Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change
Nov 08, 2021 | IMDB 0
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Climate change is among the world’s greatest challenges. As a small Caribbean island, Cuba is disproportionately affected by climate change through extreme weather events. Up to 10% of Cuban territory could be submerged by the end of the century, wiping out coastal towns, polluting water supplies, destroying agricultural lands and forcing one million people to relocate. Finding solutions is now essential. In this documentary, Dr Helen Yaffe goes to Cuba to find out about ‘Tarea Vida’ (Life Task), a long-term state plan to protect the population, environment and the economy from climate change. The Cuban approach combines environmental science, natural solutions and community participation in strategies for adaptation and mitigation. Produced by DaniFilms with Dr Helen Yaffe from the University of Glasgow for the COP26 conference in Glasgow.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Sea No Longer Stops Here
Thomas Pesquet : Objectif France
Hotel Nueva Isla
Balaton retró
Before the Flood
Cuban Serenade
Mechanics of Creativity
The Hugo Chavez Show
Fahrenheit 9/11
An Inconvenient Truth
Svetlo na konci dňa
Freedom Isn't Free — The Freedom Charter Today
Patria O Muerte: Cuba, Fatherland or Death
Nach dem Sturm
Havana, From On High
Cuba in Africa
Castro's Spies
Island Ablazed
Decay: On Fascism and Breakdown
Buena Vista Social Club
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Sea No Longer Stops Here
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2020
Caldeira, Sado estuary. A clam picker and his friend spend the morning collecting up the bounty of the tide.Thomas Pesquet : Objectif France
IMDB 7.8 | Feb , 2023
Hotel Nueva Isla
IMDB 6.2 | Oct , 2014
In the early twentieth century, the Hotel Nueva Isla was an emblematic luxury hotel. After the Cuban Revolution, it was confiscated by the State and became a shelter for homeless people. Located in Old Havana, today it is an imposing ruin. Jorge de los Rios, a retired clerk, is one of the few residents who remain there, along with La Flaca, his lover, and Waldo, a young itinerant. As the rest leave for safer places, Jorge clings to his dilapidated home and its buried treasures, slowly digging his way through its debris. The film speaks poignantly to a lost generation who fought in the Cuban Revolution and dreamed of a better society.Balaton retró
IMDB 7.7 | Dec , 2007
Scenes from holiday life at Lake Balaton in Hungary during the communism.Before the Flood
IMDB 7.7 | Oct , 2016
A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the demise of endangered species, ecosystems, and native communities across the planet.Cuban Serenade
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1997
Finnish documentary about Cuba.Mechanics of Creativity
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2014
Former Formula One driver David Coulthard travels to Havana, Cuba, to drive in the Cuba Classic Rally. He meets a brotherhood of mechanics who have managed to keep their cars running for decades.The Hugo Chavez Show
IMDB 6 | Nov , 2008
Frontline examines Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez chronicling his rise to power and offering insights into his personality, policies and his shrewd use of the media.Fahrenheit 9/11
IMDB 7.1 | Jun , 2004
Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.An Inconvenient Truth
IMDB 7 | May , 2006
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.Svetlo na konci dňa
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2021
A documentary on the "Slovak Solzhenitsyn" Rudolf Dobiáš (*1934), political prisoner during the Communist era.Freedom Isn't Free — The Freedom Charter Today
IMDB 8 | Jun , 2018
Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source of inspiration in the liberation struggle against Apartheid. It was reputedly the main source that informed democratic South Africa’s liberal constitution and a constant reference point for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and rival political parties that it spawned since 1994, all claiming the Freedom Charter’s legacy. Freedom Isn’t Free assesses the history and role of the charter, especially in relation to key political and socio-economic aspects of developments in South Africa up to the present period. It includes rare archival footage with interviews of a cross-section of outspoken influential South Africans.Patria O Muerte: Cuba, Fatherland or Death
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2016
A raw, unvarnished look at contemporary Cuba through the lens of its people, who are at once fiercely loyal to their country while being extremely dissatisfied after decades of neglect.Nach dem Sturm
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2019
The protests of 1968 had a significant impact on the great cities of the world. But people like to forget that the periphery went through the same social upheavals – Central Switzerland, for example. This is hardly surprising: in the founding cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy, society followed a strict order; tradition, shaped by centuries of Catholic rule, seemed untouchable. But in the 1960s, the local youth could not take these stifling conditions anymore: starting in 1969, resistance broke out across Central Switzerland.Havana, From On High
IMDB 7 | May , 2019
The chronic shortage of housing in Central Havana has pushed the city upwards, where life spills out onto the rooftops. Resilient and remarkable, these rooftop dwellers have a privileged point of view on a society in the process of major transformation.Cuba in Africa
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2021
The dramatic untold story of 420,000 Cubans– soldiers and teachers, doctors and nurses– who gave everything to end colonial rule and apartheid in Southern Africa.Castro's Spies
IMDB 9.3 | Nov , 2020
The thrilling story of an elite group of Cuban spies sent undercover to the US in the 1990s. From their recruitment, training and eventual capture on US soil; this film peers into a secret world of false identities, love affairs and betrayal. Using never seen before footage from the Cuban Film Institute’s archive and first-hand testimony from the people at the heart of this story, Castro’s Spies gives a rare glimpse into the shadowy world of a spy – where the stakes are life and death.Island Ablazed
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1961
Documentary recounting the story of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the young people of Cuba.Decay: On Fascism and Breakdown
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2022
A feature length Marxist documentary looking at 20th Century fascism, early English settler colonialism in the Americas and the prospects of a contemporary neofascism. The film focuses on the political economy of these forms, drawing on Rajani Palme Dutt's view that fascism represented an organisation of capitalist decay, to illustrate the various different laws of motion which condition the development of reactionary political movements.Buena Vista Social Club
IMDB 7.5 | Jun , 1999
In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group's gigs in Amsterdam and New York City's famed Carnegie Hall, with director Wim Wenders capturing not only the music -- but also the musicians' life stories.