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BEFORE THE FLOOD
Start date: Nov 26, 2015, End date: May 25, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Over the last four years Kisilu, a smallholder, has used his camera to capture the life of his family, his village and the impacts of extreme weather. He has filmed floods, droughts and storms but also the more human impacts - his kids are sent home from school when he can’t pay the fees; men are moving to towns in search for jobs; and relations within his family become more and more strained. But Kisilu refuses to give up - instead he finds himself on the biggest political journey of his life. Travelling to Paris to present his footage as evidence to delegates at the UN Climate Talks, his video diaries take on a remarkable new meaning. Amid the murky cut and thrust of politics at COP21, ‘the biggest environmental show on earth’, Kisilu sheds a powerful new light on the climate justice movement and the people who supposedly lead us.This film is about change. On a macro level it is about our changing weather, but much more than that it is about a man who is forced to change. It is about a journey of a farmer and family man who becomes a leader in his community. It is about the psychological challenges when everything you know is changing around you and you realise that you and your family aren’t changing fast enough to cope. It is about the impossible choice of being a good father, an available father, or an absent father that works for a better future.“Mastery in the art of filmmaking”One World Media
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