Building on powerful screenings in the US, India, Australia and New Zealand, this ‘mini festival’ comes to our community!
Drama, documentary, comedy, and award-winning animation films from different continents 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.
FILM LIST:
THE OPERATOR
Matt Riley, Director
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.
THE SPRAYER
Farnoosh Abedi, Director
Iran (8:45) Animation
Is this a vision of where authoritarians and continued nature exploitation will bring us? Or is it a satire of where they already have? Heroes have a role in either case.
SACRIFICED
David Sanchez, Director
Canada (12:43) Documentary
Flavie is a daring and opinionated 15-year-old practicing civil disobedience in a democracy. Her parents want to support her activism but fear the legal fallout.
OLA KA HONUA
Jilli Rose, Director
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. A gorgeous animation and moving musical score illustrating what’s possible when we come together for the common good.
THE FARM UNDER THE CITY
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.
CITY REINDEER
Kaisu Koski, Director
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.
