Don’t Let The Sunny Weather Fool You (2019)
All over the world people are affected by (the effects of) climate change, particularly those living in coastal regions or whose employment depend on agriculture. For her film “Don’t Let The Sunny Weather Fool You” Guusje Meeuwissen spent nearly three months Aparri, North-Luzon (the Philippines), where she followed the lives of both a farmer and a fisherman. How do their lives and livelihoods change over time? And what other challenges do they face? Her film shows the intimate human-nature relationship of these two men and thereby foregrounds their local adaptive capabilities.
The film ‘Don’t Let The Sunny Weather Fool You’ gives us a deeper understanding of what human-nature relationships mean and how they exist. What is the meaning of work for these two men? What happens when your working environment changes, while you depend so much on your environment? And in what ways are they already adapting lives and livelihoods to these changing environments? In the end, the film does not only tell us something about the environment we live in, but it tells us something about ourselves too.
Official Selection RAI Film Festival (2021)
The RAI Film festival is an annual film festival organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute Of Great Britain And Ireland. The festival screens documentaries from around the world that engage with themes of culture & society. It has a special focus on anthropological and ethnographic films.
