Protect the Planet supports the cinema release of the urgewald documentary
The new documentary film to mark the 30th anniversary of the environmental and human rights organisation urgewald will be released in October 2024. Protect the Planet is supporting the theatrical release together with the Dorothea-Laura-Janina Sick Environmental Foundation and the Schönau Power Plant: Together with urgewald and the film distributor W-Movie We are accompanying the film with a cinema tour throughout Germany, with prominent talk panels from the environmental scene and numerous local supporters in five cities.
About the film
Destruction of nature and disregard for human rights – behind these are often large corporations and banks that also use our money. For over 30 years, urgewald has been uncovering such financial flows and resisting destruction and displacement. Protect the Planet founder Dorothea Sick-Thies has been following urgewald’s work for years and emphasizes:
“In my opinion, urgewald is one of the most successful organizations in the environmental field because they take on the big players: the banks. urgewald shows how much money is still being put into fossil fuels, fossil fuels that are ultimately destroying our earth. This must finally stop,” says Dorothea Sick-Thies.
urgewald has prevented forced resettlements, blocked cluster munitions loans and stopped the construction of a nuclear power plant: The documentary film by Peter and Karin Wejdling tells the story of the small association that became an influential organization – an advocate for the environment and human rights. It looks back over the past decades and shows how a small association became an influential organization that has long since respected as a critical voice in the executive suites of the financial industry and heard. In addition to the founders and team members of urgewald, the film also features financial insiders, activists and politicians such as Claudia Kemfert, Luisa Neubauer and Jürgen Trittin to speak.
Goosebumps at the preview event on July 12 in Munich
In July we had a Preview event at Munich’s Sendlinger Tor film theater invited, with urgewald celebrities and climate lawyer Roda Verheyen. Here is an impression of the moving evening, which gives a foretaste of the premiere tour in October.
We would like to invite you to watch this thrilling and inspiring film with us in the cinema:
The cinema tour of the urgewald documentary at a glance
09.10.2024 | 6 p.m.: Kant Kino, Kantstr. 54, 10627 Berlin (premiere)
17.10.2024 | 6 p.m.: Abaton, Allendeplatz 3 / corner of Grindelhof, 20146 Hamburg
20.10.2024 | 11 a.m.: Filmbühne, Friedrich-Breuer-Straße 68-70, 53225 Bonn
20.10.2024 | 2 p.m.: Odeon, Severinstrasse 81, 50678 Köln
24.10.2024 | 6 p.m.: Friedrichsbau Lichtspiele, Kaiser-Joseph-Str. 268 – 270, 79098 Freiburg
Further screenings of the urgewald documentary
Anyone who would like to see the film again in Munich is cordially invited to the Film event in the Munich Zukunftssalonwhich we are organizing together with the Munich Forum for Sustainability as part of the Munich Climate Autumn: 16.10. in the Munich Zukunftssalon with urgewald guests Olga Egli and Regine Richter for a film discussion (info and registration link here).
On October 21, Protect the Planet founder and filmmaker Carl-A. Fechner will also be present at a special screening of the film in Tuttlingen to be there.
An overview of all film events can be found at W-Movie and urgewald.
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