We at Earth Refuge are thrilled to partner with Counterpoints Arts, CMJ (Climate & Migrant Justice Organising Group), and City of Sanctuary for the Our Shared Futures: Climate & Migration Community Film Festival 2025. Running from 21–30 November 2025, this free, UK-wide festival highlights the urgent connections between climate change and migration, bringing communities together to watch, discuss, and take action.
Whether you’re part of a community group, school, library, or just want to host a screening at home, anyone in the UK can take part. All films are free to stream online during the festival, with rights and licensing already arranged and English subtitles provided where available. Each screening comes with resources and discussion prompts to spark reflection and conversation about climate justice and migration.
At Earth Refuge, we believe stories have the power to connect communities, inspire action, and build solidarity. Join us for this film festival to explore the human side of climate migration and help shape a shared future that is just and inclusive.
The Films
Utama (2022, 1h27 mins, 12A) – An elderly Quechua couple in Bolivia confronts a devastating drought that threatens their traditional way of life. The film reckons with the grief that individual families contend with in the face of climate change, as well as intergenerational reactions to climate change.
Thank You For The Rain (2017, 1hr27 mins, 12A) – This powerful documentary follows Kisilu Musya, a Kenyan farmer who begins filming his daily life to show the real impacts of climate change on his community. Over five years, his story evolves from local struggle to global activism as he journeys to the UN climate talks in Paris. The film captures the personal toll of changing weather patterns while exposing the deep inequalities that shape who is heard (and who is not) in global climate debates.
And Still, It Remains (2023, 28min, 12A) – A poetic and unsettling reflection on the long shadows cast by French nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara. Combining archival footage, testimony, and striking imagery, the film explores how radioactive contamination and environmental damage continue to affect local communities decades after colonial powers left. It asks what justice means when the land itself remembers violence.
Dead As A Dodo (2022, 5min 9 sec)) – An experimental short film that reimagines the extinction of the dodo to examine how colonialism, science, and ecological loss intertwine. Through sound and image collage, it questions how stories of extinction are told, and who gets to tell them; exposing how ideas of dominance over nature are rooted in colonial histories. This work is inspired by and is in conversation with a book of poems titled A Theory of Birds by the Palestinian-American poet Zaina Alsous.
Until The Last Drop (2020, 20min 20sec) – Set in the occupied West Bank, this documentary portrays the lives of two farmers struggling under an apartheid system of water access. Their story reveals how control over natural resources becomes a tool of oppression, linking environmental injustice with political conflict. The film makes visible the intimate, everyday impacts of global debates about rights, scarcity, and survival.
How to Get Involved
Register now to watch the films at home or host a screening in your community. You can also watch a recording of our online info session to learn more and fill in any questions you might have.
Access the film guide here (this covers how to organise a screening, and helpful tips e.g. staying safe, ideas for venues, and equipment).
Access our free education pack here (this features key information on language, discussion prompts related to the films, and calls to action).
You are welcome to use materials from the public marketing folder, including photos, posters, social media assets, and presentation slides, to support your screenings and online promotion.
Current List of Public Screenings
Over 200 screenings are happening across the country! See below to discover which public screenings are happening near you.
England
- Arnside
- Birmingham
- Brighton
- Bristol
- Cheltenham
- Hove
- London, Hackney
- London, Holborn
- London, Islington
- London, Kensington and Chelsea
- London, Loughborough Junction
- London, Maida Vale
- Reading
Wales
Scotland
Hosting a public screening? Please email [email protected] to share your event link with us. Thanks.