Film & TVNewsWatch the first UK trailer for the upcoming Greta Thunberg documentaryI Am Greta takes a behind-the-scenes look at the teen Swedish climate activistShareLink copied ✔️September 18, 2020Film & TVNewsTextGünseli Yalcinkaya The first UK trailer for the highly anticipated Greta Thunberg documentary has been released. I Am Greta takes a behind-the-scenes look at the teen Swedish climate activist, whose school strike in 2018 launched an entire global climate movement. The film, which recently debuted as part of the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, arrives to the UK and Irish cinemas in mid-October. Filmmaker Nathan Grossman and producers Cecilia Nessen (Bergman: A Year in the Life) and Fredrik Heinig (Midsommar), compiled the film, which features previously unseen footage that Traces Thunberg’s journey from a school student to the “voice of a generation”. It culminates in her trip across the Atlantic (in a zero emission sailing boat) to deliver her now-famous speech before the UN. Last month, the 17-year-old announced her return to school after taking a year to travel the world with her climate activism. Her efforts have seen some groundbreaking change. The “Greta effect”, as it has been dubbed, has seen an increase in online activism among young people. She also won a Right Livelihood Award (AKA the “alternative Nobel Prize”), was named TIME’s Person Of The Year, had a beetle named after her, and a poem written for her by Patti Smith for her birthday. I Am Greta is out in cinemas on October 16 Watch the trailer below. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREThe Voice of Hind Rajab, a Palestinian docudrama moving audiences to tearsMeet the 2025 winners of the BFI & Chanel Filmmaker AwardsOobah Butler’s guide to getting rich quickRed Scare revisited: 5 radical films that Hollywood tried to banPlainclothes is a tough but tender psychosexual thrillerCillian Murphy and Little Simz on their ‘provoking’ new film, Steve‘It’s like a drug, the adrenaline’: Julia Fox’s 6 favourite horror filmsHow Benny Safdie rewrote the rules of the sports biopic Harris Dickinson’s Urchin is a magnetic study of life on the marginsPaul Thomas Anderson on writing, The PCC and One Battle After AnotherWayward, a Twin Peaks-y new thriller about the ‘troubled teen’ industryHappyend: A Japanese teen sci-fi set in a dystopian, AI-driven future