ONCE YOU KNOW
Emmanuel Cappellin / France / 2020 / 105 min
Today, like a ship entering the storm, the world faces climate change induced collapse. Once You Know, by director Emmanuel Cappellin, is a poetic and poignant exploration of how four of the world’s leading climate scientists and energy experts find truth, chaos, and hope in their work. Through interviews that take him around our planet onboard a container-ship, Emmanuel, who previously worked on the world-release HUMAN, asks “What is meaningful work on the way down?” This haunting question challenges everything he takes for granted – from growth-based democracies to personal freedoms – and ultimately brings him back home, in Saillans, his Alps mountain village, where meaningful work towards collective resilience and social justice begins.
About the film
Today, like a ship entering the storm, the world faces climate change induced collapse. Once You Know, by director Emmanuel Cappellin, is a poetic and poignant exploration of how four of the world’s leading climate scientists and energy experts find truth, chaos, and hope in their work. Through interviews that take him around our planet onboard a container-ship, Emmanuel, who previously worked on the world-release HUMAN, asks “What is meaningful work on the way down?” This haunting question challenges everything he takes for granted – from growth-based democracies to personal freedoms – and ultimately brings him back home, in Saillans, his Alps mountain village, where meaningful work towards collective resilience and social justice begins.