Climate Film Festival: LA Climate Week Pop-Up
Join us for NYC-based Climate Film Festival's first Los Angeles Screening Pop-Up!
This program will include a shorts block of selected festival films from the 2025 edition of Climate Film Festival that exemplify the variety of climate storytelling, followed by a discussion on the importance of art and culture in creating change.
Doors at 6:30pm, programming begins promptly at 7:00pm.
The screening will be followed a filmmaker Q&A featuring Greer Fawcett (Director, Clean Up Sayu), Tehya Jennett & Maxfield Biggs (Co-Directors, Dreamland), and Zazie Ray-Trapido (Director, The Instability of Clouds); moderated by Heather Fipps, Executive Director, Hollywood Climate Summit.
Screening Block Includes:
This event is hosted by Climate Film Festival and Stranded Astronaut Productions, in partnership with Earth Calling and LA Climate Week.
This event has limited capacity. Admission will be first come, first served — we encourage early arrival to guarantee your spot.
By attending, you consent to being photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded. Your entry constitutes your consent to such photography, filming, and/or recording and to any use, in any and all media, in perpetuity, of your appearance, voice, and name for any purpose whatsoever in connection with the event.
About the Films
Haunted by rising sea levels, a daughter digs up her father’s grave to move his body to higher ground.
Two neighbors bond after a shared traumatic event, continuous home developments creep into nature's threshold, and a community celebrates freedom. The Instability of Clouds navigates a suburban ecosystem in decay and growth while traversing its spaces of comfort, spectacle, and disaster. Through observing and constructing facets within a suburban neighborhood in Southern California, connections between landscape, neighbors, and environment ruminate on the American Dream and its resonances.
Content Warning: This film contains flashing lights or patterns that may affect photosensitive individuals. Viewer discretion is advised.
Comprised entirely of archival footage from U.S. propaganda and home videos sourced from the public domain, this film is an open letter to the place of dreams - what it has been, and what it could be. The associated poem, “Dreamland,” addresses the complicated history of the role American idealism played in covering up global decimation. There is a communal longing for a simpler time, but what does that time actually refer to? How can we remember and examine the past to forge a better future?
Content Warning: This film contains flashing lights or patterns that may affect photosensitive individuals. Viewer discretion is advised.
Set against an otherworldly landscape, this experimental short traces the metamorphosis of a larva into a mosquito, unraveling a layered exploration of identity, migration, and estrangement. Through a sensorial, hybrid form that blends microscopic footage with alienesque terrains, the film follows the mosquito’s passage through unfamiliar environments as it struggles to understand its own body and purpose. Disoriented and unmoored, the insect becomes a vessel for broader existential questions, transformation and displacement. Shot on expired 16mm film along the northeastern coast of Brazil, the film evokes both decay and discovery.
Content Warning: This film contains flashing lights or patterns that may affect photosensitive individuals. Viewer discretion is advised.
Sayu-limpia is a heartwarming and eye-opening short documentary that tells the story of Sayulita—a once-pristine surf town turned bustling tourist hub. At its core is Chilly-Willy, a beloved elder and tireless guardian of Mexico’s coastline, whose efforts embody the spirit of community resilience. Alongside Chilly-Willy, local residents work together to reclaim their polluted paradise by organizing clean-ups, building waste infrastructure, and creating educational opportunities for the next generation. The film is a celebration of these environmental heroes.
“The lake was our mother, our father. Now, we are orphans.” For generations, the Uru Indigenous Nation had been the inhabitants of the 3,000-square-kilometer Lake Poopó, living on floating islands, hunting and fishing for sustenance, and forming an inextricable cultural bond to its vast waters.
Throughout the early 21st century, the Uru way of life changed drastically; industrial mining operations contaminated and diverted Lake Poopó’s tributary streams, which, along with extensive drought, caused the lake’s waters to disappear entirely by 2016. This documentary short explores the challenges faced by the last remaining Urus of Lake Poopó, as well as their resilience and adaptation in the face of obstacles to water access. Despite the loss of the lake that once defined their culture and means of survival, the Urus continue to call themselves Qotzuñis—their ancestral word for “people of the lake.”
Content Warning: This film contains disturbing images of animals that became deceased prior to the film's production. Viewer discretion is advised.
A bee flies through a loud, smog-ridden city when it encounters seventy-year-old Henry, a gentle soul. Every day, he escapes his monotonous job to the city's last community garden. It is a jungle of colourful and vibrant life: Animals, bugs, and plants all living symbiotically with the gardeners. Until today. Drilling! Banging! Hammering! The decision has been made to build a shopping mall that will tear this garden apart. Henry is paralysed with confusion when Narjisse, a passionate young activist, instantly starts aggressively trying to rally the sceptical community, to no avail. Henry finds Narjisse’s approach disruptive and patronising. Instead, he smugly writes a letter to the Mayor. Days later, Narjisse is still protesting. Henry, annoyed, expresses his exasperation at her method. In the distance, diggers start rumbling. Henry and Narjisse, two generations, realise they need to join forces. This helps break the community’s apathy for hopefully a new beginning.