Nils Aguilar
Documentary, France, Germany
Runtime 66 min.
Voices of the Transition is a documentary by Nils Aguilar on farmers- and community-led responses to food insecurity in a scenario of climate change and peak oil. How to create local resilience? How to create a production system that enhances life? What role could the trees play? Different “voices from the Transition,” from Cuba, France and the UK, tell us of a future society where our 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.
The filmmakers state their purpose in making this film as follows:
The beginning of the 21st century has revealed itself to be decisive for humanity. There are a number of alternatives to prepare our societies and our economies for the imminent shortage of fossil fuels as well as the ongoing climate change.
This film presents alternatives that excel because of their ecological integrity, their simplicity, their low cost, as well as their ease of access for the general population. These solutions aim to strengthen local community networks, encourage local economies and are based on the free transmission of knowledge. Their local integration allows for an increase in the resilience of communities and by extension, society, which signifies their resistance to external shock.
In France, England and Cuba, we interviewed protagonists of the cultural and agricultural changes, who all inspire us to start on the path of the transition towards food sovereignty and the relocalization of economies and of the food production system: they are farmers, agroforesters, permaculture activists, urban gardeners, experts in agroecology, activists for “food sovereignty” and consumers, organized in CSAs, members of “Transition Towns”, or even founders of local currencies.
Voices of the Transition official site
Screening at 1pm on Sunday, November 13 in the Al Whittle Theatre – Studio Z