This is a film screening organised by SaltSpace Cooperative on the eve of the COP26 Conference, as part of What The COP?: Take One Action film festival, taking place across Scotland to explore climate issues in the lead-up to the UN Climate Conference being hosted in Glasgow in November.

Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and National Lottery funding from the BFI.

If National Governments can’t solve the climate crisis, who will?

Not Without Us follows seven grassroots activists from around the world to the 21st U.N. Climate Talks in Paris. The effects of climate change on their lives reveal what’s at stake if a strong agreement to limit carbon emissions is not reached. Yet, the landmark Paris Accord, signed by 192 nations, is non-binding and fails to mention the main cause of global climate change: fossil fuels. How could this be?

Not Without Us connects the dots. Between the inability of the U.N. process to address climate change and Big Oil’s control over governments. Between the greatest economic inequality in the history of mankind and the oncoming climate disaster. Between a fossil fuel driven economy and the 1% who control it.

Not Without Us shows the importance of grassroots groups to empower mass movements to create the system change we need. Real change that comes not top down, but bottom up, organised by social movements to harness the great power we have: humanity.