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The films will be shown on 9, 10, and 11 October in Moscow State University’s Library of Fundamental Science (ground floor).

About the films:

The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning (2009, English)

A new look at climate change based on work at Antarctic research stations.

“The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning” is a one-hour documentary about one of the regions most affected by climate change: Antarctica. It is a first-hand account of environmental challenges facing the frozen continent and the world as a whole.

This film explores new findings that environmental scientists have made this year, including the puzzling phenomenon of penguin suicide, the imminent rise of global sea levels due to melting glaciers, and diminishing populations of various marine species. The film contains unseen footage of new vegetation growing in the world’s largest desert.

“The Antarctica Challenge” is a rare and spectacular look into the Earth’s least explored continent from award-winning cinematographer Damir Chytil, CSC, one of the world’s foremost polar cameramen and pioneer of HD film photography.

Produced by: Polar Cap Productions (Canada)

The Age of Stupid (2009, English with Russian subtitles)

A video archivist from the future looks through video footage from 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.

Drama, documentary and animated film artist Pete Postlethwaite stars as a video archivist in the empty, barren world of 2055, asking “Why didn’t we stop climate change while we still could?” Video footage from 2008 enables him to venture into the past, examining the points of view of real people in different parts of the world prior to 2015, when the global climate catastrophe hit.

Produced by: Spanner Films (U.K.)

Art from a Changing Arctic (2006, English)

Director David Hinton’s 60-minute documentary is an account of the Cape Farewell expedition to the Canadian Arctic, in which internationally renowned artists and scientists participated. The film depicts how the artists dealt with the harsh Arctic conditions while observing the unmistakeable, visible impacts of climate change on the Arctic’s unique, fragile landscapes.

This film is directed by award-winning filmmaker David Hinton and producer David Buckland, featuring Heather Ackroyd, Dan Harvey, David Buckland, Siobhan Daview, Gautier Deblonde, Antony Gormley, Alex Hartley, Ian McEwan, Michele Noach, and Rachel Whiteread.

Produced by: Cape Farewell (U.K.)

The complete program of the 4th Science Festival in Moscow can be found here: http://www.festivalnauki.ru/

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