Is this our last chance?
Screening Program

Calling attention to the ecological and social dimensions of climate change, the 2026 edition of Is this our last chance? offers a reflection on forests as shared habitats. Spanning diverse geographies—including the Amazon, the Congo Basin, Siberia, Canada, and Southern Europe—the selection explores how forests are managed, altered, abandoned, or defended, and how these processes shape everyday life, local knowledge, and long-term ecological continuity.

Walden traces the journey of a fir tree from Austria to the Amazon rainforest, mapping a central route in the global trade of raw materials. Taming the Garden documents the uprooting of century-old trees along Georgia’s Black Sea coast and their relocation to a private garden. Paradis [Paradise] follows residents of a remote village in northeastern Siberia as they mobilize to confront massive wildfires triggered by an unprecedented heatwave and prolonged drought. Delikado accompanies a small group of environmental defenders in Palawan in their efforts to protect what has been described as the “last ecological frontier” of the Philippines. Set in a former colonial research station in the Congo Basin, L’Arbre de l’Authenticité [The Tree of Authenticity] revisits the legacy of forestry research and its enduring impact on present-day environmental injustices. Havumetsän lapset [Once Upon a Time in a Forest] captures a group of young activists in Finland as they organize to oppose industrial logging in boreal forests. Set in rural Sicily near a US military base, Valentina e i MUOStri [Valentina and the MUOSters] unfolds as an intimate family portrait, rooted in a landscape shaped by intensive farming, wildfires, and satellite systems. In Anyox, a former mining town in Canada becomes the setting for a careful observation of how traces of past industrial activity continue to shape both the land and collective memory. We Are Guardians follows Indigenous forest guardians in the Brazilian Amazon, focusing on their ongoing efforts to protect ancestral lands from illegal logging and deforestation.

From logging and uprooting to wildfire response and forest protection, the selected films foreground forests as living ecosystems shaped by many forms of life. Together, they address questions of coexistence—how humans, plants, animals, and diverse organisms continue to inhabit shared spaces under increasing pressure.

The 2026 edition of Is this our last chance? is programmed by Alâ Taleb from Salt.

PROGRAM

Walden, Daniel Zimmermann, 2018, 106’
Wednesday, February 18, 19.00

Taming the Garden, Salomé Jashi, 2021, 91’
Friday, February 20, 19.00

Talk: Uğur Zeydanlı, “Forest Ecosystems and the Biodiversity Crisis”
Saturday, February 21, 14.00

Paradis [Paradise], Alexander Abaturov, 2022, 89’
Saturday, February 21, 16.00

Delikado, Karl Malakunas, 2022, 94’
Saturday, February 21, 18.00

L’Arbre de l’Authenticité [The Tree of Authenticity], Sammy Baloji, 2025, 89’
Tuesday, February 24, 19.00

Havumetsän lapset [Once upon a Time in a Forest], Virpi Suutari, 2024, 93’
Thursday, February 26, 19.00

Valentina e i MUOStri [Valentina and the MUOSters], Francesca Scalisi, 2024, 80’
Saturday, February 28, 14.00

Anyox, Ryan Ermacora, 2022, 87’
Saturday, February 28, 16.00

We Are Guardians, Chelsea Greene, 2023, 85’
Saturday, February 28, 18.00

Online Screenings
March 1–8, saltonline.org

Forest Walks: Burçin Çıngay, “Silva Memoriae / What the Forest Remembers”
March 1 and 15, 12.00

Salt’s Is this our last chance? program is supported by its founder, Garanti BBVA, and is open to everyone.