Inventing Tomorrow
Friday 20 September 2019, 2:00pm
City of Glasgow College, Glasgow

Communities across the world are bearing the brunt of climate chaos and environmental degradation. In Inventing Tomorrow, hope takes the form of a group of young students, from Indonesia, India, Mexico and Hawaii, as they prepare for ISEF, the world’s largest high-school science competition.

Inventing Tomorrow
Laura Nix | 2018
United States | 87 min | 8+ years | English, Indonesian, Spanish with English subtitles | Subtitles

Screened as part of TOAFF19

Communities across the world are bearing the brunt of climate chaos and environmental degradation. Change is desperately needed, but how do such communities adapt to existing problems? In Inventing Tomorrow, hope takes the form of a group of young students, from Indonesia, India, Mexico and Hawaii, as they prepare for ISEF, the world’s largest high-school science competition.

Pink Saris
Kim Longinotto | 2010
United Kingdom | 100 min | 12+ years | Hindi with English subtitles | Subtitles

Screened as part of TOAFF11

The leader of the Pink Gang, a group of young Indian women who are combating violence against women, brings her own brand of justice to the streets of Uttar Pradesh

Powerless
Fahad Mustafa, Deepti Kakkar | 2013
India | 80 min | Hindi with English subtitles | Subtitles

Screened as part of TOAFF13

The city administration of Kanpur, India, wages an uphill battle to clamp down on power-theft as a group of young men steal electricity from the rich to provide free connections in the cities impoverished neighbourhoods

Light Fly, Fly High
Beathe Hofseth & Susann Østigaard | 2013
India, Norway | 80 min | 15+ years | Tamil with English subtitles | Subtitles

Screened as part of TOAFF14

As a young Indian girl born outside caste, Thulasi is trying to box her way out of poverty. But the struggle for an independent life is hardest outside the ring.