Artist and filmmaker Anne de Carbuccia directs Choose Earth, a five-episode documentary series that treats the present moment as a subject worth recording, following the Earth Protectors who defend the planet and the cultures and traditions at risk of being lost.
What is Choose Earth about?
Choose Earth sets out with an anthropological instinct: to document this era the way a future observer might want it documented, in five distinct episodes rather than one continuous narrative. Anne de Carbuccia, filming around the world across a decade, builds the series around the Earth Protectors she meets, turning her camera toward the communities, landscapes, and inherited practices that a changing planet puts under pressure. Running roughly an hour per episode, the series treats each installment as its own self-contained study, giving space to the idea that societal change is something people move toward deliberately rather than something that simply happens to them. Rather than a single throughline of plot, Choose Earth is structured more like a series of extended observations, each one built to stand on its own while contributing to a larger portrait of a world in the middle of reconsidering itself.
About the cast
Choose Earth is directed by Anne de Carbuccia, whose background spans visual art and documentary filmmaking, both of which shape the series' observational style.
Context & significance
As a joint United States–Italy production released in 2025, Choose Earth sits within a broader documentary tradition of environmental and cultural-legacy filmmaking, the kind that treats testimony and everyday practice as primary sources rather than backdrop. Its five-episode, roughly hour-long structure gives each installment room to explore a distinct facet of that legacy rather than compressing everything into a single feature-length film.
Watching Choose Earth on Ktime
Choose Earth is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login. The platform's Farsi-language interface makes it straightforward for Persian-speaking viewers to browse documentary programming like this alongside the rest of the catalog.