Ten films from four continents in two hours* give expression to what we're feeling—hope and cynicism, climate denial and climate grief, rage and heartbreak, resilience and resolve—and offer paths toward climate empowerment.
America's leading voice on climate, Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org and Third Act, is the Honorary Judge and launches the Festival in a videotaped introduction.
*Extended cut is 3 hours.
USA (14:06) DOCUMENTARY
On the Mississippi Delta, rebuilding a town torn apart by Hurricane Katrina is half the battle. For this pastor, climate change and protecting the next generation from storm surge become his new calling.
PHILIPPINES (5:05) NARRATIVE
From a child's point of view and told with shadow puppets, Super Typhoon Bopha devastates towns and families in the Philippines.
GERMANY (9:20) COMEDY
A bomb lands in a museum without exploding. The ambitious museum director sees an opportunity. The museum guard sees something else.
UNITED STATES (7:03) NARRATIVE/DANCE
Wearing a dress made of plastic trash she generated over 4 months, a dancer embodies both Earth and Woman reckoning with human impact on our teetering environment.
UNITED STATES (7:00) ANIMATION/EXPERIMENTAL
An unsettling vision of outcomes of free-market resource exploitation, an alternate history and hypothetical future. A desert’s ghost towns are retrofitted as data centers and digital mines, obliterating memory.
IRAN (8:45) ANIMATION
Is this a vision of where continued nature exploitation will bring us? Or is it a satire of where it already has? Heroes have a role in either case.
UNITED KINGDOM (20:00) NARRATIVE
Connecting long-distance intergalactic calls is usually boring. This call is different. It's life or death for those on the line. An allegory for the Anthropocene age.
AUSTRALIA (22:00) ANIMATION
Auwahi, a storied forest in Maui, is healed and restored in a generation with help from many who decided to try when trying seemed daunting.
CANADA (7:02) ANIMATION
An experienced psychotherapist wrestling with climate grief explores what it means to live in a dying world.
UNITED KINGDOM (9:27) DOCUMENTARY/EXPERIMENTAL
Filmed in the Arctic Circle, this visually stunning film considers the climate crisis a relationship problem. A series of interspecies "picnics" aims to begin restoring relationships with the nonhuman, starting with our relative, the Reindeer.
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TURKEY (5:00) NARRATIVE
Water sources dwindle and drought affects a little girl's imagination and her precocious drawings. From her mother, who prays and struggles to ration what water they have, the daughter keeps a secret alive and finds hope for herself.
CANADA (12:43) DOCUMENTARY
Flavie is a daring and opinionated 15-year-old practicing civil disobedience. Her parents want to support her activism but fear the legal fallout.
RHODE ISLAND, USA (1:07) COMEDY
How would you pitch a script to Hollywood about the coming end of civilization?
FRANCE (3:54) NARRATIVE
An ardent activist and an unmoved executive come face to face with one another and---for one of them---with oneself.
UNITED STATES (8:30) DOCUMENTARY
Gen Z'ers share their tools for emotional resilience and reveal how climate change is shaping their mental health and fundamental life choices.
Brett Chapman and Jordan Carroll, Directors
UNITED KINGDOM (10:00) DOCUMENTARY
His closed-loop system takes food waste from eateries and businesses and uses organic cycling methods, including worm farms and hot composting, to grow micro-herbs and vegetables beneath the industrial streets of Sheffield, England.
MERLYN CLIMATE GRANTS SUPPORTS EMERGING CLIMATE LEADERS 13 TO 30 in NY/NE
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