Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Director David Baute shares this clip from the film, explaining:
“Mariposas Negras” is inspired by the lives of three women who lose their homes and culture as a result of climate change. Produced over thirteen years, the film involved a highly sensitive process of development and research in the places where the three stories unfold: Tanit (Turkana / Kenya), Valeria (Island of Saint Martin / Caribbean), and Shaila (Ghoramara / India). This approach imbues the film with authenticity and truth.
It is an independent film whose artistic and animation work in Blender originated in the Canary Islands, with a budget of two million dollars. This has not hindered its journey through international festivals or its receipt of awards such as the GOYA for Best Animated Feature in Spain and the PLATINO Award for Best Ibero-American Film.
We believe the film deeply affects the viewer, stirring awareness through a poetic, auteur-driven perspective on humanity’s greatest current challenge: climate change. Through its dissemination and with your support, we seek recognition of the figure of the “climate migrant,” now the leading cause of migration worldwide—a humanitarian tragedy for which we are responsible and which is destroying the lives of millions of people. It is an emergency ignored by the international community and by governments in countries where respect for the planet and for human beings has been sidelined.
Director David Baute shares this clip from the film, explaining:
“Mariposas Negras” is inspired by the lives of three women who lose their homes and culture as a result of climate change. Produced over thirteen years, the film involved a highly sensitive process of development and research in the places where the three stories unfold: Tanit (Turkana / Kenya), Valeria (Island of Saint Martin / Caribbean), and Shaila (Ghoramara / India). This approach imbues the film with authenticity and truth.
It is an independent film whose artistic and animation work in Blender originated in the Canary Islands, with a budget of two million dollars. This has not hindered its journey through international festivals or its receipt of awards such as the GOYA for Best Animated Feature in Spain and the PLATINO Award for Best Ibero-American Film.
We believe the film deeply affects the viewer, stirring awareness through a poetic, auteur-driven perspective on humanity’s greatest current challenge: climate change. Through its dissemination and with your support, we seek recognition of the figure of the “climate migrant,” now the leading cause of migration worldwide—a humanitarian tragedy for which we are responsible and which is destroying the lives of millions of people. It is an emergency ignored by the international community and by governments in countries where respect for the planet and for human beings has been sidelined.
