Petr Lom & Corinne van Egeraat: Cinema for the Environment

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For the sake of future human and non‑human generations, it is time for a new nature‑inclusive democracy… The Coriolis Effect is a cinematic invitation to feel what this world might be like.
Original title: The Coriolis Effect Year of Production: 2025 Duration: 110 min Country of Production: Netherlands, Norway Languages: Cape Verdean Creole, Portuguese Subtitles: English Director: Petr Lom Cinematographer: Petr Lom, Runar Jarle-Wiik (underwater cinematography) Editor: Gys Zevenbergen Sound Design: Jeroen Goeijers; field recordings by Ad Stoop & David Medina Music: Vasco Martins Producer: Corinne van Egeraat; co-producer Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas

Moderated by Mette Chang Munthe-Kaas

The Coriolis Effect unfolds as a meditation on resilience in a place where land, sea, and wind are in constant negotiation. Life here is shaped by scarcity and unpredictability, yet marked by an unspoken pact between people, animals, and the elements. The film listens closely to the spaces between words, to the quiet endurance carried in gestures and routines. It is less about catastrophe than about the slow, persistent forces that transform a community over time: the shift of seasons, the retreat of water, the re-shaping of coastlines. Music and field recordings blend into a living archive, where memory is carried not in monuments, but in shared work and daily care. In its patient rhythm, the film offers a counterpoint to urgency, creating room for reflection on how we inhabit a changing world, not as passive witnesses to loss, but as participants in its unfolding story.

Petr Lom & Corinne van Egeraat are a longtime filmmaking duo behind ZINDOC, specialising in creative, poetic documentaries rooted in human rights and ecological themes. Corinne, born in the Netherlands in 1966, is the producer and owner of ZINDOC, with a strong background in theatre and a commitment to freedom of expression. Petr Lom, born in Prague in 1968, grew up in Canada — he holds a Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard and formerly taught human rights and philosophy before turning fully to film.

Over years of collaboration, they’ve made several feature documentaries together: ANA ANA (“I am me” in Arabic) (2013), Burma Storybook (2017), and Angels on Diamond Street (2019) among them. Corinne has also produced impactful short work, run storytelling workshops, and forged cross‑disciplinary projects combining film, poetry, photography, and activism.

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