Our Shared Futures: Climate & Migration Community Film Festival

Curated by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Earth Refuge, CMJ (Climate & Migrant Justice Organising Group), and City of Sanctuary. | Presented by The Rising Sun and Real Time Video.

To coincide with COP30 and Climate & Migrant Justice Day (22 Nov), this free, community-powered film festival shares powerful stories at the intersection of climate and migration.

The festival features films which explore themes of climate crisis, displacement, colonialism, conflict, resilience, and hope – creating accessible entry points into urgent conversations that affect us all. As part of the Festival the Rising Sun will be showing:

And Still, It Remains (2023) dir. Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah.12A (PG) Run time: 28 mins 

A powerful meditation on the afterlives of French nuclear toxicity in Southern Algeria, And still, it Remains offers a captivating and compelling picture of a community shaped but not circumscribed by its history. In Mertoutek, a village nestled in the Hoggar Mountains of Algeria’s Southern Sahara, we spend time with the Escamaran community as they narrate what it means to live with colonial toxicity. Directors Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah explore this forgotten history, returning to the site of the nuclear detonations to explore resilience in the face of enduring toxic colonialism.

Until The Last Drop (2020) dir. Tim Webster & Ernesto Cabellos. 20 mins

In an occupied land where water is a privilege, two farmers working the same land face increasingly unequal opportunities. Until the last drop is an intimate documentary from Reelmedia Film that shows the different realities faced by Palestinian and Israeli farmers in accessing water in the West Bank. Shot in Area C of the West Bank, we follow Abu and Eli as they struggle and prosper in one of the most contested lands in the world.