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Following the debate started by Al Gore’s “AnInconvenient Truth” last year, “The 11th Hour” isa piece on environmental threats; starting withthe dire state that Mother Earth is in, movingon to examine the reasons for it and endingup in hope, with possible solutions of how torecycle our assets. Leonardo DiCaprio guidesthe audience with straightforward narration,holding the puzzle of information together.Writer-director sisters, Leila Conners Petersenand Nadia Conners, who’s production company“creates media to support and sustain civilsociety”, have turned 150 hours of interviewswith 50 experts and activists into a one and ahalf-hour journey through contrasting pictures.Natural beauty mixes with doomsday montagesof melting arctic ice, acid rain and wideningdeserts. Among the talking heads are theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, former president ofthe USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, and former CIAdirector James Woolsey.“The 11th Hour” shines its spotlight on thedangerous Western culture, emphasizingthat the only way to save the planet is tomake fundamental changes to our lifestyle ofrelentless consumption.

Face2Face:
Sunday 18 November
SKANDIA 14.00
WITH: Barbara Evaeus (WWF), Stuart Pledger (Green Cross Sweden)

Premiere Status
Nordic Premiere: Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio, Stephen Hawking, Kenny Ausubel: Producer
Chuck Castleberry, Leonardo DiCaprio, Leila Conners Petersen, Brian Gerber: Script
Nadia Conners, Leonardo DiCaprio, Leila Conners Petersen: Cinematography
Peter Youngblood Hills, Andrew Rowlands, Brian Knappenberger: Music
Jean-Pascal Beintus, Eric Avery: Spoken language
English