Beyond Progress

Oct 11, 2024, 6.30 PM @ Festival Center D'24

Event language: English

The climate crisis poses a global challenge. Where are the ethical boundaries of progress in a world marked by inequality? Together with filmmakers and experts, we will discuss how we can shape research to meet the needs of all people. Elias König’s book Klimagerechtigkeit offers a framework for this discussion. We will ask: How can we change our lifestyles and foster international solidarity to address the climate crisis? We will then screen Yintah, a powerful film that chronicles an Indigenous community’s fight against a destructive pipeline.

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Guests

Juan Francisco Donoso

Juan Francisco Donoso is a documentary filmmaker who has produced a film that gets under your skin with In our Backyards (working title). He has participated in The Good Media Lab and Pitch and worked with an international team of experts on the impact campaign for his film as part of the Film and Impact Lab.

Elias König

Elias König writes about social movements and climate justice and is involved in the Shell Must Fall alliance. His articles have appeared in The Ecologist, Truthout, New Bloom, analyse & kritik, der Freitag and Klimareporter.de, among others. Most recently, he was a Yenching Scholar at Peking University, researching environmental philosophy from a Chinese perspective.

Moderation

Anna Ramskogler-Witt

Anna Ramskogler-Witt began her career in the film industry in 2006 at Vienna's Pool Film Distribution, where she set up the education programme. Since the beginning of her career, she has been convinced that documentaries can achieve a longer life and a larger audience through an impact approach. From 2019 - 2023 she served as Artistic Director of the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin. Together with Vivian Schröder, she founded The Good Media Network in 2024 and serves as the Artistic Director.

Media in this event

Book

Klimagerechtigkeit

Climate Justice connects the climate crisis with social injustice. The book shows how colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy have contributed to the climate crisis and how marginalized groups are disproportionately affected by its consequences, calling for a just fight against climate change.

Film

Yintah

In the Wet’suwet’en First Nation community, resistance to the construction of an underwater pipeline that jeopardizes the community’s livelihood has been growing. Activists Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham take us with them on their fight to reappropriate their homeland.