Saturday, December 2, 6:30 PM - Full capacity free screening, a brief discussion of the film to follow the screening
Presented in partnership with Alliance Française. There will be a discussion following the film.
Emmanuel Cappellin, Anne-Marie Sangla | Documentary | France | 2022 | 105m | French with English subtitles
Connected to the natural world at an early age, director Emmanuel Cappellin's worldview is shaken while travelling aboard a giant container ship to Asia: Trapped at sea with 18,000 containers, his mind spins as he calculates the millions of goods and billions of economic transactions that will take place across the planet just from this one vessel, a cornerstone of the global growth machine responsible for altering the world's climate.
This experience becomes a turning point in Cappellin's life. He ponders how climate and energy scientists manage to face similar visions on a daily basis. His documentary takes him across the planet to meet with five of the world's leading climate scientists and energy experts who have coined a new field of study: "collapsology". They share with him the truth and hope in their work and allow him to challenge everything he took for granted — from growth-based democracies to personal freedoms.
His journey brings him back to Saillans, a small Alpine mountain village he calls home. He reconsiders all his assumptions, goals, and hopes for the world: having a child, redefining questions of social justice, implementing participatory democracy, starting an energy transition. The first steps, perhaps, towards some kind of collective resilience.
Once You Know features Jean-Marc Jancovici, energy and climate expert, Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post-Carbon Institute, Saleemul Huq, IPCC adaptation expert and climate negotiation advisor, and Susanne Moser, IPCC climate resilience and communication expert.
"A radical, sobering and overdue confrontation." -Phil Hoad, The Guardian
"Part personal memoir and part big-picture look at today’s environmentally threatened world, it asks two of the most vital yet fraught questions of our time: What does it mean to truly understand the reality of humankind’s ecological predicament, and what should you do with that understanding once you possess it?" -Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Earth's Choice Award - Earth Day Film Festival
Audience Award - Another Way Film Festival
Documentary Impact Award - Tve Global Sustainability Film Awards
Best Documentary Award - Festival international du film d'éducation d'Evreux
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