COLOSSAL WRECK takes us on an odyssey inside the COP28 climate conference in Dubai.

Are these enormous get-togethers all about false promises that hinder change? Or are they the only hope we've got for world-saving unity?

With his innocuous selfie-stick, filmmaker Josh Appignanesi moves unnoticed through Dubai's seductive slickness to reveal the talks, meetings and elite backroom parties behind the strange mixture of global cry for help and political posturing that is a COP.

Lost in translation, he comes face to face with the irony of an oil baron hosting this last-chance climate saloon in a techno-utopian leisure city -- that, er, happens to be built in a burning desert.

But then the business-as-usual is ruptured by a searing encounter with indigenous voices from the frontline of climate injustice...

This special event will be opened by a screening of climate photographer Gideon Mendel's new short film GONE. Stay around post-screening for a very special Q&A with director Josh Appignanesi

'A riveting bulletin from the frontline of modernity and postmodernity.' The Guardian

openDemocracy is thrilled to present COLOSSAL WRECK, a feature documentary following filmmaker Josh Appignanesi as he journeys into the depths of the COP climate conference in Dubai.

Are these enormous get-togethers all about false promises that hinder change? Or are they the only hope we've got for world-saving unity?

Join us for a film-screening at the Castle Cinema, followed by a conversation between Appignanesi, openDemocracy’s Editor-in-Chief, Aman Sethi, Ebele Okobi and Jacob Cherian.

Jacob Cherian is a writer and strategist specialising in communicating humanitarian and ecological issues, an anchor for ClimateWeek.in and architect of Comms4Dev.in.

Ebele Okobi is a trouble maker and tech apostate committed to creating beloved community for radical imagination.