POINT OF CHANGE + FARM TO SEA

Pathé Madeleine, Marseille

Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 20:30

Pathé Madeleine, Marseille

Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 20:30

Around The Waves presents the documentary on the legendary Nias wave:

POINT OF CHANGE

Stumbling across the perfect wave, two surfers start a chain reaction of unintended consequences.

Perfection comes at a price …

In opening, a screening of the short film FARM TO SEA, directed by musician Todd Hanningan,

the film

POINT OF CHANGE

2024 - 1h24

Trailer : https://youtu.be/kYbIHHP0XB4

VOSTFR

Directed by Rebecca Coley

Produced by EMG, Philip Burgin, Martin McCabe, Mick Southworth and Rebecca Coley

Original score: Paul Oakenfold and Stephen Warbeck

An island community dramatically changed forever by the discovery of the perfect wave in the 1970’s, POINT OF CHANGE chronicles the first surfers to ‘discover' this Point at Nias Island, Indonesia, and the unintended dramatic consequences that followed: devastating social and ecological repercussions for the people, and place.

Point of Change is a compelling and dramatic documentary feature film told through a unique blend of previously unseen super 8 archive, contemporary interview and beautiful animation, with an original score composed by academy-award winning composer Stephen Warbeck and featuring exclusive new music tracks by Paul Oakenfold and local musicians, to reveal an all too resonant picture of a society changed inexorably by powerful economic & environmental forces outside of their control.

In this story the new colonials are the surfers. innocent travelling hippies with no idea of the culture they are walking into.

They find their holy grail but the dark side is malaria, culture clashes and the case of a missing girl from their travelling group.

Awards:

-Women in Surf Film Award at the Portuguese Surf Film Festival in 2023

-Audience Award at the Jersey Surf Film Festival in 2023

-Best Surf Film’ at the Byron Bay International Film Festival in 2023

-Best British Film’ and “Best Documentary Film” at the London Surf Film Festival in 2023

-BEST FILM AWARD at the BILBAO SURF FILM FESTIVAL in 2024

-"Committee Choice Award" at the Bali International Film Festival (Balinale) in 2024

opening

FARM TO SEA

2025 - USA

8 minutes - VOSTFR

Directed by Todd Hannigan

Farm to Sea distills a regenerative organic farmer’s lifework into the timeless elements of soil, water, and good old elbow grease.

Set in the Ventura River watershed, it follows the path of water—from sea to cloud to mountain to farm to sea again—and shows how agricultural practices need not disrupt this vital cycle.

When he was young and searching, surfing introduced Steve Sprinkel to the interconnectedness of his home watershed, how the water he played in also sustained him. This realization took him further upstream, where the ocean’s water falls as rain that nourishes soil. He didn’t have to look far to see how industrial agricultural processes contaminate the soil and water that inevitably find their way back to the sea. Inspired by age-old Indigenous farming techniques and those of the budding organic movement, he started a small farm in the Ojai Valley and opened a co-op restaurant there, The Farmer and the Cook.

Today, his operation serves more than healthy, delicious food to his community—it also proves that farming can and should regenerate soil and put back more than it takes.

In this directorial debut, songwriter Todd Hannigan weaves stunning visuals with straightforward storytelling to explore human relationships with natural systems that are as old as time. The result is a lyrical ode to the lands and waters he calls home, and to the possibilities of coexistence on our blue planet.