In Monalisa's home town, a small village in the middle of the rainforest on the Indonesian island of Borneo, many people are faced with a tough decision: Do I sell my land to ensure my family's financial survival and risk deforestation and environmental destruction by large corporations? Or do I stand up for the preservation of nature and suffer economic consequences as a result?

The documentary short film ‘Monalisa - a climate story’ shows how the climate crisis is already shaping biographies in the Global South. It portrays a young indigenous woman from the Dayak people who joins a reforestation organisation and gives everything to find a solution to the conflict in her community that does justice to both people and nature. Watch her story below.

This story was made possible by Fairventures Worldwide gGmbH and Climate Stories, and sponsored by EWS Elektrizitätswerke Schönau eG.