Climate Change

The Age of Consequences

The Age of Consequences

Jared P. Scott/2016/80 min/Climate Change

Saturday, March 4, 3 p.m. [North]
Institute of Cultural Affairs, Chicago

SOLD OUT!
Sunday, March 5, 6 p.m.
[Downtown]
Old St. Patrick's Church, Chicago

CHICAGO PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: The Age of Consequences investigates the impacts of climate change on increased resource scarcity, migration, and conflict through the lens of US national security and global stability.

Through unflinching case-study analysis, distinguished admirals, generals and military veterans take us beyond the headlines of the conflict in Syria, the social unrest of the Arab Spring, the rise of radicalized groups like ISIS.

Before the Flood

Before the Flood

Fisher Stevens/2016/93 min/Climate Change

Sunday, March 5, 12:30 p.m. [South][VR]
St. Benedict the African-East, Chicago

Saturday, March 11, 6:30 p.m. [Lake Cnty]
College of Lake County, Grayslake

ENGLISH SOUNDTRACK WITH SPANISH SUBTITLES: If you could know the truth about the threat of climate change — would you want to know? Before the Flood, presented by National Geographic, features Leonardo DiCaprio on a journey as a United Nations Messenger of Peace, traveling to five continents and the Arctic to witness climate change firsthand. He goes on expeditions with scientists uncovering the reality of climate change and meets with political leaders fighting against inaction.

The Good Mind

The Good Mind

Gwendolen Cates/2016/66 min/Social Justice

Saturday, March 4, 3 p.m. [South]
U. of Chicago, Ida Noyes Hall, Chicago

FILM DESCRIPTION: The Onondaga Nation in central New York State is the Central Fire of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy). This sovereign indigenous government, which follows the Great Law of Peace, inspired American democracy. The Onondagas advocate for the environment and share prophecies about climate change, while engaged in a battle with the state over ancestral lands stolen in defiance of a treaty with George Washington. 

How to Let Go of the World

How to Let Go of the World

Josh Fox/2016/125 min/Climate Change

Thursday, March 2, 7 p.m. [W Suburbs]
Dominican University, River Forest

FILM DESCRIPTION: In How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can't Change, Oscar Nominated director Josh Fox (GASLAND) continues in his deeply personal style, investigating climate change – the greatest threat our world has ever known. Traveling to 12 countries on 6 continents, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst consequences and asks, what is it that climate change can’t destroy? What is so deep within us that no calamity can take it away?

Planetary

Planetary

Guy Reid/2015/42min/Climate Change

SOLD OUT!
Sunday, March 5, 12:30 p.m. [Downtown]
Adler Planetarium, Chicago

FILM DESCRIPTION: Planetary is a provocative and breathtaking wakeup call – a cross continental, cinematic journey, that explores our cosmic origins and our future as a species. It is a poetic and humbling reminder that now is the time to shift our perspective. Planetary asks us to rethink who we really are, to reconsider our relationship with ourselves, each other and the world around us – to remember that we are PLANETARY.

Time to Choose

Time to Choose

Charles Ferguson/2015/94 min/Climate Change

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Sunday, March 5, 10 a.m.
[Dupage County]
Elmhurst College, Elmhurst

SOLD OUT!
Sunday, March 5, 1 p.m.
[Dupage County]
Elmhurst College, Elmhurst

FILM DESCRIPTION: Oscar-winning documentary director Charles Ferguson captures the urgency and innovation of this critical moment in his new film.

Time to Choose also features world-renowned innovators, and thought leaders who point the way to a better world. Dr. Jane Goodall connects climate to the places and animals we love. Governor Jerry Brown urges leaders to join the path to sustainability and Chinese wind and solar manufacturers discuss how they’ve built some of the largest renewable energy installations in the world. 

Tomorrow (Demain)

Tomorrow (Demain)

Melanie Laurent and Cyril Dion/2015/115 min/Environmental Advocacy

Sunday, March 5, 2 p.m. [South]
Windsor Park Lutheran Church, Chicago

CHICAGO PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: Showing solutions, telling a feel-good story… this may be the best way to solve the ecological, economical and social crises that our countries are going through. After a special briefing for the journal Nature announced the possible extinction of a part of mankind before the end of the 21st century, Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent, together with a team of four people, carried out an investigation in ten different countries to figure out what may lead to this disaster and above all how to avoid it.