Badlands: Hard Rock, Tough Lives
50 minutes, Directed by Mike Birkhead, Austria
In the heart of the American Midwest lies a landscape where lush grasslands have been torn open by towering pinnacles and spires of rock. It’s a place where summers of blistering heat follow winters of punishing cold and some of the country’s most charismatic animals – the black-tailed prairie dog, the burrowing owl, and the American bison – fight to survive.

Saiga Saga
8 minutes, Director by Kate Bradbury, The Netherlands
In the spring of 2015, a murder mystery unfolds on the vast grassland plains of Kazakhstan. Hundreds of thousands of saiga antelope, gathered together to calve, begin to drop dead without explanation. Across an area the size of the United Kingdom, and in the span of only a few days, their populations are nearly wiped out. So what caused 220,000 animals to die seemingly overnight? An investigation is launched to get to the bottom of this disastrous death on the steppe.