The Climate & Migration Community Film Festival
28th November, 11:00 - 16:00
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Friends Meeting House
Organised by : Transition Chichester
The Climate & Migration Community Film Festival 2025
We are celebrating The Climate & Migration Community Film Festival 2025 in the big room of The Friends Meeting House - bringing together stories of climate, displacement, resilience, and hope. Over the day, we will show the five Festival Films:
1. 11.30 > 11.50. Until The Last Drop (2020), 20mins. In an occupied land where water is scarce, two farmers share the same soil but live unequal realities. In Area C of the West Bank, Abu and Eli embody the divide between Palestinian and Israeli farmers, struggling and prospering in one of the world's most contested places.
2. 12.00 > 12.30. And Still, It Remains (2023), 28mins. In Southern Algerias Sahara, French nuclear toxicity lingers. In Mertoutek, the Escamaran community lives shaped but not defined by this past. Directors Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah return to the Hoggar Mountains, tracing resilience amid forgotten colonial scars.
3. 1.15 > 2.45. Utama (2022), 1hr 27mins. Bolivian grandparents face a drought that endangers tradition. Families grieve as climate change forces choices, revealing how young and old respond to loss and the need to move.
4. 3.00 > 3.05. Dead As A Dodo (2022), 5mins. An experimental short reimagines the dodos extinction through sound and image, asking who tells such stories and why. It exposes the colonial roots of dominance over nature, inspired by A Theory of Birds by PalestinianAmerican poet Zaina Alsous.
5. 3.15 > 4.45. Thank You For The Rain (2017), 1hr 27mins. Eight years ago, Kenyan farmer Kisilu Musya began filming his family, village, and climates toll. Floods, droughts, storms - even his home destroyed - push him to lead a farmers movement demanding action. His struggle carries him from rural Kenya to Oslo and the halls of COP21 in Paris.
Please note: these times are a rough outline and may be adapted as needed.
It will be comforting to watch with others - followed by informal discussions.
We will break for a 'bring & share if you want' picnic at 12.30 ish. You are welcome to drop in and out with your cuppa, and lunch.
(The festival is by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Earth Refuge, Climate & Migrant Justice Organising Group, and City of Sanctuary UK.)
In the foyer, we will have a table selling Palestinian goods.
There will be the usual Cuppa, Chat & Cake for those not watching the films.