Black Water
Natxo Leuza | 2025 | Spain | 85’
About the film
As far as the horizon stretches, we see water. Once there were villages, fields and people here, but now it appears to be an apocalyptic vision of a flooded future. Black Water shows, however, that the climate crisis is not something of the future, but of the present. We are in Bangladesh, following Lokhi, a pragmatic woman who, after hopeless battles against rising water, decides to move with her family to Dhaka. Directors Lucia Benito and Carmen Ruiz de Temiño Garcia follow her arrival in the fastest-growing city in the world, where thousands of climate refugees arrive daily. Black Water is a documentary that plays with the boundary of fiction, partly scripted, partly observed. The film blends poetic images and harsh reality to create a foreboding manifesto. A future uncomfortably close for the Netherlands as well.
