From the movie "Dance Up from the Street"...
Sustainable Life Film Festival this year will appear before audience with 29 movies, four chattings, four music performances, four movies' audio description, and an exhibition.
City, struggle, natural resources...
In the program of the festival organized as of 2013, there are movies such as "Bikes vs Cars" focusing on themes like cities filled with cars, ever-growing noisy traffic chaos; "Sea Change" about a Turkana native starting a grassroots fight to prevent Gibe III dam in Ethiopia in order to protect basic water resources, namely Omo River and Turkana Lake, of Turkana natives; "Planet Rethink" analyzing at what stage we've arrived by using our planet's limited resources for technology over financial and ecological crisis.
Price of dressing
The True Cost treats a story about our dresses. It is a movie about the dresses we wear, the people who make them, and the impact of this industry on the world.
Cost of dressing has been falling as its humanitarian and environmental impacts dramatically increase. The True Cost is a documentary uncovering the curtain and urges us to contemplate on who pays the real price of our dresses.
Three days long
The movies will be screened at Chamber of Civil Engineers and Congress Center Rüştü Özal Room in Ankara free of charge.
The festival organized by Chamber of Civil Enginners Ankara Branch and 350ankara.org will take place between the dates of November 20-22. (YY/TK)
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