Just Peace Movie Night – Climate Justice Week: The Here Now Project

Join us for a special edition of Just Peace Movie Night, taking place as part of The Hague Climate Week, from 2–8 November 2026. As part of this city-wide programme around climate and sustainability, we invite you to an evening of film, reflection and conversation on climate change, climate justice and meaningful local action.

Experience climate change through the eyes and cameras of the people living through it. The Here Now Project brings together extraordinary first-hand footage of climate extremes from communities around the world. Without narration or traditional interviews, the film puts lived experience at the centre and confronts audiences with the immediate and interconnected reality of climate change.

About the film – The Here Now Project

The Here Now Project tells the story of a year of climate extremes through footage captured by ordinary people experiencing these events themselves. Rather than relying on journalists, experts or filmmakers to interpret what is happening, the film places the cameras in the hands of the people living through these events.

Without traditional narration or interviews, the film creates an immediate and personal perspective on climate change, bringing together experiences from communities around the world. The footage reveals how climate extremes affect people’s everyday lives, while highlighting the interconnected nature of a global crisis.

Following the screening, a moderated conversation will explore how we document and tell stories about climate impacts, whose perspectives are centred, and the ethical responsibilities involved in using personal footage of people experiencing disaster and loss.

The conversation will then turn towards action: how can the urgency and emotions generated by stories like these become meaningful engagement rather than helplessness? Local changemakers and initiatives from The Hague will share concrete examples of what climate action can look like at community level, connecting the global experiences shown in the film to people and initiatives taking action here.

Conversation themes

Lived experience and storytelling – What changes when climate events are documented by the people experiencing them rather than interpreted by journalists, experts or filmmakers?
Ethics of documentation – Who owns these images and stories? How should highly personal footage be contextualised, and what responsibilities arise when people are injured, displaced or die? How can we avoid turning suffering into spectacle?
From urgency to agency – Stories of climate impacts can leave us feeling overwhelmed, but they can also inspire action. What meaningful action is possible locally, and what examples from The Hague show that communities can make a difference?

Programme

18:00 – 18:30 – Doors open / arrival

18:30 – 18:40 – Welcome and introduction

18:40 – 20:00 – Screening: The Here Now Project

20:00 – 20:30 – Post-screening conversation: lived experience, storytelling and climate justice

20:30 – 20:45 – Audience Q&A, closing reflections and possible call to action

20:45 – 21:30 – Networking drinks

Location: De Energiekas – Helena van Doeverenplantsoen 3
Date & Time: 06 November 2026 | 18:00 – 21:30

About Just Peace Movie Nights

Just Peace Movie Nights is an event series organised by The Hague Humanity Hub in collaboration with partner organisations from The Hague’s peace and justice ecosystem. It brings themes of peace and justice to life for a broad audience, creating space to reflect on important issues together through storytelling and cinema.

About the organisers

The Hague Humanity Hub is a not for profit foundation based in The Hague, the international city of peace and justice and home to hundreds of organisations working towards a better word. We offer an open and inclusive platform for changemakers to connect both locally and internationally, building bridges across themes, sectors, and disciplines.