Shorts: Folk Futures Q&A

Fusion and experimentation mark both subject and cinematic form in this visionary collection of responses to shifting environmental conditions. Across global contexts, myth, folklore and traditional wisdom serve future-oriented visions, while communal resilience, youth voices and vast landscapes take centre stage. In Pakistan, an ancient practice is revived as a contemporary climate solution, while in Greenland, Inuit youth navigate identity, tradition and future aspirations as they come of age. A young girl contemplates the end of time amid a decaying desert landscape in the American Southwest, and folklore takes musical forms in genre-defying ecological tales from India and Czechia.