Go!Change is a movie festival aiming to inspire us all to become actors of change and strive for an environmentally and socially sustainable society! Through movies and discussions we travel around the world discovering creative initiatives, transition movements and the driving forces behind change. Tickets can be booked a week in advance on a first come first serve basis. Schedule:
Tuesday, 5th
May:
18:00 Dirt!
20:00 Invisible (R)Evolutions
21:30 Discussion
Wednesday, 6th of May:
18:00 No Impact Man
20:00 Voices of Transition + Discussion with Nils Aguilar
This festival is sponsored by the City of Gothenburg and Hagabion. Description of the movies:
DIRT! By Bill Benenson, Gene Rosow, Eleonore Dailly, 83 min, English, 2009
trailer:http://www.dirtthemovie.org/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8_dN5YWnyc
Dirt! is a powerful documentary diving straight into the intimate relationship between humans and dirt. Dirt is what everything on earth is made of and hence the source of life. For thousands of years, humans recognised this bond, but this connection has been lost and we now consider dirt as dead matter that we can simply dispose of. Dramatic soil erosion, desertification, global warming and some of the consequences. The ecological impact of this is alarming as are the social and economical crises accompanying it. does not only show our interdependence with our environment, but is more importantly a call for action. "Get your hands dirty!"
Nominated for Grand Jury Prize Sundance Film Festival 2009
L’URGENCE DE RALENTIR / INVISIBLE (R)EVOLUTIONS
By Philippe Borrel, 85 min, English version, 2014
trailer:http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/048763-000/l-urgence-de-ralentir
http://vimeo.com/104588313
Invisible (R)evolutions is a French documentary showing how the acceleration of technology and economy has disconnected man from nature, leading our world straight to economical, social and ecological catastrophes. The need for the human to re appropriate time and give it a new meaning is urgent. Different examples of alternative movements such as food cooperatives in the USA, local currencies in France and England and educating people to install solar panels in India are shown. Together with the reflections of politicians, philosophers, economists and scientists, a road to a different future is opened! VOICES OF TRANSITION
By Nils Aguilar, 65 min, English version, 2012
trailer:http://voicesoftransition.org/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvY9oiC7HGY
Voices of Transition is an inspiring documentary following different transition movements, enthusiastically inviting us to reconsider our societies. Taking us from France to Cuba with a halt in England and its transition towns, it introduces us to agroforestry, urban gardening and shows how the island of Cuba, forced to adapt to a premature peak oil, has become greatly self-sufficient. Could climate change, food insecurity and peak oil serve in fact as an opportunity to drastically change our way of living for the better? This documentary is a refreshing must-see! The Colorado International Film Festival 2014: Best Environmental Film; Oregon International Film Awards 2014: Winner First Time Director; Ecological Success Stories Ekotopfilm-Festival 2012: Main Prize
NO IMPACT MAN
By Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein, 93 min, English, 2009
trailer:http://noimpactproject.org/movie/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Ctt7FGFBo
No impact man is an American documentary in which Colin Beavan and his family try to live without an environmental impact for a year in NYC. No elevator, no TV, no car, no disposable bags, even no electricity and of course worms in the kitchen for composting. Following them in their everyday life while they gradually adapt their new way of living, this documentary shows with humour the difficulties they face and their way of finding solutions, as well as the reaction of others. For those who are curious about what one can do as an individual, from simple to more extreme initiatives!
