October 17, 2024: Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival is a two-day festival that takes place simultaneously in almost 136 countries, featuring young filmmakers and new voices. This year’s theme was “ I Have A Dream – Youth & Climate Change – Making Mother Earth Cleaner & Greener.”

The festival was a great opportunity for our students to watch a variety of films which conveyed powerful messages of protecting our environment. Students also had a discussion round between each series of films.

A Student’s Reflection

It was indeed a great opportunity that we were given to watch films from the Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival at our school on the theme “ I Have A Dream – Youth & Climate Change – Making Mother Earth Cleaner & Greener.”

The film festival was really inspiring and has left a long lasting impression. ‘Shades of Rag Pickers’ was especially emotional since this film is not fictional and had people who had truly experienced the hardships of dealing with the garbage problems of cities as well as the indifference of society towards resolving these issues. Each rag picker’s story was different. This particular movie took everyone through an emotional ride.

The efforts of the film makers towards making these films has truly inspired us to work on finding solutions to the problems created by global warming and environmental pollution and to bring about change. So great was the impact of the festival on us that it inspired us to start garbage picking in our surroundings and to improve ways to reduce waste in order to see a great future where the air we breathe becomes pure and our children / our future generations could see beautiful forests and many other shades of nature. Finally beyond being inspired, we need to take actions to protect our environment which we need to pass on to generations so that we can see the change that should start within us.
T. Akshara
Class 9 Rose
Don Bosco School, Bandlaguda, Hyderabad