From the GAP to the Gobi desert. This quick and clever documentary links the demand for cashmere and cheap consumer goods to desertification in China and the growing environmental crisis. Zane Scheuerlein’s short doc, part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival’s first exclusively youth-produced program of shorts, tells the story of Sara, “a human mammal,” on her trip to the shop to buy a sweater. What are the implications of her purchase and what is the hidden cost of cashmere? Find out here.

The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival runs in NYC through June 26. The Human Rights Watch film series Youth Producing Change plays in New York June 20-21 and then heads to Boston, London, and San Francisco, and schools across North America.