drought

The Great Green Wall

The Great Green Wall

Jared P. Scott/2019/92 min/Climate Change, Health, Social Justice, People & Cultures

Sunday, April 25, 6 p.m. CDT
Double Fest, Double Feature!

FILM DESCRIPTION: If you missed this film during our 2021 Season, here's another chance presented by Sixth Festival, as part of our Sunday Double Feature with them. Take an epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall—an ambitious vision to grow an 8,000km "Wall" of trees stretching across the entire width of the continent to restore land and provide a future for millions of people. Traversing Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger and Ethiopia, Malian musician and activist, Inna Modja follows the burgeoning Great Green Wall through Africa’s Sahel region—one of the most vulnerable places on earth (temperatures are rising 1.5 times faster than the global average)—laying bare the acute consequences of accelerating climate change the Wall aims to counteract: drought, resource scarcity, radicalization, conflict and migration. By Executive Producer Fernando Meirelles (Academy Award and Golden Globe Nominated Director of City of God and the Constant Gardener).