THE GREAT GREEN WALL

International Perspective

With executive production by Fernando Meirelles (director of films like City of God, The Constant Gardener and The Two Popes, which will close the 43rd Mostra) the film accompanies Inna Modja, Malian musician and activist, on an epic journey along Africa`s Great Green Wall —an ambitious initiative to grow an 8,000 km “wall” of trees stretching across the entire width of the continent to restore land and provide a future for millions of people. Traversing Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger and Ethiopia, Modja follows the burgeoning Great Green Wall through Africa’s Sahel region —one of the most vulnerable places on Earth, where temperatures are rising 1.5 times faster than the global average— laying bare the acute consequences of severe land degradation and accelerating climate change. The Wall aims to counteract increasing desertification, drought, resource scarcity, radicalization, conflict and migration.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA