The Researcher (2024)

Name: The Researcher
Genre: Documentary, Adventure
Released: 2024-11-07T11:33:36+01:00

Documentary | 71 minutes

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Genre: Documentary / Adventure

Duration: 71 minuten

Country: Italy

IMDb score: 6,4 (9)

Releasedate: 7 June 2024

The Researcher plot

After refusing to fly, climate researcher loses job: The New York Times headline features a selfie of a 50-year-old man aboard a canoe, sailing across tropical seas, his intellectual spectacles contrasting with his Indiana Jones hat. By the time the news breaks globally via The Guardian and The New York Times on October 13, 2023, Prof. Gianluca Grimalda, an environmental researcher at the University of Kiel in Germany, will have been filming “The Researcher” for a year. Six months earlier, Grimalda had traveled for 40 days to reach Papua New Guinea, the location of his research. He filmed the 23,000 kilometers he traveled and the dozens of trains, buses, trucks, taxis, ferries and cargo ships that saved him 3.5 tons of CO2, while emitting ten times less than a single comfortable flight.