The Climate Future Film Festival

Name: The Climate Future Film Festival
Start: 2025-04-22T19:00:00-0400
Location: The Cary

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

7pm

Ten films from four continents in two hours 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. America’s leading voice on climate, Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org and Third Act, is the Honorary Judge and launches the Festival in a videotaped introduction.

“These movies hit us viscerally . . . “ -Bill McKibben

The Mud on Their Hands

Jason Whalen, Director

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.

The Sprayer

Farnoosh Abedi, Director

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.

Sacrificed

David Sanchez, Director

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.

I Was Just a Child

Breech Asher Harani, Director

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

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.

Calamity TV

Ryan Vemmer, Director

RHODE ISLAND, USA (1:07) COMEDY

How would you pitch a script to Hollywood about the coming end of civilization?

I Want You to Panic!

Moritz Hoffmann, 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.

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.

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 one of them—with oneself.

Feeling the Apocalypse

Chen Sing Yap, Director

CANADA (7:02) ANIMATION

An experienced psychotherapist wrestling with climate grief explores what it means to live in a dying world.

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PLEASE NOTE

Because this is a free event and is likely to be sold out, tickets that have not been redeemed 10 minutes before showtime will no longer be valid. Remaining seats will be distributed to the wait-list on a first come first served basis.

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