In The Badgers, sheep herders campaign for the rights to free roam amidst the ‘modernising’ world’s continued processes of enclosure and exclusion, with shepherding on common land standing at the heart of the environment, community and culture.

In How to Move Your Ancestors, after being forced to move the burial site of their ancestors, the filmmaker’s family maintain care and compassion for both those that have come before them and those that will follow.

In Armat, tree roots are understood as a metaphor for the human connection to one’s place of origin, drawing parallels to how individuals and communities, as well as soil and ecology, all contribute to notions of identity and groundedness.

These three films allow the following discussion to be a place to reflect on the constantly in-flux connection between people and land across time, opening conversations on how ecosystemic relationships can be maintained through acts of care, compassion and sensitivity.

FILM BLOCK 1: KNOT post-screening discussion facilitated by…

Beatriz Urze (they/them) is a Portuguese artist and researcher interested in the ways in which art can be used to (re)connect with the environment and encourage systems of degrowth while bringing value to local communities. Beatriz is the maker of the film block one screener An Ancient Green (Um Verde Antigo) and a member of the KFF2026 programming team.

Tara Rafaty (she/her) is a researcher, early-career curator and postgraduate student of visual, material and museum anthropology focusing her research and practice on community building through 'making-together', multisensory exhibition curation, and the effects of nationalist visual symbolism on internal senses of identity through political instability. Tara is also a member of the KFF2026 programming team.

Molly B Thomas (she/her) is a freelance community researcher, filmmaker and mountain guide, whose practice connects community, nature and culture in Eryri/Snowdonia. Molly’s film Llechi y Ddear (Slate of Earth) was featured at the VisAnth Films showcase – our first film festival in 2023.

Clara Stephanie Schieber Lorenesi (she/her) is a Guatemalan filmmaker and photographer working in fiction and ethnographic film, and award-winning writer-director of Espacios Vacios (Empty Spaces). She also taught Storytelling at Guatemalan Universities.