That Which Once Was

In 2032 an eight-year old boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile northern metropolis. Haunted by memories of flooding that left him homeless and orphaned, the boy forms an unexpected friendship with an Inuk ice carver who helps him confront his past.

• refugee
• indigenous
• climate change
• post-apocalyptic future
• inuit
• flooding
• global warming
• orphan
• environment
• carver
• ice sculpture
• environmental destruction
• woman director
• environmental disaster
• inuk
• adult child friendship
• environmental issues
• near future
• environmental catastrophe
• short film
• caribbean
• environmental crisis
• ice
• displaced persons
• refugees
• not too distant future
• female filmmaker
• aquaphobia