Climate Film Festival at the Museum of the Future
The Museum of the Future is hosting a Climate Film Festival during its upcoming Climate Future Week symposium which includes talks, workshops and a photography exhibition. The event is in collaboration with Fiker Institute and free to attend, and you can register here.
The film program includes features and documentaries addressing climate change, one of many events happening across the city leading to COP28, the United Nations Climate Change Conference that will take place in Dubai between November 30 - December 12, 2023.
Between Tuesday, September 26 and Saturday, 30, three short films will be playing on a loop all day on Level 2 of the museum.
Lowland Kids (Sandra Winther, 2019, 22 min)
As climate change erases the Louisiana coast, the last two teenagers on Isle de Jean Charles fight to stay on an island that's been their family home for generations.
Rockies Repeat (Caroline Hedin, 2021, 20 min)
A documentary that grapples with the cultural impacts of climate change in the Canadian Rockies and the importance of sustaining traditions on ancestral lands. The film follows a team of Indigenous and settler artists as they trek into the mountains to reinterpret the work of early Banff painter, Catharine Robb Whyte to see familiar places from new perspectives a century later.
M'Hamid Oasis Morocco (Monika Koeck, 2019, 23 min)
The film documents the restoration and recording work undertaken by an international team of researchers and volunteers in the most remote oasis of the Draa Valley, at the edge of the Sahara Desert.
The following films will be shown in the museum’s Auditorium. Register here.
Thursday, September 28 at 8.00pm
Costa Brava, Lebanon (Monia Akl, 2021, Lebanon, 106 min, Arabic with English subtitles)
Costa Brava, Lebanon captures the joys and frustrations of a close-knit family with an intimacy that feels startlingly natural, and sets them against a sharply drawn backdrop of environmental crisis. In the not-so-distant future, the free-spirited Badri family have escaped the toxic pollution and social unrest of Beirut by seeking refuge in an idyllic mountain home.
Without warning, the government starts to build a garbage landfill right outside their fence, intruding on their domestic utopia and bringing the trash and corruption of a whole country to their doorstep. As the landfill rises, so does tension in the household, revealing a long-simmering division between those family members who wish to defend or abandon the mountain oasis they have built.
Friday, September 29 at 8.00pm
Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer, 1973, USA, 97 min, English)
The year is 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society's leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green - an artificial nourishment sold by a major corporation that much of the population are completely dependent on.
When tough homicide detective Frank Thorn is sent to investigate the murder of a member of New York's wealthy elite, he stumbles upon a secret about the Soylent Corporation that threatens to rock the already frail society around him.
Saturday, September 30 at 8.00pm
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2013, USA, 93 min, English)
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.