This animated film (winner of the Goya Award for Best Animated Feature, 2025) focuses on three women forced into exile due to climate change. In Kenya, Tanit migrates with her children from the dry, uninhabitable region of Turkana to Nairobi. In India, Shaila leaves her small island of Ghoramara, which is shrinking due to rising sea levels, to work as a housekeeper in Dubai. And Valeria flies with her children to Paris after a hurricane destabilizes life on the French island of Saint Martin. All three women are hoping for a better life, but in their new environments they face a wall of bureaucracy as well as sexual and other forms of exploitation.
Based on Baute’s live-action inquiry, Climate Exodus, the film merges highly intimate and personal narratives from women across the globe forced to leave their homelands when natural forces render them uninhabitable.
Inspired by real women , the film uses animation to raise awareness about the consequences of global warming and remind us that climate change is no joke, and it does so in an intelligent, raw, elegant and tremendously tough way, showing us the before and after of three families who see their lives crumble in a matter of seconds. It’s not easy to see , especially for us women, but it’s necessary to raise awareness among all of us, regardless of gender, about what’s happening outside our bubble.
Enid Roman Almansa, Cinemania
David Baute
Spain/Panama
2024
In Arabic, Bengali, English, French and Spanish with English subtitles
Best Animated Feature, Goya Awards 2025
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Credits
Executive Producer
Elsa Hernandez, Anna Eulalia Ruiz, Aishly Manrique
Screenwriter
Yaiza Berrocal
Cinematography
María Pulido
ANIMATION
Pepe Sánchez
Editor
Clara Martínez Malagelada
Original Music
Diego Navarro
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