Finite: The Climate of Change

Concerned citizens in Germany step forward to save an ancient forest from one of Europe’s

biggest coal mines, whilst they form an unlikely alliance with a frustrated community in rural

northeast England who are forced into action to protect their homes from a new opencast coal

mine.

Inside the core of the climate movement, concerned citizens in Germany put their bodies on

the line to save the ancient Hambach forest from one of Europe’s biggest coal mines.

Every year since the 1970s, a section of the forest has been cut by Europe’s biggest CO2

emitter, energy giant RWE. Now just 10% remains. Robin, Indigo and Clumsy are part of a

secretive community of dedicated activists who have spent years living in self-built treehouses

to halt the chainsaws. They are heading for a final showdown with RWE and the police to

decide whether the forest is wiped off the map forever, or if the all powerful fossil fuel industry

can be stopped before we fall off the cliff of climate breakdown.

The activists form an unlikely alliance with a frustrated but tight-knit community in rural

northeast England who have spent 30 years fighting plans for a new coal mine next to their

homes. Julia, June and their neighbours have exhausted all legal avenues to protect the

beautiful valley where their children grew up. With mining about to begin, the community feel

they have no choice but to occupy the valley to halt work commencing.

FINITE is a cinematic, timely insider’s view of the world of direct action and climate activism; a

raw, shocking, intimate and emotional insight into the David and Goliath battle between

ordinary people and fossil fuel corporations. A localised chapter of the story that will define

humanity. FINITE lays bare what the green leaders of the world are really doing to our natural

environment but also how collective action can turn the tide against all odds.