66 METRES - RISING SEA LEVELS

STEIGENDE PEGEL – WENN DAS WASSER KOMMT

By Alexander LAHL, Max MOENCH

NEW DOCS - as SALES All rights, World

Environmental - Completed 2019

Rising seas will be one of the biggest challenges we face in the next few centuries. Island states will disappear, coastlines will shift. On the basis of scientists’ predictions, billions of dollars are being invested in coastal protection measures. But not everything can be protected.

Festivals
& Awards

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (online) 2021
Doc Market
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Environmental, Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • GERMAN, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 52 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Alexander LAHL, Max MOENCH
    • Producer(s)
    • Alexander LAHL (mobyDOK), Max MOENCH (mobyDOK)
    • Synopsis
    • The polar ice caps are melting and water is on its way. If all the ice in Antarctica and Greenland melted, the seal level would rise by over 66 metres. Rising sea levels will be one of the biggest challenges we face in the next few centuries. Not only small island states will disappear from nautical charts, countries on the mainland will also be affected. In some regions, the impact of sea level rise on society is already apparent. Economically important places are protected, less important areas remain unprotected and millions of people are being evacuated. States have to decide. Coastal protection systems cost billions. This film reveals not only the results of the latest research, but also the role scientists play in this whole complex. Their forecasts are crucial to investments, and just a few centimetres can decide on how billions of dollars are spent. But no scientist can predict exactly what will happen in the future. We show how individual scientists cope with the burden of their responsibility and reveal a billion-dollar business that promotes quite different interests. The film takes us to places where these conflicts are already reality in Indonesia, Denkmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, the USA and the UK.