FILMS FOR THE PLANET

Climate and environmental issues may be getting more attention these days, but they aren’t new. How has cinema seen our relationship with the environment?

This series revisits major fictional films that changed the way we see the world. They explore interconnected themes with great ambition, philosophical depth, and poetry: biodiversity, climate change, consumerism, eco-anxiety.

There’s nothing more powerful than film to move, frighten and delight us, to inspire us to think about our future – and to spur us into action.

Presented by Urbania.

  • THE LAST WAVE, Peter Weir (1977)
  • SILENT RUNNING, Douglas Trumbull (1972)
  • SOYLENT GREEN, Richard Fleischer (1973)
  • WIND ACROSS THE EVERGLADES, Nicholas Ray (1958)
  • TAKE SHELTER, Jeff Nichols (2011)
  • LONG WEEKEND, Colin Eggleston (1978)
  • POM POKO, Isao Takahata (1994)
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FILMS FOR THE PLANET

Climate and environmental issues may be getting more attention these days, but they aren’t new. How has cinema seen our relationship with the environment?

This series revisits major fictional films that changed the way we see the world. They explore interconnected themes with great ambition, philosophical depth, and poetry: biodiversity, climate change, consumerism, eco-anxiety.

There’s nothing more powerful than film to move, frighten and delight us, to inspire us to think about our future – and to spur us into action.

Presented by Urbania.

  • THE LAST WAVE, Peter Weir (1977)
  • SILENT RUNNING, Douglas Trumbull (1972)
  • SOYLENT GREEN, Richard Fleischer (1973)
  • WIND ACROSS THE EVERGLADES, Nicholas Ray (1958)
  • TAKE SHELTER, Jeff Nichols (2011)
  • LONG WEEKEND, Colin Eggleston (1978)
  • POM POKO, Isao Takahata (1994)

 


EVENTS

October 15, 6pm - Take Shelter

Luc Ferrandez will present the film, and it will be Folowed by a discussion about eco-anxiety with Laure Waridel.

 

October 11, 7pm - Silent Running

Folowed by a discussion about the importance of climate activism with people from Extinction Rebellion (Elza Kephart) and also La Planète s’invite à l’université (Marouane Joundi & Léa Ilardo).

 

October 16, 6:45pm - Soylent Green

Folowed by a discussion about the future of food, veganism and the causes of drawing on natural resources like overpopulation with Bernard Lavallée (Nutritionniste urbain) & Caroline Huard (Loounie, vegan recipes creator).

OTHERS FILMS ABOUT ENVIRONMENT

Many features are also tinted by the environmental question in the rest of the line up.

  • VAILLANCOURT: REGARDE SI C’EST BEAU, John Blouin
  • LES FLEURS OUBLIÉES, André Forcier
  • SYSTÈME K, Renaud Barret
  • L’ANGE DU NORD, Jean-Michel Roux
  • BACURAU, Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles
  • CHILDREN OF THE SEA, Ayumu Watanabe

 

Do you want to know what the Festival is doing to be ecofriendly ?

Take a look at our page Allez faire un tour sur notre page ETHICS.

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