Watch Changing Climate
- NR
- 2007
- 1 hr 28 min
Year 2060. Climate predictions made at the beginning of the 21st century have turned out to be dramatically true : global warming of the Earth's atmosphere now has serious consequences on the every day lives of our grandchildren. Julia, in her forties, is fighting desperately to keep her family's vineyard alive, a sorry shadow of the domain it used to be. Years of hard work, trying to adapt the vines to these changes, have only delayed the unavoidable and heartbreaking choices she will be forced make. Lucas, her grandfather, born in a blessed time when France was still part of a «temperate» climate zone, is the only lasting memory of this land as it used to be, this land which she can't resign herself to abandon. Idri is also deeply rooted in the land of his ancestors, but the terrible drought that has been hitting his village in the south of the Sahara feels like it will never end. This determined African teenager can see no alternative but to leave his family and risk everything to make it to the North. With his older friend Faouzi, he will survive crossing the terrible Sahara desert, and reach the Mediterranean sea, only to be confronted to one last challenge. Indeed, all the African would-be immigrants who get here are regrouped in a huge «Selection Centre» that will decide, definitively, their admission to the European Eldorado... Or not. Ultimately, only Idri, though younger and weaker, will pass the test, and then make it all the way to Julia's domain. Wolgang is a young German biologist who jumps on the first opportunity he finds to travel to Canada and meet his youth idol, Grace Lajoie, a monument in the field of natural sciences. Disgusted by the disappearance of so much of the Earth's bio-diversity, and after years of fighting humanity's indifference, she now lives like an old recluse, cynical and bitter. Whereas Wolgang's hopeful enthusiasm has little effect on her, the sudden news of what could be the last