Life on the Burning Earth

Korea | TV 50min*2 | 4K | Color

Logline

Harsh Survival Stories of Humanity Struggling with the Runaway Climate Disaster 

Synopsis

There are those who face disaster every day. Forests burn, oceans rise, lands dry up, seasons disappear. People who are fighting for survival on the front lines of the rampant climate disaster. Their living testimony of the climate crisis will become the story of all of us in the near future.

Director's Statement

1.5 ℃, known as the Maginot Line of Climate Disaster, collapsed for the first time last year. 2024 was the hottest year since the Industrial Revolution. A signal of human-induced extinction, The disasters caused by raging water and fire are threatening the survival of humanity everywhere. This documentary is the story of those who are fighting for survival on the front lines of the climate crisis. They are witnesses and testifiers of the climate crisis. We must listen to their cries. Because in the near future, their stories will become the stories of all of us.

Director CHOI Suyoung

Director SONG Chanyang

Producer LEE Sungbum