Climate Future Film Festival

Ten short films from 4 continents in 2 hours explore the artistic and human response to climate change...

Drama, documentary, dark comedy, and award-winning animation address our many possible climate futures, exposing a range of interior responses---optimism and cynicism, climate denial and climate grief, rage and heartbreak, resilience and resolve. These ten films give expression to what we're feeling and offer paths toward climate empowerment.

Films:

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 pointless and absurd.

The Operator
Matt Riley, Director
UNITED KINGDOM (20:00) NARRATIVE
Connecting long-distance intergalactic calls is usually boring. Signalled by the flashing red light, this call is different. It's life or death for those on the line. An allegory for the Anthropocene age.

The Mud on Their Hands
Jason Whalen, Director
USA (14:06) DOCUMENTARY
On the Mississippi Delta, rebuilding houses and churches in a town torn apart by Hurricane Katrina is half the battle. For this pastor, after a lifetime of community organizing, climate change and protecting a new generation from storm surge become his new calling. Will he succeed?

Sacrificed
David Sanchez, Director
CANADA (12:43) DOCUMENTARY
Flavie is a daring and opinionated 15-year-old practicing civil disobedience. Her parents want to engage and support her but fear the legal fallout from her actions.

I Want You to Panic
Moritz Hoffman, Director
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 entirely.

The Sprayer
Farnoosh Abedi, Director
IRAN (8:45) ANIMATION
A history of nature exploitation is not natural---it's political. Is this film a foreshadowing of where continued exploitation will bring us? Or is it a soul-crunching satire of where it already has? Heroes have a role in either case.

Feeling the Apocalypse
Chen Sing Yap, Director
CANADA (7:02) ANIMATION
A psychotherapist wrestling with climate grief explores what it means to live in a dying world.

I Was Just A Child
Breech Asher Harani, Dir.
PHILIPPINES (5:05) NARRATIVE
From a child's point of view and told with shadow puppets, 2012 Super Typhoon Bopha devastates towns and families in the Philippines.

Baby Dolphins
Kevin Delobelle, Director
FRANCE (3:54) NARRATIVE
An ardent activist and an unmoved executive come face to face with one another and---for at least one of them---with oneself.

Calamity TV
Ryan Vemmer, Director
USA (1:07) COMEDY
How would you pitch a script about the coming end of civilization to Hollywood?

Date: October 26-27, 2023

Time: 7pm

Cost: $10

Location: Jamestown Arts Center, 18 Valley Street, Jamestown, RI 02835

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