The Play of Everyman

In 2016, two environmental organizations sued the Norwegian state on suspicion that it was violating the constitution by continuing to license oil drilling in the Barents Sea – specifically, the guaranteed right to a healthy environment for everyone and the responsible as well as sustainable extraction of natural resources. Thanks to the exclusive opportunity to shoot in the courtroom during the appeal proceedings in 2019 and 2020, we get a glimpse of the events that the Norwegian media has referred to as the “climate trial of the century” and we can learn that political interests, thinly disguised by an environmental agenda, still triumph over the respect for the future. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)