Under the Nagasaki Sky

Narrated by Uma Thurman, the nature series by Brain Leith Productions takes a rare look at the vital role of carbon in our planet, and the power of nature in helping to restore and stabilize our ecosystems. 　　By blending compelling science with cutting-edge graphics and cinematic shots of oceans, grasslands, forests and metropolises, THE FUTURE OF NATURE brings the invisible element of carbon into view. These stories provide audiences with a unique visual representation of the planet’s ecosystems, uncovering the role that animals, plants and people have on carbon and solutions that could help stabilize environmental shifts. 　　Featuring contributors from all corners of the globe, THE FUTURE OF NATURE follows climatologists, ecologists, Indigenous leaders and economists. Their stories reveal how nature is helping to rebalance Earth’s delicate systems and heal itself. 　　Episode Descriptions 　　Episode 2: “Grasslands” 　　Episode 3: “Forests” 　　Episode 4: “Humans” 　　is a production by Brian Leith Productions for PBS in association with ARTE France. Executive produced by Giulio Boccaletti and Patrick Morris. Narrated by Uma Thurman. Series producer is Verity White. Nicola Brown produced and directed episode one. Robert Myler produced and directed episode two and Gavin Maxwell produced and directed episodes three and four. Music by Ben Foster. BBC Studios is handling international distribution.

Artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan has a sonic research practice that acts to investigate human rights abuses. In this essay film he focuses his “Private Ear” into analysing sonic data generated by the UN to chart the incessant noise pollution emanating from unauthorised Israeli plane and drone flights into Lebanese airspace. His study focuses upon a period of relative silence in Beirut, the streets of the city emptied by the Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020-2021. UN data is combined with video documentation of the skies above Beirut, filmed and gathered by Abu Hamdan. In this space he carefully charts the sonic incursions of the sometimes invisible but ever-present aircraft, manned and unmanned, which the artist describes as “atmospheric violence”.

Six teenagers witness a cosmic event that grants them special powers. With these new abilities, each one discovers the worst and the best of himself, while a journalist and a mysterious woman pursue them with unclear ends.

A french engineer travels in a ship that stops in Buenos Aires, where he must deliver a packet to a mysterious man that is to hard to catch. He then must pursuit him in a labyrinthic city.

After several electrical storms, Jacobo begins to lose his sanity in the middle of a confinement.

Paris, 1978. In a male-dominated music industry, Ana uses new electronic machines to make herself heard, thus creating a new sound that is destined to mark the decades to come: the music of the future.

In the big city of Yanagihara, the masses of people and buildings make it a bustling place to exist, and yet, people will meet and fall in love here in this city.

Three children make a daring escape from the underground city in which they are slaves of the Evil Emperor, and go in search of the fabled Sky Kingdom and the great Prince Ariel.

A busy travel writer goes glamping at a state park with her best friend and finds herself falling in love with one of the park rangers.