Tomorrow(2015)
dir. Cyril Dion, Mélanie Laurent
A road trip through solutions, not doom.
Where to watch: Free on Kanopy, rent on Apple TVLetterboxd ↗
A French documentary that skips the catastrophe reel and goes looking for what's already working. A small crew travels through ten countries, visiting people who are rebuilding agriculture, energy, the economy, democracy and education from the ground up, from urban farms and local currencies to community-run energy and radically different schools.
Why it’s here
The punk move is the refusal of doom: the film treats despair as a luxury and goes out to document people who simply started doing the thing, crowdfunding its own production on the way. The pedagogy is in the structure. Five chapters make the systems visible (food, energy, money, power, learning) and show that each one can be redesigned at human scale, which is a useful habit of mind for a young person who has only heard that everything is broken. It is optimistic by design, and says less about the political and economic power that blocks these ideas at scale, so watch it as a catalogue of possibility rather than a full account of how change happens.
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