The official opening of the film festival, will be held at the University of Botswana's Faculty of Business Studies auditorium, on Thursday. The festival will be officially opened by the Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, Ponatshego Kedikilwe, and for the first time the opening film will be screened at the university, and the rest of the films will be screened at the AV Centre at Maruapula School. The opening will be co-hosted by The Department of Environmental Science, the British Council, British High Commission and DITSHWANELO.
The opening film is titled The Age Of Stupid, a new documentary-drama-animation hybrid from director Franny Armstrong and Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek. Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlewaite stars as the founder of The Global Archive in the devastated world of 2055. The archive is located in the (now melted) Arctic, preserving all of humanity's achievements in the hope that the planet, ravaged by runaway climate change, might one day be habitable again. He watches 'archive' footage from 2008 and asks: Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?
