Guardians of the Earth

The moment we decided to save our planet

Welcome to the climate summit to save the earth: In just eleven days, 20,000 representatives from 195 countries are to meet in Paris to agree on the first global agreement against climate change. A treaty that will affect every human being on earth, living or unborn – a pact that will determine whether our species has any future at all. Director Filip Antoni Malinowski shoots exclusively behind the scenes for his documentary. This unique insight is highly emotional and bears witness to the most intense conflicts of interest: rich against poor, victims against profiteers of climate change. Christiana Figueres, Secretary General of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, has tears in her eyes at the cold-heartedness with which so many talk about climate change. And above all, the off-commentary of the future US President Donald Trump is already hovering menacingly above it all: A global climate agreement? "One of the dumbest things I've ever seen".

It's the eleventh hour, as this stirring documentary on climate change and saving our world leaves no doubt. "Guardians of the Earth" turns the revolutionary 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference into an electrifying political thriller. Who are the people who will decide the future of our planet? Who is a superhero and who is a supervillain? This film is an important contemporary document and provides decisive impulses for discussion.