Teaser
- ‘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 a future society where our deserts will once again be living soil and where independence from oil will help us to live a richer and more fulfilling life.
Synopsis
- Synopsis
The beginning of the 21st century has revealed itself as being decisive for humanity. Our societies, being confronted to an imminent shortage of fossils fuels, to economical instability as well as to the ongoing climate change, seem to no longer be safe from famines...
The film, optimistic but clear-sighted nonetheless, is showing that these current crises in fact are positive challenges! We are introduced to an impressive range of solutions that all excel for their ecological integrity and their huge societal benefits. Low-cost, open-source and simple to adopt, they help us to encourage our local businesses and to re-empower our communities. Integrate those solutions into your daily lives and you’ll see that the change not solely is a necessity, but also, that it can be fun!
Long synopsis
Agro-industry, by aiming at immediate profit and not respecting the ancestral laws of agronomy, is responsible for the massive, unprecedented erosion of soils. If you add climate change and vanishing natural resources to the picture, even the Northern societies no longer seem to be safe from famines.
The film, optimistic but clear-sighted nonetheless, is showing that these current crises in fact are positive challenges!
In France farmers and researchers show us that agroforestry techniques, which imitate natural ecosystems, bear enormous potentialities for our agriculture. It appears to be just a matter of time till our monoculture fields will be turned into abundant and biodiverse edible forests.
In England, the new Transition Towns movement is developing amazingly quickly. It gives evidence that food production is not just in the hands of rural farmers, but that it can move to the very heart of cities: city-dwellers are no longer mere consumers, but play a vital part in the transformation of their communities towards local resilience.
In Cuba, the fall of the USSR in 1990 and the US embargo led to an oil peak long before it was due to happen. Shortages in resources led the Cubans to imagine innovating solutions in order to become more self-sufficient in food production. Food is now being produced organically, in a decentralized, community-supporting way.
Crew
- Director: Nils Aguilar, Nils Aguilar, Elischa Kaminer
- Screenplay: Nils Aguilar
- Director of photography: Jerôme Polidor
- Editor (Cut): Nicolas Servide
- Sound: Nicolas Teichner
