deliverance"), recites three stanzas of his poem, "Kudzu."

Hand processed expired Kodak 7291, Camera: Beaulieu R16, Lens: Angenieux 12-120mm with +3 Diopter, Polarising filter for the clouds. Hand processed in C-41 chem using a Lomo UPB-1A tank. Still haven't mastered removal of the rem-jet anti-halation layer (thats all the white 'static' on the film). The film expired about 40 years ago.

In a post-apocalyptic world devoid of plant life, a lone survivor fights desperately to reclaim hope and life. Upon unexpectedly discovering seeds, she risks everything to cultivate humanity’s last plant.

An inexperienced young man tries to overcome his insecurities on his next date before his engaged brother visits.

Novelist Emma Strand is on vacation at the seaside in 1892 California with her second husband Albert when she encounters her first husband George and his mentally unstable new wife, Lillian. Emma and Albert take refuge from a sudden storm at George and Lillian's mansion. Over the course of the evening, Emma must confront her past, the temptation of adultery, and the disturbing possibility the house is haunted by George and Lillian's recently drowned daughter Hazel.

This documentary rescues the valuable work of Martha Colmenares, an indigenous woman from the Zapotec highlands, who in the 1980s filmed the life and customs of her own community, becoming a pioneer of indigenous documentaries. And for the first time, her forgotten story, for forty years, will no longer be invisible.