ThuleTuvalu

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Movie
German title ThuleTuvalu
Original title ThuleTuvalu
Country of production Switzerland
original language English , Inuktitut , Tuvaluan
Publishing year 2014
length 96 minutes
Rod
Director Matthias von Gunten
script Matthias von Gunten
production Valentin Greutert
Simon Hesse
Matthias von Gunten
music Marcel Vaid
camera Pierre Mennel , Valentino Vigniti (camera assistant)
cut Caterina Mona
Claudio Cea
occupation

Local population

ThuleTuvalu is a documentary by the Swiss film director Matthias von Gunten about the consequences of global warming for the residents of Thule in the far north of Greenland and the Tuvalu archipelago in the Pacific Ocean . The film was released in Germany on August 13, 2015.

Background and content

Ice floes at Thule
A beach in the Tuvalu archipelago

At the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009 , the participating states agreed to limit the global rise in temperatures to less than 2 ° Celsius. The residents of the island state of Tuvalu spoke out against it, because a temperature two degrees higher would cause Tuvalu to sink into the sea. Ultimately, however, they were forced to sign the agreement.

The documentary by Matthias von Gunten uses examples of real families from Thule and Tuvalu to show the changes in the living conditions of these people who are directly confronted with the consequences of global warming: Although the locations are geographically thousands of kilometers apart, they share a common fate: By the melting of the polar ice caps and global warming , the ice in the area around Thule continues to decline year after year, the sea freezes over later and later and seal hunting , the livelihood of the local residents, is becoming more and more difficult ( see also Shishmaref , Alaska ).

This development also has negative effects on Tuvalu due to a steady rise in sea level for the local population, because the highest point of the archipelago is only around four meters above sea level. The rising sea water already regularly floods some areas and the drinking water consisting of rainwater reservoirs is increasingly mixed with salt water, so that the native plants perish and the cultivation of food is hardly possible. Some residents who could afford it have therefore already emigrated to New Zealand .

Notes on the film

“Climate change is already noticeable today. The people who have the lowest share of global warming are particularly affected. "

- Mojib Latif : (Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel)

“The film ThuleTuvalu illustrates in a very moving way the consequences of global warming [...]. It is high time everyone was educated about the ecological effects of climate change: habitat loss, species extinction and climate-induced emigration - to name just a few examples. It must be in the interests of the international community to strictly protect ecosystems like Thule and Tuvalu. I would like to thank the makers for this moving story. "

- Barbara Hendricks : (Federal Environment Minister) Institute for Cinema and Film Culture

“Gripping documentary about two worlds that are fundamentally threatened by climate change - in Greenland and on a Pacific island. The Swiss documentarist Matthias von Gunten refrains from interviews with politicians or scientists and immerses himself in the everyday life of people who experience the increasingly rapid melting of the polar ice as a torrential event and apocalyptic catastrophe. "

Awards

  • 2014: "Silver Sesterz" at the international film festival " Visions du Réel " in Nyon, in the category "best Swiss film" ( French Sesterce d'argent SRG SSR, Meilleur film suisse toutes sections confondues 2014 )
  • 2015: Winner in the "Coastal Culture Award" category of the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival (SFIOFF)

In addition, the film was shown at numerous other film festivals in 2014 and 2015.

further reading

  • Mojib Latif: Are we getting the climate out of sync? Background and forecasts . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-17276-4 (original edition).
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Gerstengarbe, Harald Welzer (Ed.): Two degrees more in Germany. How climate change will change our everyday life . Fischer, Frankfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-18910-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ThuleTuvalu. thuletuvalu.de, accessed on October 7, 2015 .
  2. ThuleTuvalu on film-kultur.de (PDF).
  3. Theatrical releases of the week of August 13, 2015. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved January 15, 2017 .
  4. ThuleTuvalu on visionsdureel.ch.
  5. 2015 Festival Award Winners - San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival. oceanfilmfest.org, February 3, 2015, accessed October 7, 2015 .
  6. ^ Thomas Schneider: Thule Tuvalu. (No longer available online.) Dokville2015.de, archived from the original on August 13, 2015 ; accessed on October 7, 2015 .
  7. Robert Bitterli: odysseefilm - Matthias von Gunten - ThuleTuvalu (2014). odysseefilm.ch, accessed on October 7, 2015 .