The fragile recovery of communities and rare wildlife in the mining-scarred Nimba Mountains is threatened by a global steel company using conservation promises to brand a new mining venture as green.
"Overburden" is set in the mist-shrouded Nimba Mountains on the Liberia–Guinea border, where rare wildlife and local communities reclaim a landscape scarred by mining. Today, this fragile recovery faces a new threat: a global steel company using conservation promises to brand a new mining venture as green.
With exclusive, on-the-ground access, "Overburden" follows rangers, scientists, and forest defenders—like Moses Darpey, a hunter turned ranger—as they navigate the tangled frontier where mining meets conservation, and where memory, science, and power collide. The film captures intimate encounters with the mountain’s extraordinary inhabitants, from a viviparous toad found nowhere else on earth to resilient cave-dwelling bats and adaptive chimpanzees.
"Overburden" tells a powerful story of resilience and transformation in a landscape shaped by industry yet alive with possibility. Through vivid cinematography and deeply rooted storytelling, the film follows communities and nature enduring and adapting in the face of relentless global forces. "Overburden" celebrates the power of mutual aid, showing how people and ecosystems persist, rebuild, and thrive against overwhelming odds.
This screening will be followed by a post screening Q&A with filmmaker, Gregg Mitman and conservationist, Shadrach Kerwillain.
Presented in partnership with the Princeton University: Environmental Humanities Colloquium, History of Science High Meadows Environmental Institute, and Center for Health and Wellbeing.
The screening is a special event of the Princeton Environmental Film Festival. To see the full schedule visit our website.
EVENT TYPE: | Special Events | Films | *No Registration |
TAGS: | peff special | PEFF |
