Greta Thunberg burst out laughing on camera when told that the climate movement she founded was still holding demonstrations, in a 27-second scene from a new German documentary that has ricocheted across X this week. She launched the Fridays for Future school strikes as a 15-year-old in 2018.
The clip comes from Auf Panzern in die Klimakrise ("On Tanks Into The Climate Crisis"), a 100-minute independent film by German YouTuber and filmmaker Hubertus Koch. Meeting Thunberg in Berlin, Koch tells her it is "kind of symbolic" that their interview fell on the day of a Fridays for Future demonstration in the city.
"Is it?" Thunberg asks, before dissolving into loud laughter. "Really?" When Koch says yes, she follows up: "They still do that?"
Schaut mal wie Greta Thunberg euch auslacht XD pic.twitter.com/0KgBR3ru1i
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The companions laughing along at the table were Hebh Jamal and Judith Scheytt, who sailed with Thunberg on the Gaza flotilla, according to Apollo News, which reported that the scene was shot at a Palestinian café in Berlin. Visegrad 24's post of the clip alone drew more than 380,000 views within a day.
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