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Cineco Film Festival at Edinbugh University
Cineco is a free Environmental Film Festival in and around the University of Edinburgh, running from September to November 2010.
Beyond the Tipping Point
7th October, 5.30pm
Edinburgh University, AppletonTower, Lecture theatre 1
A film about climate change and the ways we respond to it. Through the voices of 25 people from a variety of backgrounds and nationalities, it addresses a fundamental challenge for our time: how the future is imagined, and how this imagination shapes our actions in the present.
This is not another film about the science or the ‘facts’ of global warming. It is an exploration of a deeper set of questions. How do we make sense of the idea that we may have a limited time frame for effective action? Is there ever a point after which all action comes too late? Does apocalyptic imagination lead to hope, or despair?
Just Do It!
8th October, 6pm
Roxy Art Theatre, Edinburgh,
Just Do it is an exciting new feature documentary film that follows the mischievous and risky world of UK climate activists. The story follows Climate Camp, Plane Stupid and Climate Rush through 2009 as they take on the combined forces of global capitalism, run away climate change and those pesky metropolitan police.
Alatiplano
11th Oct 6pm
Roxy Art Theatre, Edinburgh
Altiplano is a lyrical and probing film about our divided but inextricably linked world. War photographer Grace, devastated by a violent incident in Iraq, renounces her profession. Her Belgian husband, Max, is a cataract surgeon working at an eye clinic in the high Andes of Peru. Nearby, the villagers of Turubamba succumb to illnesses caused by a mercury spill from a local mine. Saturnina, a young woman in Turubamba, loses her fiancé to the contamination. The villagers turn their rage on the foreign doctors, and in the ensuing riot Max is killed. Saturnina takes drastic measures to protest against the endless violations towards her people and their land. Grace sets out on a journey of mourning to the place of Max’s death.
The screening will be followed by a weblink Q&A session with director Jessica Woodworth and Friends of the Earth Scotland.
Climate Change at the Movies
28th October 7pm
Martin Hall, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh
A panel debate and discussion about the Millennium Development Goal of Ecological Sustainability. In collaboration with the Centre for Theology and Public Issues
Mean Sea Level
5th November 6pm
Roxy Art House
Mean Sea Level looks at the impact of climate change on the inhabitants of Ghoramara and Sagar Islands in the Sunderbans Delta.
As the sea level rises and takes with it homes and livelihoods in the delta, the villagers of Sagar are paying a hefty price for a problem that they did not create. Meanwhile, middle class India and the political elite are becoming aware of the problem of global warming, but prefer to look the other way.
Director Pradip Saha will be joining us live from Delhi for a weblink Q&A session after the screenings.
Our Daily Bread
12th November, 6.00pm
Roxy Art House
Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming!
To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without
commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe: monumental
spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds – a cool, industrial
environment which leaves little space for individualism. People, animals,
crops and machines play a supporting role in the logistics of this system
which provides our society’s standard of living.
Our Daily Bread is a wide-screen tableau of a feast which isn’t always easy
to digest – and in which we all take part. A pure, meticulous and high-end
film experience that enables the audience to form their own ideas.
Dive! Living Off American’s Waste
26th November, 6.00pm
Roxy Art House
Living off America’s Waste. Inspired by a curiosity about our careless habit of sending food straight to landfills, the multi award-winning documentary DIVE! follows filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and friends as they dumpster dive in
the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of Los Angeles? supermarkets. In the process, they salvage thousands of dollars worth of good, edible food? resulting in an inspiring documentary that is equal parts entertainment,
guerilla journalism and call to action. Stick around afterwards for a Q&A session with Mark Boyle, the man who gave up money and a workshop on skills-swaps and waste innovation!
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