Our Shared Futures: Climate & Migration Community Film Festival

Curated by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with Earth Refuge, CMJ (Climate & Migrant Justice Organising Group), and City of Sanctuary. | Presented by The Rising Sun and Real Time Video.

To coincide with COP30 and Climate & Migrant Justice Day (22 Nov), this free, community-powered film festival shares powerful stories at the intersection of climate and migration.

The festival features films which explore themes of climate crisis, displacement, colonialism, conflict, resilience, and hope – creating accessible entry points into urgent conversations that affect us all. As part of the Festival the Rising Sun will be showing:

Thank You For The Rain (2017) Julia Dahr

Powerful documentary following Kisilu Musya, a Kenyan farmer who begins filming his daily life to show the impacts of climate change on his community. Over five years, his story evolves from a local struggle to global activism as he journeys to the UN climate talks in Paris. The film captures the personal toll of changing weather patterns while exposing the deep inequalities that shape who is heard (and who is not) in global climate debates.

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Speak To Power.

A short film produced by Rank & File Theatre in partnership with Refugee Support Group about Climate Change and Migration which was shared ahead of Cop 26 and directed to Alok Sharma at the time... written by Elizabeth Achola, Thabo Makuyana and Jude Haste. Performed by Elizabeth Achola and filmed / edited by Alex Genn Bash.