Saving Walden’s World
country, year
USA, 2020
genre
documentary
running time
89’
directed by
Jim Merkel
languages
English
subtitles
Slovene subtitles
about the film
When a young arms dealer discovers that his work is harming families in less affluent societies, he faces a crisis of his personal values. He embarks on a decades-long journey to make the world a better place. Saving Walden’s World is a film that follows Jim Merkel as he raises Walden, an budding scientist, on an off-the-grid homestead, and wonders: could the very people his work was directed against in a previous life hold the key to a sustainable planet? What follows is a journey to meet powerful women who want to transform society so that it works for everyone. Kerala, Cuba and Slovenia are far from rich utopias, but they offer women free education, access to contraception, maternity leave, childcare, dental and medical care – services that most of the American working class can’t even imagine. And with the Earth’s temperatures rising, the world is facing an even greater challenge.
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