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CLIMATE ART - FROM PROTEST TO UTOPIA

CLIMATE ART sheds light on the role of contemporary art in the greatest challenge of our time: the climate crisis. Journalist Leonie Sontheimer takes us on a journey to influential artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Sebastião Salgado and Agnes Denes. Their works inspire, provoke and open up new perspectives on the subject - from Europe to the Global South. However, the film not only examines the art itself, but also its creators and existing structures. How do artists deal with their own CO2 footprint? How sustainable is a global art business that relies on transportation, travel and prestigious events? Can art fairs such as Art Basel or the Venice Biennale really be role models, or do they contradict the messages of their artists? With impressive depth and diversity, the film shows how artists around the world are transforming their powerlessness in the face of the climate crisis into creative resistance and activism. The result is a stirring portrait of an art scene balancing between aspiration and reality - and a call for us all to become an active part of the change.

The film also includes one of the last interviews with Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado who passed on May 23, 2025.

FESTIVALS

Blue Planet Future Festival, South Korea (2025)
Festival Internazionale del Documentario Visioni dal Mondo, Italy (2025)
Festival de Cinéma Plan d'Ensemble, Canada (2025)
Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival, Turkey (2025)
EKOFILM Film Festival, Czech Republic (2025)
DA2 - Zagreb Design, Art and Architecture Film Festival, Croatia (2025)
films for future, Switzerland (2025)
Beirut Art Film Festival, Lebanon (2025)
DoCoa Nature Film Festival, Portugal (2025)
Terraviva Film Festival, Italy (2025)
EU Human Rights Film Days, Turkey (2025)
DART Festival, Spain (2025)