Synopsis
“Tomorrow’s Power” is a feature length documentary that showcases three communities around the world and their responses to economic and environmental emergencies they are facing. In the war-torn, oil-rich Arauca province in Colombia, communities have been building a peace process from the bottom up. In Germany activists are pushing the country to fully divest from fossil-fuel extraction and complete its transition to renewable energy. In Gaza health practitioners are harnessing solar power to battle daily life-threatening energy blackouts in hospitals.
A word from Tënk
“You can cut all the flowers, but you can’t stop Spring from coming.” Filmmaker Amy Miller’s fourth documentary opens with this Pablo Neruda quote, which neatly encapsulates the objective of her documentary in defense of social justice.
In the film, the director brings us into the daily lives of men and women dedicated to fighting the environmental threats they face. Far from mere witnesses, these individuals have organized into peaceful communities to find and propose sustainable solutions. These touching characters are young people, hungry for hope, who believe in humanity’s future and the future of our coal-ravaged planet.
Three continents. Three struggles.
We see examples like the life-saving solar panels on hospitals in Gaza. In Germany, we see the government approaching residents to offer them the possibility of green villages (rather than the other way around). Hope is not dead! An environmental approach is necessarily a social one. Amy Miller helps us to see a tangible and beneficial link between social justice and the climate issues of today that we hope to make yesterday’s news.
Christian Mathieu Fournier
Filmmaker
