If you purchase a weekend or Sunday ticket, that will gain you free entry to the films – but please be at the screening 15 minutes before the start to guarantee a seat.
To book any of the films on their own, book here – or phone 0117 927 5100.
The Future of Hope
11:30am, Sunday
The Future of Hope
- Director
- Henry Bateman
- Duration
- 72 minutes
Future of Hope is a documentary film following individuals that strive to change the world of consumerism, a system of credit and debt that the Icelandic economy was built upon for the past 10 years or more. Focusing on sustainable developments in organic farming, business, innovation, renewable energy and the environment – filled with positivity and emotion as we are taken on a story of struggle, determination and most importantly… hope. From the midnight sun, to dark winters lit only by the snow, from geysers to volcanoes, this movie truly explores the magnificent country of Iceland. Future of Hope takes you on a journey from the history to the present and even into the future of a new and sustainable Iceland.
Featuring:
Vala Ragnarsdottir – Dean of the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences at the University of Iceland. Formerly a Professor of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Bristol, UK until 2008.
http://convergeproject.org/kristin_vala_ragnarsdottir
Four Horsemen
2:00pm, Sunday
- Director:
- Ross Ashcroft
- Duration:
- 100 minutes
The Four Horsemen are coming.
Four Horsemen
Mega-trends are converging when governments, organised religion and mainstream economists have stalled. Understanding we will never return to ‘business as usual’ 23 international experts, government advisors and Wall Street money-men break their silence and explain how to re-order our interaction with each other and our planet.
Interviewees include:
Prof. Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz is an Economist and Professor at Columbia University, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and Former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank.
John Perkins
John Perkins is the New York’s Times bestselling author of ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit-Man’ telling the real-life story about his extraordinary dealings as an Economic Hitman and CIA contractor, exposing the world of international intrigue and corruption.
Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar is the editor of Resurgence Magazine, founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College International Centre for Ecological Studies and of The Small School.
Prof. Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is the Institute Professor and Professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a World renowned American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer who has dominated his field for over 30 years.
Prof. Herman Daly
Herman Daly is a Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs. He is Former Senior Economist at the World Bank and Co-founder of ‘Steady State Economics’.
Animate Earth
4:00pm, Sunday
Animate Earth - Stephan Harding
New Wisdom for Dangerous Times
By Sally Angel & Josh Good – In this film , renowned ecologist and co-founder of Schumacher College, Stephan Harding argues that many of the environmental problems, which we now face stem from traditional mechanistic science. Harding puts the case for a new kind of science, fit for the 21st Century – a science that not only makes us clever but also makes us wise. Leading figures – including Fritjof Capra, Vandana Shiva and Satish Kumar – support the cultivation of more intuitive ways of knowing.
Animate Earth - New Wisdom for Dangerous Times
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Stephan Harding, looking at both the science and at the work of Schumacher College.
Voices of Transition
7:00pm, Sunday
- Director:
- Nils Aguilar
- Duration:
- 65 minutes
Voices of Transition
Filmed in the UK, France and Cuba, focussing on how an oil free, community and farmer led agriculture & food system will produce living soil, more resilient economic structures and a more fulfilling life. Featuring Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition towns movement
Voices of Transition is an enthusiastic documentary on farmers and community-led responses to food insecurity in a scenario of climate change and peak oil. Those ‘voices’, recorded in Cuba, France and the UK, tell us of of a future society where our monoculture deserts will once again be living soil, where fields will be introduced into our cities, and where independence from oil will help us to live a richer, more fulfilling life.
Other interviewees:
- (Dr.) Fernando Funes Monzote, expert in agroecology
- (Dr.) Christian Dupraz, expert in agroforestry
- (Dr.) Claude Bourguignon, expert in agromicrobiology
- Mike Feingold, expert in permaculture
