This week, an inspiring new documentary featuring activists from the Young Friends of the Earth Europe network launches online.
‘Movement’, a film by two Dutch filmmakers, tells the stories of the different paths taken by four activists from Croatia, Germany, the UK and Norway. In their sights? Oil, coal, corporations and governments obstructing the UN climate process, and threats to nature across Europe.
Click here to register for the online premiere on Thursday June 18 at 19.00 CET
Movement trailer
In Norway, Ina is mobilising Norwegian youth and putting pressure on the Norwegian government’s plans to drill for oil around the pristine Lofoten islands in the north of the country, which would threaten the global climate and local traditional fisheries.
Meanwhile in Germany, 17 year-old Nathan is cycling across the country to his first activist climate camp in Mannheim, where RWE – one of Germany’s biggest energy companies operates the biggest open-cast coal mine in Europe.
Luka, then active with Young Friends of the Earth Croatia, is on his way around Europe to document individuals taking action to protect the nature they love. The film finds him in Bulgaria, where he’s following Zhelyazko Mechkov, a Za Zemiata/Friends of the Earth Bulgaria activist engaged in an annual summer expedition to clean up decades of accumulated rubbish in the country’s mountainous national parks.
In Warsaw, Lucy from the UK is at the 2013 UN climate talks. She’s frustrated with the interference and sponsorship from fossil fuel companies, the lack of ambition of governments in the developed world, and how civil society organisations, youth and governments in the global South are sidelined.
After reaching its crowdfunding goal last December, the film is heading off to festivals over the summer, with plans to have it available to rent online afterwards.
Meanwhile, if you’d like to organise a screening in your country, get in touch with Job van den Assem