DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.

D.C. Environmental Film Festival

Every year the Environmental Film Festival, already by far the biggest film festival to hit D.C., seems to get even bigger. They’ve added another 15 films to their tally from last year, bringing the total for this year to a staggering 155, spread out over 56 venues. If there’s a room in town with a projector and a screen, it’s a safe bet they’ll have a DCEFF film at some point over the next 10 days.

The first festival events actually got underway over a week ago, with a pre-festival daytime screening of What’s on Your Plate to introduce one of this year’s big themes, a series of food and agriculture-related films. The official start of the festival was two days ago, with a number of screenings, plus a lecture delivered by environmentalist Peter Mathiessen, who is the subject of a documentary profile that will screen Saturday afternoon at the National Portrait Gallery.

Of potential interest to locally-focused audiences will be Nora!, a profile of local restaurateur Nora Pouillon, who’s eponymous restaurant was the first certified organic eatery in the country, and The Green House, a documentary on the construction of the area’s first carbon-neutral house, in McLean. The rest of the festival is filled with new films and older films, documentary and narrative features, a number of programs for children, plenty of local premieres, and award-winning films from other festivals.

View the welcome video, with Philippe Cousteau, on the festival home page.
Now playing at 56 venues around town, through March 28. See the full schedule for details.