
Fossil Free
A divestment movement is betting that banks will listen where politicians haven't. The film follows campaigners pushing pension funds, universities, and churches to pull their money out of coal, oil, and gas, from Ella Lagé lobbying Berlin officials over the city's fossil fuel holdings to activists pressing Dutch pension giant ABP, whose CEO Corien Wortmann-Kool and campaigner Vatan Hüzeir both appear on camera. In New York, the online platform 350.org works to link these local fights into a single global campaign. The film's sharper turn comes from the finance side: former Goldman Sachs quantitative trading head Bob Litterman and warnings from HSBC, Citibank, and the Bank of England about a looming 'carbon bubble' suggest fossil fuel assets are overpriced and financially risky, not just ethically fraught. That argument, rather than moral appeal, is what gets some institutions to listen. Shot across Berlin, Amsterdam, and New York, the film treats divestment as a live financial calculation as much as a protest movement.