Humans, Animals and the Natural World — World Science Festival Brisbane Film Program — CANCELLED

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UPDATE, March 7, 2022: Humans, Animals and the Natural World — World Science Festival Brisbane Film Program has been cancelled due to Brisbane's floods.

It's one of life's simple pleasures, and one that's resonated all the more after lockdowns, self-isolation stints and otherwise spending more time indoors than normal due to the pandemic. That'd be communing with the natural world — although, when you're at home, that pet cat that keeps you company and those green babies on your windowsill do obviously count.

Filmmakers have been fascinated with humanity's relationship with nature for as long as movies have been made, and the past few years have thrown up plenty of examples of top-notch documentaries pondering the topic. For this year's World Science Festival Brisbane, the Gallery of Modern Art's Australian Cinematheque has rounded up six such flicks, which'll all let you escape into nature from your cinema seat.

The Humans, Animals and the Natural World program runs between Friday, March 11–Sunday, March 13, kicking off with  Fantastic Fungi: The Magic Beneath Us and Genesis 2.0 — so get ready for time-lapse mushroom cinematography and mammoth tusks in the melting Siberian permafrost. Also on the bill: Made for Each Other: A History of the Bond Between Humans and Dogs, which'll obviously be adorable; Gunda, the most moving black-and-white, dialogue-free portrait of animals on a farm you'll ever see; Kiss the Ground, about tackling climate change through soil; and The Biggest Little Farm, following a couple on an eco-farm mission.