7th of August + The Last Generation

The Last Generation

Janka wakes up every day thinking about the end of the world. According to scientists, 2030 will be the year we trigger chain reaction resulting in the end of our civilization. This burden pushes Janka to take radical action. She begins to understand she will have to make a choice. Involvement in the climate movement dominates her everyday life; work and studies are relegated to the background. Activism turns out to be a form of action that gives her strength and hope. Among the moonlike landscape of an open-pit coal mine, she realises how far she will go to stop this. From this moment despair ends, and tactics begin.

7th of August

A homophobic tsunami engulfed Poland in 2020. Vilified by the ruling political party, the LGBT+ community became the target of an intense campaign supported by the Catholic church and public media. The wave crested on August 7, when the community said enough is enough, demonstrating on the streets of Warsaw in defense of the activist Margot. On that day, the power of rainbow solidarity clashed with brutal police aggression, resulting in the orchestrated arrests of 48 participants of the protest. These included the protagonists of the film – Kajetan, Kamila, Krem as well as Julia and her partner. Their stories help viewers understand and feel the price paid by Poland's non-heteronormative community for societal homophobia and transphobia. It also describes the situation of the LGBT+ movement in Poland. August 7 may go down in history. Did it really awaken "queer rage" in Poland? Listen to the voices of the people in the film to find out.