HOPE IS A WORD + DIRECTOR Q&A

Name: HOPE IS A WORD + DIRECTOR Q&A
Released: 2026-09-13
Duration: 2 h 17 min

<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Scottish Premiere<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">In Nigeria’s Niger Delta, decades of oil extraction have left a landscape marked by spills, gas flaring, displacement and grief. Poet, architect and activist Nnimmo Bassey has spent his life confronting that damage, using language as both witness and weapon. Now, approaching 70, he turns towards a younger generation growing up in the long aftermath.<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">In her directorial debut, Maria Galliani Dyrvik follows Bassey as he gathers emerging writers into spaces of listening, memory and creative risk. Among them are Barinedum, from the heavily polluted Ogoni region, and Bassey’s son Ukpono, a young rapper finding his own form of expression. Through workshops, conversations and poems in progress, the film asks what it means to inherit a struggle, and how art might help transform pain into collective power.<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Followed by a live Q&A with director Maria Galliani Dyrvik and producer <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Anita Vedå<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Director: Maria Galliani Dyrvik | Countries: Norway/Italy/Nigeria | Year: 2026 | Running Time: 82 mins | Languages: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">English, Pidgin, Khana & Tae (with English subtitles)<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> | Rating: N/C 15 <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Screening with short film: SIKOQQINNGISAANNASSOOQ <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">UK Premiere.<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">In Uummannaq, North-West Greenland, children carve Kalaallisut words into the sea ice: words that describe frozen land, sea, winter and a way of life in retreat. Each word names something being lost. Together, they generate a new one: “sikoqqinngisaannassooq”, the possibility of a future without sea ice. <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Followed by a live Q&A with director Adam Sébire <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Director: Adam Sébire | Country: Norway | Year: 2025 | Running TIme: 16 mins | Language: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Kalaallisut (with<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> English subtitles) | Rating: N/C PG <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#212529;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">These films are subtitled. Post-film Q&As will be live captioned (CART). Learn more about <a href="https://www.landxsea.org/access"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(62, 124, 159); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">access at the festival <span style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(62, 124, 159); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">→</a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">This event is part of the 4th Montrose LandxSea Film Festival, Scotland’s environmental film festival: a weekend of films, conversations and special events exploring climate, nature, place and our changing world. Find out more at <a href="https://www.landxsea.org/"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">landxsea.org<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">.</a><div> </div>PT2H17MPG2026-09-13

Martin Rosen

HOPE IS A WORD + DIRECTOR Q&A"HOPE IS A WORD + DIRECTOR Q&A"

Showtimes

September 13, 4:30 pm