Three documentaries explore how humans encounter, interpret and compete with the lives around us.

Beginning with the voices carried by a river and the unexpected appearance of octopuses along Britain’s coastline, the programme culminates in In the Path of Giants, an urgent feature documentary about elephants, farming communities and refugees struggling to coexist within an increasingly contested landscape.

DART — A journey along the River Dart on a summer's day, collecting voices of the human and more-than-human world.

Runtime: 5 minutes
Director: Emma J George

Bloomin’ Octopus! — Octopus Invasion! The film explores the sudden rise in octopus numbers in southwest England through a series of interconnected perspectives. Guided by an overarching narration, the camera moves fluidly between research spaces, fishing communities, kitchens and coastal waters, introducing each character as part of a wider story about adaptation and change. Blending documentary footage with stylised visual sequences, the film balances humour, energy and clarity while remaining grounded in newly released scientific research and community-led data. Rather than presenting simple answers, the story invites audiences to reconsider assumptions about marine life, industry and environmental change - showing how shifts beneath the surface ripple outward, affecting ecosystems and people alike.

Runtime: 5 minutes
Director: David Palfrey

In the Path of Giants (+ Q&A) — In Southern Bangladesh, hungry wild elephants trapped by the world’s largest refugee camp are rampaging over the land of local farmers. The result is a tense three-way stand-off between the refugees, local Bengalis and indigenous farmers, worsening already strained ethnic tensions. In 2017 Bangladesh opened its arms to nearly a million Rohingya who fled a violent regime of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. But the camp built to house them unknowingly blocked the last migratory corridor for the local elephant population. With no easy escape, a Rohingya refugee, an indigenous farmer, a Bengali forest ranger and the shrinking population of wild elephants find themselves trapped in an impossible fight for land, freedom and a place to call home.

Runtime: 89 Minutes
Director: Fayed Khan, Kirsty Wells