Becoming Roosi
Dir. Margit Lillak • 2025 • 84 min • Estonia, Germany • 12+
For 10 years the director documented Roosi’s coming-of-age – from a childhood in a remote eco-community to climate advocacy protests in the city. Questions about parental choices alternate with searching for identity, personal challenges, creative experiments and generational responsibility in combating devastating climate change. The film is an emotionally subtle story about anxiety in the face of inevitable change, the complicated relationship between children and parents, and the determination to find one’s own way in the chaos of the adult world. Alongside serious questions, though, there is no lack of irony and humour – unpredictable situations and sharp conversation with her parents reveal Roosi to be a cheerful and independent personality. The film Becoming Roosi speaks to the freedom to choose one’s own path in life and to consider how much of your parents’ convictions and mission to absorb into your own life.
Record-breaking heat, drought, unprecedented storms, flooding, uncontrollable forest fires are no longer future predictions, but everyday life. The European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA) states: today’s political decisions will determine the survival of children and youth, their health and access to clean drinking water and food supplies. Globally some 70% of young people are concerned about climate change, while in Latvia in 2020, a European Commission study found this concern in only 23% of youth. Within Latvian society in general worry about climate change is relatively low – in a 2021 Special Eurobarometer survey only 59% of inhabitant viewed it as a serious problem, the lowest indicator in the EU.
Screening
-
Sala Culture Centre
Tuesday 8 Sep
13:00
Tickets - at the counter -
Splendid Palace
Wednesday 9 Sep
13:30
-
Splendid Palace
Thursday 10 Sep
13:30
