
Climate Change and Displacement: How People Are Being Forced to Flee Their Homes
Climate displacement has become a daily reality rather than a future risk, and this film follows three countries confronting it in different ways. In Bangladesh, cyclones, rising seas, and glacial meltwater from the Himalayas pushed around 2.4 million people from their homes in 2024 alone, and the film visits new model villages built for communities displaced by soil erosion and salinization. In Colombia, lawyers secured a historic ruling recognizing the country's first legally acknowledged victims of climate displacement, separating it from displacement caused by armed conflict. In the Pacific, whole nations face disappearing under rising seas, and the film shows leaders building regional solidarity while wrestling with what it means to leave land tied to generations of history and identity. Throughout, the film returns to a legal gap: the Geneva Convention does not recognize climate change as grounds for asylum, leaving an estimated 70,000 people displaced by climate every day with no formal international protection.