Against Ecological Destruction
SaturDox 14th Documentary Screenings
February 28 – April 25, 2026

The Earth’s ecological thresholds are being crossed one by one. The climate is changing at a pace that leaves even the most pessimistic forecasts behind. Under the pressure of the energy crisis and to meet the demand for rare elements driven by the technological revolution, thousands of years-old habitats, agricultural lands, and natural resources are being plundered. Even our most fundamental sources of life, such as clean water and air, are being sacrificed for profit. The primary victims of this entire transformation, however, are the poor, who have the smallest share in the consumption frenzy that causes all this. Yet everywhere, uprisings are rising against the full-scale assault of the capital.

While Turkey continuously pushes new legislation through parliament to hand over its forests, olive groves, and lands to mining companies, it is also preparing to host the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31) in November and showcase just how “environmentally friendly” its policies are.

Organised by Depo and Documentarist, 14th edition of the SaturDox Documentary Screenings will focus on climate crisis. This year’s program consists of films and discussions that scrutinize ecocide practices and the resistances that emerge in response across the globe—from Peru to the Arctic, from Brazil to Palestine, and of course, Turkey. Because this is our story being told!

All screenings are free of charge and registration is not required. The screenings on February 28, March 14 and April 25 will be followed by talks.

PROGRAM      ↓

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Saturday, February 28, 19:00

Rejeito

Director: Pedro de Filippis
Brazil, 2023, 75’
Portuguese; with English and Turkish subtitles

After the largest mining dam in history breaks, further dam collapses threaten millions in Brazil. A state counselor confronts the government’s modus operandi, while dam refugees resist the mining companies’ abuses in their threatened communities.

• Talk: Climate Justice and Legal Struggle, Deniz Bayram

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Saturday, March 14, 19:00

A selection of films by Hakan Tosun

Another World

Director: Hakan Tosun
Turkey, 2019, 14’
Turkish

The call that started as a reaction against the gold mine plans and cutting down more than 300 thousand trees in Mount Ida, “Su ve Vicdan Nöbeti” (Water and Conscience Watch), has reached thousands of environmentalists all around the country. However, Alamos Gold and their partner local mining company Doğu Biga did not leave the area, so, in order to prevent the loss of more trees, Yaşam Savunucuları (Life Defenders) started to keep guard of the Çanakkale Kirazlı area.

We Are

Director: Hakan Tosun
Turkey, 2017, 42’
Turkish; with English subtitles

In July 2016, Yaşam ve Dayanışma Yolcuları (Travelers of Life and Solidarity) embarked on a 10-day protest journey across Turkey to witness the ongoing ecological destruction in various parts of the country and to support the life defenders resisting this destruction. Hakan Tosun accompanied this journey with his camera and documented it. In the film, Tosun addresses the resistance against destructive projects in places such as Mersin, Antalya, Muğla, Manisa, and İzmir through these solidarity visits, carried out despite various obstructions and attacks, giving voice to those who say “we are here, we will continue to exist.”

• In commemoration of Hakan Tosun: A conversation with family and friends

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Tuesday, March 31, 19:00

Nenets vs Gas

Director: Sergio Ghizzardi
France, Belgium, Finland, Norway, 2023, 75’
French, English, Russian, Nenets; with English and Turkish subtitles

In the heart of the Arctic, the Yamal peninsula is the world’s largest gas exploitation zone, a symbol of Russia’s energy hyperpower. The Nenets have been pasturing here for over 200 generations. Can they survive this industrialisation? An environmental and Arctic western, this film explores the emergence of the Northern Sea Route and the disappearance of the last Siberian route of transhumance: the success of one may mean the extinction of the other.

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Saturday, April 11, 19:00

Pig (Varken)

Director: Jorn Leeuwerink
Netherlands, 2022, 8’

A group of animals hook up a power grid to the socket-shaped snout of one big, sleeping pig. The animals use the pig’s energy for simple things at first, but soon they render themselves dependent on a city where every single thing—the useful and the useless—is automated.

Wändari (Territory)

Directors: Daniel Lagares, Mariano Agudo
Peru, 2022, 62’
Spanish, Harakbut; with English and Turkish subtitles

The southern Amazon of Peru is one of the regions with the largest biodiversity on the planet, and a territory in conflict. At the beginning of the 20th century the rubber fever brought death and slavery for thousands of natives. In the 1920s, Dominican missionaries joined a colonizing front fostered by the State, seeking access to the region’s natural resources. The initial contact was followed by the gold rush, with the cornering of the native populations that have also succumbed to extractivism. Today they are torn between mining and the defense of Wändari, their territory.

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Saturday, April 25, 19:00

Herbicidal Warfare in Gaza

Forensic Architecture
UK, 2019, 8’ 30’’
English; with Turkish subtitles

“No Traces of Life”: Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza 2023-2024

Forensic Architecture
UK, 2024, 8’
English; with Turkish subtitles

Return to al-Ma’in

Forensic Architecture
UK, 2025, 31’
English; with Turkish subtitles

How Israel uses trees to ethnically cleanse Palestine?

Mondoweiss
UK, 2024, 6’
English; with Turkish subtitles

From the Nakba 76 years ago, all the way up until today, the Jewish National Fund has been using “environmentalism” and tree-planting to greenwash Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

• Talk: Israel’s Ecocide Practices in Palestine, Harun Özgür Turgan (in collaboration with Filistin Evi Derneği)