Black Butterflies
★ 8.3 · 2024 · 83m · Animation · Documentary
Tanit, Valeria and Shaila are three women from very different parts of the world who face the same problem: climate change. They will lose everything because of global warming effects and they will be forced to emigrate to survive.
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