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INFERNO WITHOUT BORDERS

By Sandrine CHARRUYER, Sophie LEPOWIC

Documentary - Completed 2021

The apocalyptic 2019-2020 Australian bush fires were a dire warning: respect the environment and listen to indigenous wisdom, or our world will become a living hell.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Documentary, Female director
- Countries
- AUSTRALIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 85 mn
- Director(s)
- Sandrine CHARRUYER, Sophie LEPOWIC
- Writer(s)
- Sophie LEPOWIC, Sandrine CHARRUYER
- Producer(s)
- Laura SIVIS (Courage Films), Sandrine CHARRUYER (Aniphietom), Sophie LEPOWIC
- Synopsis
- The unprecedented bushfire crisis that struck Australia during the 2019-2020 summer sparked numerous controversies and its abnormality revealed underlying major issues with bush management and Australia’s part in contributing to global warming.
  
  The nation-wide disaster incited by prolonged drought, unusually high temperatures and severe winds resulted in the worst bushfires in world history.
  
  Australia has a fire dependent ecosystem that needs fire to regenerate. This means the landscape will not regenerate without it but it needs the right type - a low intensity fire that keeps the bush healthy without destroying everything.
  
  Climate disruption parallels unprecedented wildfires that are becoming more frequent and more extreme; they now span continents with a ferocity that Australian fire-fighters had never observed before.
  
  The government has ignored the obvious symptoms of the environmental crisis. Moreover, the national contribution to global climate chaos is significant, with Australia being one of the largest coal exporting countries in the world.
  
  Australian land is burning, and scientists are still searching for answers.
  
  Given that current fire management strategies aren’t working, is it time to revisit the traditional ones?
  
  Experts in politics, ecology and land management stress the importance of adjusting to the new reality of extreme weather conditions and most importantly adopting methods to reduce global warming.
  
  Could the answer to preserving the land and its natural resources be found in Indigenous lore?
  
  Can our past save our future?