Join Watershed's Environment Group for an evening of short films that celebrate community, climate action and storytelling to inspire change.
We have chosen these films as they showcase the human connection to water in different ways and inspire us to think about our own connection to water.
We will be screening the following films:
MAJI (Water) (1 min 30 sec, Filmmaker Cesar Diaz Melendez)
A short journey to discover the importance of water in our lives.
The Water Holds Me (2 mins, Filmmaker Lily Mae Kroese)
Drawn from research with the wild swimming community across the UK, this short film is based on the stories of women who dip, dive and swim in rivers, lakes and seas.
There Will Come Soft Rains (14 mins, Written & Directed by Elham Ehsas)
A daughter digs up her father’s grave to move him to higher ground.
A River Holds a Perfect Memory (17 mins, Filmmaker Hope Pearl Strickland)
This film meanders gently across waterways in Jamaica, through leisure activities such as rafting on the Martha Brae River and a night-time boat trip in Falmouth’s bioluminescent Lagoon. In the UK, archival footage tracks industrial impact upon the landscape in Northern England - as water becomes a resource and a reservoir is constructed in Rochdale.
Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and Touchstones, Rochdale with support from HOME, Manchester, supported using public funding from Arts Council England.
Rock Pool (17 mins, A Film by Soup Audiovisual)
From murky kelp forests to scallop burial grounds and a UV lit cosmic expanse, Rock Pool's non-narrative flow draws its audience through the circadian cycles that turn the worlds beneath our feet.
Salt (6 mins, Written & Directed by Mateusz Miszczynski)
As two boys float together on the Dead Sea, they enter a poetic dream realm connected to the spirit of the Palestinian people.
Introduced by Watershed's Environment Group.
Followed by a Q&A with Laura McCutcheon, the BAFTA winning producer of C4 factual drama series Dirty Business, currently embarking on a new career in social justice law, Simon Hunter, CEO of Bristol Avon Rivers Trust, and Elham Ehsas, the filmmaker behind There Will Come Soft Rains (one of the films in the showcase). This will be hosted by Jess Wheeler, BFI NETWORK Talent Executive and a member of Watershed's Environment Group.
This screening and discussion features Descriptive Subtitles and BSL interpretation.