Duty of Care – The Climate Trials

  • November 26, 2022 / 14:00

Director: Nic Balthazar
Belgium, 2022, 57'
with Turkish and English subtitles

A true crime documentary about courts, climate change, and the unknown lawyer(s) who might just save the world. Duty of Care tells the exclusive, inside story of Roger Cox, the first and only lawyer to have successfully sued a government and an oil giant in landmark court cases that established catastrophic climate change can be made illegal. Roger’s ground-breaking cases against the Dutch government and oil major Shell established that those in power owe a duty of care to citizens to avoid catastrophic climate change, stunning legal experts and sending shockwaves through parliaments and corporate boardrooms around the world, and led to a wave of international climate cases. This is a character-driven journey through the highs and lows of his trials, featuring a cast of creative lawyers, activists, and ordinary citizens pursuing what they see as the legal showdown of the century. Their story is set against interviews with world-leading experts on the principles of justice that can be applied to the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.

10 Billion Mouths

10 Billion Mouths

The Power of Activism

The Power of Activism

Different Village

Different Village

A World to Shape

A World to Shape

Hell or Clean Water

Hell or Clean Water

Impact Networks: Creating Change in a Complex World

Impact Networks: Creating Change in a Complex World

Godney Marshes: Rewilding our Future

Godney Marshes: Rewilding our Future

Dreams, Effort and Pandemic

Dreams, Effort and Pandemic

Dive Tierra Bomba Dive

Dive Tierra Bomba Dive

Animal

Animal

Green Nettle

Green Nettle

Living in a Postcard

Living in a Postcard

Bigger Than Us

Bigger Than Us

The Big Reset – Cities

The Big Reset – Cities

Feeling The Apocalypse

Feeling The Apocalypse

Among Roots

Among Roots

The North Drift

The North Drift

La Frontiére

La Frontiére

Duty of Care – The Climate Trials

Duty of Care – The Climate Trials

Menstrual Man

Menstrual Man

The Last Tourist

The Last Tourist

Tandem Local

Tandem Local

Total Disaster

Total Disaster

The Seeds of Vandana Shiva

The Seeds of Vandana Shiva

For Tomorrow

For Tomorrow

Good News from the Skies

Good News from the Skies

Inspired by the exhibition And Now the Good News, which focusing on the relationship between mass media and art, we prepared horoscope readings based on the chapters of the exhibition. Using the popular astrological language inspired by the effects of the movements of celestial bodies on people, these readings with references to the works in the exhibition make fictional future predictions inspired by the horoscope columns that we read in the newspapers with the desire to receive good news about our day. 

Symbols

Symbols

Pera Museum’s Cold Front from the Balkans exhibition curated by Ali Akay and Alenka Gregorič brings together contemporary artists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.

The Ottoman Way of Serving Coffee

The Ottoman Way of Serving Coffee

Coffee was served with much splendor at the harems of the Ottoman palace and mansions. First, sweets (usually jam) was served on silverware, followed by coffee serving. The coffee jug would be placed in a sitil (brazier), which had three chains on its sides for carrying, had cinders in the middle, and was made of tombac, silver or brass. The sitil had a satin or silk cover embroidered with silver thread, tinsel, sequin or even pearls and diamonds.