February 6, 2025
RSVP: Eventbrite (Please RSVP for each screening individually)
Location: 241 Giannini Hall
Date & Time:
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Thursday, February 6th, 6-8 pm | The True Cost (2015) | 93 m
- Thursday, March 6th, 6-8 pm | Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda (1999) | 55 m
- Thursday, April 3rd, 6-8 pm | Plastic China (2016) | 82 m
- Thursday, May 8th, 6-8 pm | Concerning Violence (2014) | 90m
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OR A Climate Woke Special Screening (TBD)
Overview
This film series aims to highlight the documentary visions that have radically contextualized the environmental and health issues across continents in the Global South. These international films capture subaltern voices framed within global capitalism, extractivism, waste colonialism, and imperial violence. These powerful works zoom in and out of the local, national, and global to untangle structural relationships between us and them, here and there.
Lineup
- The True Cost investigates the untraceable influence of international fashion corporations on gendered labor and toxic industrial disasters in Bangladesh and India.
- Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda captures the violent radiative effects of uranium mining on Adivasi communities in India while government officials deny their miscarriages and deformity to superstition.
- Plastic China captures the towering burden of global waste in the hands of a few rural villagers in China searching for wealth in foreign rubbish.
- Concerning Violence combines archival footage and revolutionary narration, tracing the histories of empires and the power of resistance in Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Mozambique and Angola.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with Annika Luo (Indoor Club Director) at annikaluo@berkeley.edu.