Lights, camera, climate: MENA filmmakers tackle a burning region

Lights, camera, climate: MENA filmmakers tackle a burning region

In the Middle East and North Africa, the climate crisis is not a distant threat but an everyday reality. While much of the global media continues to frame the region through conflict and geopolitics, a group of filmmakers is redirecting attention to a quieter yet deeply harmful danger. Rising temperatures, disappearing water sources, burning forests, and collapsing livelihoods are no longer warnings about the future; they are already shaping the…