Climate change and the environmental crisis
Highlights include the exclusive feature film Into the Ice, previously unseen in Spain, and the short film Haulout, nominated for an Oscar. The revolutionary theories of the visionary scientist Lynn Margulis are explored in Symbiotic Earth, another of the week's important premieres.
CaixaForum+ is exclusively premiering Into the Ice (2022), a feature-length documentary that has never been released in Spain and a powerful work that aims to solve a mystery: despite many years of research, we still don't know exactly how fast the Greenland ice sheet is melting.
This is the question Danish filmmaker Lars Henrik Ostenfeld hopes to answer when he sets out on an expedition with three of the world's leading glaciologists, Jason Box, Alun Hubbard and Dorthe Dahl-Jensen. The journey will take them as far as 180 metres into one of the ice sheet's major Moulin holes, deeper than any human being has ever gone before. Into the Ice is a visually powerful voyage of discovery into the enormous ice masses of Greenland, whose melting will change life on our planet. The film, previously unreleased in Spain, had its world premiere in 2022 at the prestigious CPH: DOX International Documentary Film Festival in Copenhagen.
Documental: Halout
Haulout (2022) arrives on the platform, an extraordinary documentary short film about the impact of climate change that was nominated for an Oscar in 2023 in the category of Best Documentary Short Film.
Directed by Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev, Haulout depicts a lonely man living in a windswept cabin on the remote coast of the Russian Arctic, waiting to witness an ancient event. However, the warming of the oceans and rising temperatures bring about an unexpected change that leaves him overwhelmed. Haulout will be available at CaixaForum+ from today.
Documental: Symbiotic Earth
Landing on the platform is the feature-length documentary Symbiotic Earth (John Feldman, 2017), which explores the life and ideas of the rebellious scientist Lynn Margulis, who challenged the entrenched theories of male-dominated science. As a young scientist in the 1960s, Margulis was ridiculed for first proposing that symbiosis was a key driver of evolution when organisms live and work together. Yet he persisted. Through numerous collaborations, he brought about a sea change in our understanding of life.
Margulis' symbiotic narrative presents an alternative to the destructive worldview that has led to climate change and extreme capitalism. Together with James Lovelock, he developed the Gaia theory, which holds that all life is interconnected and interdependent. His vision offers bold insights into health, society and nature, and also inspires creative approaches to our pressing environmental and social crises.
Documental: Suites for a Suffering World
The feature-length documentary Suites for a Suffering World (2023), previously unseen in Spain, is now available at CaixaForum+. Melting glaciers, desert landscapes, flooded communities: the alarming impact that climate change is having, even in Europe. What is mankind doing to this wonderful planet? Horror at the ravages and destruction of our incredible ecosystems has led celebrated German cellist Tanja Tetzlaff to travel with her instrument to places in Europe where climate change is already a reality and has caused damage that is visible to the naked eye.
Directed by Stéphan Aubé, Suites for a Suffering World shows this journey. Surrounded by somewhat curious settings, Tanja Tetzlaff performs Johann Sebastian Bach's cello suites numbers 4 and 5, which contrast with the pieces Thorsten Encke composed especially for her. The beauty of the music contrasts with the harsh images of a stricken nature that fights the ultimate destruction. A musical, visual and moving plea for greater care and humility for the beauty of our planet that is both enchanting and disturbing at the same time.
New episode of Masters of journalism: Rosa Maria Calaf
CaixaForum+ premieres the penultimate episode of the second season of the Masters of Journalism podcast, dedicated to Rosa Maria Calaf, TVE's longest-serving correspondent, with a twenty-five-year career abroad. She opened the Moscow bureau for the Soviet Union in 1987, and was also correspondent in Rome, Vienna, Hong Kong and Beijing. In addition, she was New York correspondent for the United States and Canada, and was part of the founding team of TV3, becoming its first director of programming in 1983. She has been awarded the 2001 Ondas Prize for the best professional work, the Cirilo Rodríguez Journalism Prize, the National Journalism Prize of Catalonia, the International Press Club Prize for the Best Spanish Journalistic Work Abroad, the José Couso Prize for Freedom of the Press and the 2017 Red Cross Gold Medal, among many other awards.
The Masters of Journalism podcast brings together the experiences and experiences of great figures in this profession. The Madrid Press Association, which produces the podcast, aims with this strategic project to preserve the memory of journalism through its protagonists and extol the pride of being a journalist.
The first eight episodes of this second season of the podcast, dedicated to Maruja Torres, José María García, Pilar Urbano, Pedro J. Ramírez, Rosa Montero, Miguel Ángel Aguilar, Nativel Preciado and Miguel Ángel Gozalo, are now available on CaixaForum+.
