Finding Home
FINDING HOME is an animated TV special / interactive exhibition exploring how climate change reshapes the meaning of “home”. Each episode features the testimony of an environmental refugee, conveys the raw emotion behind stories of resilience and adaptation and makes the human impact of the climate crisis tangible and relatable.
The first story follows Jardenia da Silva, a young woman from the drought-stricken region of Ceará in northeastern Brazil. Extreme heat and water shortages forced her rural community to rely on emergency water tanks, which became breeding grounds for Zika-carrying mosquitoes. At just seventeen and eight months pregnant, Jardenia learned that she had contracted the virus and that her unborn daughter would be born with microcephaly. Forced to leave her family behind, she travelled alone to Fortaleza to give birth and rebuild her life in an unfamiliar city. While raising her daughter in one of the city’s favelas, she found unexpected love and support, yet continues to grapple with homesickness and the lasting consequences of climate disruption.
The second story follows Hamish Matau, a young man of Tuvaluan heritage whose ancestral homeland faces the existential threat of rising seas. As a child, he experienced increasingly severe storms firsthand before his family migrated to New Zealand. Growing up, he carried the burden of hearing that his homeland would soon disappear beneath the ocean. Now studying Pacific and Global Health, Hamish advocates for climate justice and the protection of Tuvalu, serving as Youth Ambassador for the Nanumea Salvation Seawall Project. While the world debates digital futures for disappearing nations, Hamish dreams of a future in which he can return home – not virtually, but in person.
The third story introduces Lyndon Lewis, whose life was upended when Hurricane Irma devastated the Caribbean island of St. Martin in 2017. Overnight, he lost both his home and thriving business. As communications collapsed and violence spread across the island, Lyndon drew on his police training to rescue others before his family was evacuated to mainland France with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. Despite being French citizens, they struggled to access support because climate displacement had no legal recognition. Today, Lyndon has returned to St. Martin, where he serves as Minister of Justice, while his children remain in France for their education – his family permanently divided by the storm.
By combining authentic testimony with expressive animation, FINDING HOME transforms deeply personal experiences into a universal reflection on identity, belonging, and resilience. The film invites audiences to see climate displacement not as a distant crisis, but as a profoundly human story unfolding in the lives of ordinary people around the world.