По време на пилотирана мисия до Марс, след силна буря, астронавтът Марк Уатни е счетен за мъртъв и е изоставен от колегите си. Но Уатни оживява и се озовава съвсем сам на враждебната планета. Разполагайки само с оскъдни запаси, той трябва да се осланя на своята изобретателност, съобразителност и дух, за да оцелее и да намери начин да сигнализира на Земята, че е жив. На разстояние от милиони мили, НАСА и екип международни учени работят неуморно, за да върнат Марсианеца обратно вкъщи, а междувременно екипажът му планира безразсъдна, ако не и невъзможна, спасителна мисия. Целият свят се обединява, за да подпомогне безопасното завръщане на Уатни.
Прекарал целия си живот в домa. чиято градина поддържа, Ченс знае само това което е виждал по телевизията, за света извън градината. Попадайки в истинския свят, той случайно става част от група влиятелни политически фигури. Появява се и по телевизионни предавания, където повърхностите му коментари се възприемат като задълбочени и смислени - до къде ли може да стигне Ченс?
Бавноразвиващ се мъж е превърнат в гений, чрез последните открития на науката. Скоро, обаче, учените започват да губят контрол над този брилянтен ум, който започва да има все по странни идеи...
After returning from a year-long Moon mission, Cassie, a NASA botanist, finds herself in a remote cabin in the woods, where her estranged twin sister, Stella, a former NASA architect, has found a new life with climate activist Bryan. Old wounds resurface as the sisters attempt to pick up the pieces of the rivalry that broke them apart.
Парите текат като река през широките пръсти на плейбоя Хенри Греъм (Уолтър Матау). След като профуква солидното си наследство по яхти, скъпи ресторанти и луксозни италиански коли, той трябва спешно да намери нов начин да поддържа разточителния си лайфстайл. Хенри се решава на отчаяна крачка – да се омъжи за богатата, но невзрачна Хенриета Лоуъл (Елейн Мей). Планът му е да я убие, за да вземе парите й. Обаче, изненадващо за самия него, той се влюбва в нея. Този малък, но важен детайл, ще промени нещата по-драстичен и твърде забавен начин.
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.
Сюрреалистична гротескова комедия, откровена шега с основните британски институции - англиканската църква, Скотланд Ярд и дори английската неделя.
A botanical expedition to the Himalayas captures a Yeti and brings it back alive to Los Angeles, where it escapes and runs amok, seeking food.
A Montreal man imagines a mermaid in place of the writer whose picture appears on a novel.
When scientists in the Antarctic uncover a mysterious seed pod, the Doctor is called in to investigate. He soon realises it is extraterrestrial and extremely dangerous. At the same time, however, ruthless millionaire plant-lover Harrison Chase has learned of the find and decides he must have the pod for his collection of rare and beautiful flora. Meanwhile the pod itself harbours intelligent life with sinister plans of its own...
Stockholm 1956. The Swedish botanist, candidate and lieutenant Nils von Ekelöw, presents his research to a panel of professors.
Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose discoveries of hallucinogenic plants laid the foundation for the psychedelic sixties. Now in this two hour History Channel TV Special, his former student Wade Davis, follows in his footsteps to experience the discoveries that Schultes brought to the western world. Shot around the planet, from Canada to the Amazon, we experience rarely seen native hallucinogenic ceremonies and find out the true events leading up to the Psychedelic Sixties. Featuring author/adventurer Wade Davis ("Serpent and the Rainbow"), Dr. Andrew Weil, the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and many others, this program tells the story of the discovery of peyote, magic mushrooms and beyond: one man's little known quest to classify the Plants of the Gods. Richard Evans Schultes revolutionized science and spawned another revolution he never imagined.
The year 2067. A spaceship travels through the menacing emptiness of space carrying thousands of plants and seeds from a dying Earth in search of an uncertain and very distant future.
A botanist has a run in with a group of cocaine dealers and is kidnapped, but not before calling on her brother for help.
A story of four childhood friends who mysteriously disappeared while camping in the rural mountains of Trans Ili Alatau. The following events were recorded on Sultan's videocamera, who was making his student thesis project on a local plant called the Asafoetida.
"There are things in this world that are yet to be named" centers around Solanum plastisexum - an Australian tomato whose sexual expression is unpredictable and unstable, challenging even the fluid norms of the plant kingdom. Footage of the team of botanists who recently used their Solanum research to explode notions of sexual normativity in any plant or animal is combined with a voiceover of letters sent between science writer Rachel Carson and her lover Dorothy Freeman. "There are things in this world that are yet to be named" is a meditation on erasure, indefinability, and the intersection of queer and environmental histories.
14-part special in which botanist Francis Hallé explains forest science and processes. Part of the "Once Upon a Forest" physical release.
Short film in competition at the 48Hours Film Project. Sci-Fi/Mystery genre.
Directed by Simone Marsella, starring Ludovica Castrichella, Dario Grasso and Federico Imola.
Glow Worm in a Jungle is about Hema Sane, a retired botany professor, who has never used electricity in her life. Living surrounded by nature, amidst a concrete jungle, she shares her philosophy of life with doses of humor and wisdom.