TOA Film Club Oban, 6x monthly environmental justice film screenings + discussions (from October 2023 to March 2024) to nurture momentum and empower more actions from Oban towards a fairer and more sustainable world.

At Oban Phoenix Cinema, £3 each, all welcome. Ticket will be available at Oban Phoenix Cinema.

An exciting addition to this season is – there will be a few free pre-film sessions at Oban Youth Cafe for youths (10-24 yo) to chat about film topics over snacks from Go Naked Veg. **No session in October. More details to be announced soon – stay tuned!

Each screening is followed by an approx. 30min informal reflection around the film with Dr Leslie Mabon (Lecturer in Environmental Systems, The Open University).

TOA Film Club Oban is led by WAGON with support from Oban Youth Cafe, Oban Phoenix Cinema, Dr Leslie Mabon and Go Naked Veg. Funded by Oban Common Good Fund. Part of Take One Action Film Festivals’s Film Club program.

Exciting line-up (as of Jan 2024):

5.15pm, Fri 6 Oct 2023
Living Proof
2021, 8+ years, 98min
A stunning archive documentary that looks for the roots of the climate crisis in Scotland’s post-war history. Descriptive subtitles and audio description are available for this film.

5.15pm, Fri 3 Nov 2023
The Workers Cup
2017, 12+ years, 89min
Inside Qatar’s labor camps, the African and Asian migrant workers building 2022 World Cup facilities compete in a football tournament of their own.
* Free snack session for youth (10-24 yo) at Oban Youth Cafe 4-5pm.

5.15pm, Fri 1 Dec 2023
Artifishal
2019, 12+ years, 83min
All the way from California to Norway, the film explores the threats to wild fish and asks questions about how we value wild animals.
* Free snack session for youth (10-24 yo) at Oban Youth Cafe 4-5pm.

1.15pm, Thur 25 Jan 2024
Honeyland
2019, 12+ years, 85min
In a deserted Macedonian village, Hatidze, a fiftysomething woman, trudges up a hillside to check her bee colonies nestled in the rocks.

5.15pm, Fri 16 Feb 2024
5 Animations / Shorts
5+ years, 23min for 5 short films:
“Packing a Wave” (2021), “Rock Pools” (2022), “We Know a Better Word than Happy” (2022), “Wind” (2013), and “Land Without Evil (Tierra sin Mal)” (2017).
* Free snack session for youth (10-24 yo) at Oban Youth Cafe 4-5pm.

1.15pm, Thur 7 Mar 2024
Fractured Land
2015, 12+ years, 78min
Caleb is a First Nations law graduate, taking on the oil and gas industry to protect his people’s land, water and culture in in the wilds of Northern Canada.