Uomo e Terra – Un solo destino

La perdita della sorella a causa del cancro ha reso Jennifer Abbott (regista premiata Sundance) più sensibile alla profonda gravità del collasso climatico, rendendosi conto degli intimi paralleli tra le due esperienze del lutto, personale e planetario. Storie dal fronte del cambiamento climatico si fondono così con i ricordi dell’infanzia della regista nella Georgian Bay, in Ontario. Cosa hanno in comune queste vicende? La risposta, sorprendentemente, è tutto.

ENGLISH:

When Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown. Abbott’s new documentary The Magnitude of All Things draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Stories from the frontlines of climate change merge with recollections from the filmmaker’s childhood on Ontario’s Georgian Bay. What do these stories have in common? The answer, surprisingly, is everything.

This cinematic journey by the Sundance award-winning director (The Corporation) takes us around the world to witness a planet in crisis: from Australia’s catastrophic fires and dying Great Barrier Reef, to the island nation of Kiribati, drowned by rising sea levels. In Nunatsiavut, melting ice permanently alters the landscape, while in the Amazon rainforest, Indigenous people fight a desperate battle against oil and mining extraction.

Original title: Uomo e Terra - Un solo destino
International title: The Magnitude of All Things
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Language: English
Director: Jennifer Abbott
Production company: Flying Eye Productions, Cedar Island Films, The National Film Board of Canada