FUTURE COUNCIL
Australia / 2024 / 80 min / DCP

Director : Damon Gameau

Production : Nick Batzias, Virginia Whitwell, Damon Gameau
Distribution : L'atelier d'Images

Melbourne Festival 2024
Introduced by Hugues Peysson
Premiere. Released in 2026

Damon Gameau takes eight schoolchildren from around the globe to take a ride on his vegetable-oil-powered, bright-yellow school bus. An unforgettable field trip, a road trip across Europe in search of solutions to the climate crisis. Travelling across Europe, this colourful touring party confront multinational uber-polluters, talk to politicians, discover cutting-edge work at eco-minded organisations and marvel at the natural splendour of some of the continent’s most beautiful forests and lakes – a coming-of-age journey that dares to imagine a brighter future. It paints an optimistic picture of what might be possible if adults actually listened to the children who will inherit an (increasingly uninhabitable) Earth.

Damon Gameau

The Australian actor and director has starred in numerous feature films including The Tracker, Dancing Queens, Save Your Legs!, Charlie’s Country and was nominated for an AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Balibo. He also played in various TV series including Going Home, Love My Way, Underbelly, Secrets & Lies, The Kettering Incident. His short film Animal Beatbox won the Tropfest short film festival worldwide. That Sugar Film, his debut feature film as a director, screened in Culinary Cinema at the 2015 Berlinale, won an AACTA Award for Best Feature Length Documentary and was a hit in Australian cinemas. In 2019, his second documentary 2040 was again a hit..