Visions for a better world
“We have films about the solar revolution, innovation, activist grandmas, global tax loopholes, climate change, urban agriculture, breakdancing seniors and crowdfunding revolutionaries.”
Featuring more than 20 virtual sessions available online nationwide, the Transitions Film Festival kicks off on February 18, offering an enthralling program of documentaries.
The world-changing films analyse existential challenges, share creative innovations, and explore the stories of heroic pioneers. The common theme is that all films portray visions for a better world.
Festival director Daniel Simons explained that the point of the film festival is to showcase solutions to society’s greatest challenges, connecting big ideas to local thought leaders and changemakers.
“It’s an amazing program this year, bigger and broader than we have ever had before,” he wrote on LinkedIn.
“We have films about the solar revolution, innovation, activist grandmas, global tax loopholes, climate change, urban agriculture, breakdancing seniors and crowdfunding revolutionaries.”
One film that may be particularly interesting to AJN audiences is Ecocide, a narrative legal drama set in the fictional world of 2034 that sees Germany’s Angela Merkel put on trial for a failure to act on climate change.
Another film of note is Dear Future Children, which is described as a “film about the next generation, made by the next generation” looking at those who are at the heart of the seismic political shift.
There’s also Dream On, which helps audiences imagine how to bring new worlds into reality and Solutions, which shares a list of potential solutions to some of society’s most complex and urgent challenges. How? By sending some of the world’s leading scientists, academics and thinkers to the New Mexico desert for 10 days.
It is an era of accelerating change and unprecedented disruption, and Transitions Film Festival shares the films that may inspire society to fight for the future everyone needs and wants.
Transitions Film Festival streams online February 18 – March 13 and has select screenings in Melbourne. For more: transitionsfilmfestival.com
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