Arts and Entertainment
February 6, 2024
From: Climate Future Film FestivalSchedule:
Climate Future Film Festival- Part 1 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Climate Future Film Festival- Part 2 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
While climate change is front-page news, in our own back pages many are grieving. Or mutely frightened. Or numb. Or outraged. Or isolated and feeling hopeless. Others may be oddly celebrating a future of climate disorder.
This short-film festival explores the full range of human and artistic response to what may be coming next. Dramatic, comic, hopeful, despairing, absurdist, satirical, experimental, documentary, animated: your heart and vision have a home at the Climate Future Film Festival.
The first five of the ten short films will be shown during Part 1 on Tuesday, February 20, with the remainder to be shown during Part 2 on Tuesday, February 27. See the linked festival program for the order of the films. Both sessions will be accompanied by a brief exercise to address anxiety about climate change and followed by a conversation about your reactions to the films.
There will be a follow-up workshop, “From Climate Fear to Climate Action,” on Tuesday, March 5 at 5:30 pm with Kate Schapira, author of Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Booth.
The Climate Future Film Festival is created by Merlyn Climate Grants, which supports emerging climate leaders 13 to 30 in New England and New York. Donors and volunteers come from across the US. You can download the Festival program and climate action volunteer opportunities.
Ten Films from 4 Continents in 2 Hours Explore the Artistic & Human Response to Climate Change.
Feeling the Apocalypse
Director, Chen Sing Yap
Canada (7:02) Animation
An experienced psychotherapist wrestling with climate grief explores what it means to live in a dying world.
The Mud on Their Hands
Director, Jason Whalen
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.
I Was Just a Child
Director,Breech Asher Harani
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.
The Operator
Director,Matt Riley
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.
Calamity TV
Director,Ryan Vemmer
Rhode Island, Usa (1:07) Comedy
How would you pitch a script to Hollywood about the coming end of civilization?
The Sprayer
Director,Farnoosh Abedi
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.
I Want You to Panic!
Director,Moritz HoffmanGermany (9:20) Comedy
A bomb lands in a museum without exploding. The ambitious museum director sees an opportunity. The museum guard sees something else.
Sacrificed
Director,David Sanchez
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.
Ola Ka Honua
Director, Jilli RoseAustralia (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.
Baby Dolphins
Director, Kevin Delobelle
France (3:54) Narrative
An ardent activist and an unmoved executive come face to face with one another and for one of them with onese