About
Africa Human Rights Film Festival
Using film to generate robust debate, empower African citizens, raise awareness, and promote respect for human rights in marginalized communities including rural areas and townships
Jacqueline van Meygaarden
October 4 & 5 at Isivivana Community Centre in Khayelitsha
Impact Production Workshop
Producer and director, Jacqueline van Meygaarden has over 20 years of experience as a storyteller, initially in multimedia feminist visual theatre, then switched to non-fiction filmmaking to reach wider audiences. Jacqueline was awarded the Commonwealth Vision Award (2007) for her short film Free Energy; produced climate justice campaign content for 350.org in Africa; produces factual content for the SABC; and has directed several short documentary films. Her first documentary, Nosy Mena (2011), about communities vulnerable to climate change in Madagascar inspired her to share similar strong African stories about environmental justice. She is currently producing and directing on HOTSPOT, a series of documentary feature films about climate justice in Southern Africa. She co-directed Temperature Rising (2023), the first film to be released in this series which is part of a nationwide impact campaign.
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Tekuanes, Xinka Guardians of Water
A group of young Xinka community scientists monitor the water in the basin of the symbolic river “Los Esclavos”. The defense of their water and their territory makes them Tekuanes -Guardians- not only of water and nature, but of a culture under threat.
Production: Mesoamerican Water Caravan / Cuadrante Films, with support from Oxfam
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TEM FLORESTA
Our Movement Starts Here
The story of a rural community that inspired an international environmental justice movement by fighting the state of North Carolina’s toxic landfill.
Hidden In Plain Sight
Hidden in Plain Sight” shines a light on a rarely discussed aspect of the safari industry, uncovering the pervasive economic leakage and exploitation perpetuated by foreign-owned companies across Africa.
Gaza Is Our Home
With over 150 family members trapped in the Gaza Strip, and the devastating loss of 33 family members in November 2023.
Zambezia: A Well For Change
In the poverty-stricken countryside of Zambezia, Mozambique, a seasoned community leader faces the formidable challenge of constructing a crucial water well.
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In The Language Of Our Mothers
Sadia is a Masalit composer who immigrated from Sudan to Kakuma, a refugee camp in Kenya, in 2017. Since 2003 the Janjaweed, a Sudanese Arab militia group, have been systematically attacking the ethnic-African Masalit tribe.
Cocoon of Pain
Topsy Madaka was a political activist from Port Elizabeth who was killed in April 1982 by one of the apartheid security police’s most notorious killers, Gideon Nieuwoudt.
The Soil of the Namib – Dreams
Far away, in the middle of the Namibian wasteland, on former German-colonial soil. Unsecured, threatening tunnels lead deep into a monolithic mountain.
Beni Youth
Climate change and poverty lead to repeated hunger crises in Malawi. Many people leave in the hope of a better life in the cities or other countries.
The Strongman of Bureng
Former UN soldier Essa has fled the Gambia for Finland, where he has successfully set up a business that provides for his family.
Elmina
This beautifully captured short film gives us a wide angle snapshot of coastal life in Ghana.
We, Women Survivors
Sexual violence is one of the cruelest and most devastating weapons used in current armed conflicts.
Unsubmissive
The seriousness of the violence committed by the Morocco state against Saharawi women, and the courage of five activists fighting for their rights with unwavering determination.
Climate Resilience: Life As Told by Women
Most of us like to think of climate change as a distant possibility. An academic curiosity. But for the thousands of people living in coastal Kerala, it has already become part of their daily misery.
In Your Eyes
“In your eyes” documentary explores themes of identity, migration, asylum and racism and examines the complexities of the migrant and refugee experience.
The Reality That Surpasses Me
Maya, a Tunisian filmmaker residing in Canada, embarks on a quest to produce a documentary centered around Palestine.
We Will Remain
“We Will Remain” is a 30-minutes documentary that intimately portrays the threatened Palestinian Bedouin communities scattered across the Jerusalem desert in the West Bank.
Help Me Help You
Help me help you is about young people motivated to help in Namibia’s Kalahari Desert, a place that has attracted much outsider help for many decades.
The River Is Not A Border
Forty protagonists, witnesses and victims, look back at the 1989 massacres on both sides of the Senegal River, the border between Mauritania and Senegal, in order to understand what really happened, and try to take a step towards reconciliation together.
The Sea Goddesses
Three women, who are also mothers, face the dangers of artisanal sea fishing to enable their families to survive.
Unheard
As is the case with most African communities, fishing in the Bakiga culture of southwestern Uganda is strictly forbidden to women.
Reclailm: Find the heart of the circular economy
Soumaro Natali and Pauline Buregeya have very different livelihoods and live over 6,000 kilometres apart, but they’re both integral players in Africa’s shift towards a circular economy.
Marguerite’s Fearless Journey
In the aftermath of witnessing the execution of 72 friends and colleagues, Marguerite Barankitse embarks on an extraordinary mission in Burundi.
!AITSA
Bringing together ancient spiritual knowledge and cutting-edge science, !AITSA is a transcendental film about humans in the Great Karoo desert of South Africa seeking meaning in the infinite darkness surrounding us all.
TITI – In cyclone’s wake
On climate change front line, Madagascar has been badly hit by successive cyclones. Titi, a nurse from Niger, joins medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières and reaches inaccessible rural communities to confront the alarmingly rising rates of child malnutrition.
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