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Green Sun and Red Alert: When Hollywood Sounded the Alarm (Youth Selection)
Olympia Cinema 5 rue d'Antibes, CannesDocumentary by Jean-Christophe Klotz France, 2022 In 1973, Richard Fleischer's "Green Sun" described a suffocating and apocalyptic world set in... 2022. Half a century later, what have we retained from the warning cry launched by this film that has become a cult? An America plunged into a permanent heat wave, where nature has disappeared. Mostly homeless, its inhabitants only receive strange plankton-based cookies for food, distributed by a tentacular company... In 1973, "Green Sun" by Richard Fleischer, starring Charlton Heston, was the first science-fiction film to evoke not an exogenous [...]
Short films by students of the Lycée Bristol in Cannes
Olympia Cinema 5 rue d'Antibes, CannesThe students of the cinema section of the Lycée Bristol in Cannes propose short films on ecological and social themes in the manner of Agnès Varda.
Aya (Sélection Internationale)
Olympia Cinema 5 rue d'Antibes, CannesLahou, Ivory Coast. Aya grew up carefree with her mother. Intimately linked to her island, the young girl sees her bearings collapse when she learns that her paradise is doomed to disappear under the waters. As the waves threaten her home, Aya makes a decision: Lahou is her island; she will not leave it. An initiatory path is then offered to her, a path towards her identity, a path towards herself.
Death Otherwise (Local Corner)
Olympia Cinema 5 rue d'Antibes, CannesWhat is Humusation? It is a controlled process of transformation of human bodies by humus organisms (micro-organisms present only in the first cm of the soil) in a compost composed of wood shavings, which transforms, in 12 months, the mortal remains into healthy and fertile Humus.
Pebbles in the Shoe (Local Corner)
Olympia Cinema 5 rue d'Antibes, CannesAt the gates of the Vercors, the inhabitants of Saint-Nazaire-en-Royans discovered that a massive rock quarry wanted to set up on the small mountain overlooking their village, Mount Vanille. Stunned by the gigantic nature of the project and feeling betrayed by the elected officials, the village mobilized.
Chocotopie (Youth Selection)
Olympia Cinema 5 rue d'Antibes, CannesDive into the heart of the cocoa fields of the Dominican Republic. Altair, a small Dominican farmer, and the Breton sailors who transport her cocoa by sail, share their struggles and visions of change. From the field to the Breton chocolate factory, through the eyes of these inspiring personalities, this journey of a bean reveals the stakes of an entire system, and the initiatives ready to revolutionize it. Agriculture, environmental disruption, sense of place, shipping.
Hatun Phaqcha, Tierra Sana (Sélection Internationale)
Olympia Cinema 5 rue d'Antibes, CannesA country rich in history, culture and biodiversity, Peru is home to the cultivation of several types of "superfoods" recognized internationally for their benefits. With Hatun Phaqcha, Tierra Sana, Delia Ackerman shows the importance of preserving these foods, while exploring the issue of the vulnerability of regions to the demands of a market that promotes monoculture, under the looming threat of climate change.
