Past DCEFF Selection Hollow Tree is returning to DC for a special screening co-presented by JxJ and DCEFF.

Hollow Tree follows three teenagers coming of age in their sinking homeland of Louisiana. For the first time, they notice the Mississippi River’s engineering, stumps of cypress trees, and billowing smokestacks. Their different perspectives — as Indigenous, white, and Angolan young women — shape their story of the climate crisis.

Screening will be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Kira Akerman moderated by environmentalist Susan Crawford.