THULETUVALU (Feature-DOC, 2014)

FESTIVALS (until 21.August 2015):

2014

Visions du Réel Nyon/Switzerland, International Competition
HotDocs,Toronto/Canada, Official Selection
Dokfest, München/Germany, International Competition
CinemAmbiente, Torino/Italy, Film of the Closing Night
Peace&Love Festival, Borlänge, Falun/Sweden
Festivaldelfilm, Locarno/Switzerland, Panorama Swiss Films
1stClimateChangeFestival, Stockholm
„To future with love“/Sweden
H20 Environmental Film Festival, Moscow/Russia
Bergen International Film Festival, Norway, Official Selection
Reykjavik International Film Festival, Island, Official Selection
Aspen International Film Festival, USA, Official Selection
Margret Mead Film Festival, NY/USA, Official Selection
GuthGafa International Film Festival, Ireland, Official Selection
EscalesDocumentairesLaRochelle/France
CPH:DOX, Copenhagen/Denmark, Official Selection
CPH:ON:TOUR, Denmark
21st Barcelona Environmental Film Festival, Spain
Starz Denver Film Festival, USA, Official Selection
GREENPERSPECTIVE, Cabo San Lucas/Mexico
St.Louis IFF, USA, Official Selection
Third Anthropological Film Festival
The Jerusalem Cinematheque, Israel

FESTIVALS 2015

Anchorage International Film Festival, Official Selection
San Cristobal de las Casas Film Festival, Mexico, Opening Film
Solothurner Filmtage, Switzerland
St. Andrews Green Film Festival, UK
DocPoint, Helsinki/Finland, Official Selection
DocPoint, Tallinn/Estonia, Official Selection
San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival/, USA
Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Mexiko, Official Selection
ZagrebDOX, Croatia, Official Selection
OneWorld International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival,
Prague/CzechRepublic, Official Selection
Wanstead&Woodford Friends of the Earth
Climate Week 2015, London
Environmental Documentary Night MESYM, KualaLumpur/Malaysia
Thessaloniki Film Festival, Greece, Official Selection
Festival Internationalde Films“PêcheursduMonde", Lorient/France
DC Environmental Film Festival, Washington/USA, Official Selection
4th Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival, SaoPaulo/Brazil, Official Selection
Ecofalante Filmtour Brazil
Dagfilmfest, Turkey
Environmental Film Festival, Yale/USA
InternationalSchoolKualaLumpur/Malaysia
Cinema Planeta, Cuernavaca/Mexico, Official Selection
Maremostra, Mallorca/Spain
Docville, Leuven/Belgium, Official Selection
Human Rights Arts&Film Festival, Melbourne/Australia
Polynesian Film Festival, Wellington/NewZealand
5th San Francisco Green Film Festival, USA, Official Selection
Weekof Sustainability, Lorient/France
Kino Otok1Isola Cinema International Film Festival, Slovenia, Official Selection
International Bledfilmfestival in Slovenia
Northside Festival, Brooklyn, NewYork/USA, Official Selection
Papa Neuguinea Human Rights Film Festival
5th. Swiss Film Panorama, SaoPaulo/Brazil
University of Tasmania/Australia
FIFIG, GroixIslans, Brittany/France
Savonlinna´s Nature Film Festival, Finland
Environmental Film Festival Melbourne, Canberra,Hobart/Australia
Cinemigrante, Buenos Aires/Argentina
Barichara Green Film Festival, 'Santander'/'Colombia
EcranVert, LaRochelle&Charente Maritime/France
Musée de Bretagne/France
Herbides Int. FF, Scotland
Borneo Eco Film Festival, Borneo
Festival Cultural CiclodeIdeas, Cuautla, Morelos/Mexico
GuthGafa International Film Festival, Ireland
Kansas International Film Festival, USA
Résistance Durable, Lille/France
OneWorld Documentary Film Festival, Bratislava/Slovakia
5th Human Rights Film Festival Ankara, Istanbul/Turkey
Waimeo Ocean Film Festival, Hawai/USA
Div.Screenins Development Education and Awareness Raising FIFAM/France

Thule, Greenland—also called Qaanaaq—is one of the northernmost towns in the world. As the climate warms and the ice caps begin to melt, the gentle balance of life for the people of this community is in jeopardy. On the other side of the globe, the melting ice caps are raising sea levels around the Polynesian island nation of Tuvalu, threatening to wipe the island right off the map. Though a world apart, these two communities are intricately connected as environmental balance begins to tip and traditional ways of life are threatened. ThuleTuvalu is a stunning documentary addressing the high price of a hundred years of development and how two very different communities are now bound together in facing an uncertain future.

PROTAGONISTS:

Rasmus Avike, 46,
is a hunter feeding a family of six who doesn‘t know what he will do when he no longer can hunt.

Lars Jeremiassen, 65,
has raised four children hunting and believes that humans, like animals, will adapt to these changes. He just doesn‘t yet know how.

Patrick Malaki, 42,
fisherman and canoe builder, father of three, doesn‘t believe that God will one day let Tuvalu become submerged.

Takuao Malaki, 44,
teacher, Patrick’s wife, wishes that her children have the chance to emi- grate and live in a safe place.

Kaipati Vevea, 41,
officer responsible for the flora on the island of Nanumea, father of three, is certain that Tuvalu will be submerged and wants to emi- grate with his family.

Vevea Tepou, 71,
father of 21 kids, first munici- pal president of Nanumea, believes that the govern- ment of Tuvalu must search for a place to relocate the country‘s entire people to.

Foini Tulafono, 42,
former teacher, left Tuvalu with her family of seven due to fears about rising sealevels and now lives in New Zealand.

MAIN CREW:
Script & Director: Matthias von Gunten
Producer: Valentin Greutert, HesseGreutert Film
Image: Pierre Mennel
Sound: Valentino Vigniti
Editors: Caterina Mona, Claudio Cea
Sounddesign: Roland Widmer
Music: Marcel Vaid

PRODUCER:
Valentin Greutert
A Filmcompany
Langstrasse 14
CH - 8004 Zürich
+41 43 322 18 22
vg@afilmcompany.ch

(former:
HesseGreutert Film AG
Badenerstrasse 129
8004 Zürich
Schweiz
+41 43 322 18 22
v.greutert@hessegreutert.ch
www.hessegreutert.ch)

Hot Docs, Toronto, Heather Haynes:
Thule, Greenland—also called Qaanaaq—is one of the northernmost towns in the world. As the climate warms and the ice caps begin to melt, the gentle balance of life for the people of this community is in jeopardy. On the other side of the globe, the melting ice caps are raising sea levels around the Polynesian island nation of Tuvalu, threatening to wipe the island right off the map. Though a world apart, these two communities are intricately connected as environmental balance begins to tip and traditional ways of life are threatened. ThuleTuvalu is a stunning documentary addressing the high price of a hundred years of development and how two very different communities are now bound together in facing an uncertain future. Heather Haynes

Hot Docs, Toronto, Heather Haynes