Environmental film festival ‘Ċine’Ambjent’ returns for second edition

The eNGO Friends of the Earth Malta (FoEM) is organising the second edition of its environmental film festival, Ċine’Ambjent, on February 4 and 5 at the Valletta Design Cluster.

The non-profit film festival provides local communities with a wide range of new and thought-provoking environmental films over a two-day programme.

The documentaries show how climate activists and indigenous communities from different countries in the global south are leading their fight against extreme weather events due to climate change, corporate exploitation of natural resources or to protect their water from diversion and contamination. In doing so, they fight for their survival and right to exist.

The festival will kick off on February 4 with the screening of Thank You for the Rain (Kenya) which covers five years of the life of Kisilu Musya, a Kenyan farmer who has made his way from a father to a climate activist on the global stage. After the film, Stefano Moncada will engage in a discussion on the topic of climate-induced migration.

A still from Uma: A Water Crisis in Bolivia.

The second screening will be Uma: A Water Crisis in Bolivia which combines the confrontation between the Andean...