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
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HOLD THE LINE
This short film follows the stories of six human rights defenders on the frontline of the climate crisis in South Africa, Colombia, and the United States. In a world on fire, they are challenging corporate abuse, and protecting our shared environment. But they are more than activists. They are also parents, grandparents, sons and daughters – and holding the line comes with serious personal risks. They are watching out for us, but who is watching out for them?
The Green Vein
For centuries, the great empires of West Africa were fed by rivers like the Volta or the Niger – their blue veins
Cobalt Rush, The Future of Going Green
The world of tomorrow depends on a strategic mineral needed for batteries: cobalt, which is mainly found in the Congolese soil
Coltan Fieber
Yves Ndagano, a former child soldier and laborer, returns to the places where he was abducted at the time
The Illusion of Abundance
Despite a deeply unbalanced game, Maxima, Bertha and Carolina share a common goal: they are leading today’s environmental fight against modern corporate conquistadors.
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The Total System – Anatomy of a multinational energy company
Diving into the heart of one of the 5 oil super majors, TOTAL.
Ndatu Savi / Water’s Fate
Ndatu Savi / La Suerte del Agua: telling the story of communal struggles for water as a result of climate change in Mexico’s Costa Chica
Amuka
The Democratic Republic of Congo could feed almost 1 in 2 people on Earth. Yet one in six Congolese people suffer from hunger.Yet one in two Congolese suffers from moderate acute malnutrition.
EACOP – Crude Reality
In East Africa, French oil giant Total Energies is about to build the world’s longest heated crude oil pipeline.
Our World
In the midst of the Indian Ocean, a french long-liner patrols against illegal fishing.
One of The Thousand Hills
They did not know that in Rwanda, being born a Tutsi was a crime. The lives of Fiacre, Fidéline and Olivier ended in 1994.
Catapum: Nowhere to Fall
From the Colombian coast to New York City, this film is the powerful story of 3 women from 3 generations, who found in the Bullerengue -an ancestral musical tradition- a way to resist, heal and celebrate life.
Lobola, A Bride’s True Price?
March 2014. Filmmaker Sihle Hlophe has just gotten engaged. A few days later, her father passes away. Sihle is in a serious fix – who will receive the Lobola now that her father is no more?
In-Visibles
Eight African women retrace the violence they suffered, the abandonment, the discrimination, and the journey of redemption towards a free and autonomous life, with the help of other women.
The Last Transhumance – Ibrahim
For 10 days, from dawn to the first stars, the Ben Daoud family guides its 200 goats on foot to the cool pastures of the Moroccan High Atlas
Climate Emergency – Feedback Loops
The film series had its official launch with the Dalai Lama, Greta Thunberg and world-renowned scientists in a webcast, “The Dalai Lama with Greta Thunberg and Leading Scientists
Kabwe Ka Mukuba ( Land of Smelting)
This documentary tells the story of Caleb, a young activist working tirelessly to advocate for a more sustainable future for his community. Lead pollution has made his hometown –- Kabwe, Zambia — ‘the world’s most toxic town,’ with over 100,000 people affected by the crisis.
Sundarban: Rising Water, Ebbing Life
Sunderbans. Planet earth’s largest delta where two of the most iconic rivers of India, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra, meld and disappear into the giant Indian Ocean.
We Are All Responsible
Ailton Krenak, indigenous leader and thinker, talks about the pain of the Watú (or Rio Doce in the Krenak language).
Wentworth Community Vs Big Oil
This documentary details the shocking knock-on impact of air pollution caused by big oil in the South African township Wentworth
Wings of A Community
Embraced by the low deciduous forest, in the heart of “tierra caliente” region in Michoacán, there is a town called El Chocolate.
The Gooseberry Grandmother’s Daughter
Malungelo didn’t always get on with her mother. But when Mam’Fikile was brutally gunned down, her daughter is determined to find out why she was killed.
Black Waters
“Aguas Negras” (“Black Waters”) is a documentary about the Cuautitlán River that runs through the State of Mexico.
Between The Rains
Filmed over the course of four consecutive years of record low annual precipitation in northern Kenya
Beyond The Cup of Coffee
Coffee is one of the most popular morning beverage consumed by millions of people around the world. There are numerous reasons to why so many people consume coffee
People of the Great River
This documentary is about a story which teaches us that collaboration has played a significant role in the preservation of a language.
Fast Beauty – The unvarnished truth about cosmetics
Children work in Indian mines for our beauty. The torment behind our cosmetics is hardly known.
Hendrik Witbooi, God from heaven has now broken the treaty
A man in his 50s living in the arid lands of the south in present- day Namibia at the end of the 19th century pursues his vision to continue the trek his grandfather could not complete to lead his people to fertile pastures.
Beauty For Ashes
A documentary which endeavours to have a sober conversation about some of the most critical social issues in South Africa.
Defending The Intag Valley
For nearly 30 years, communities have worked to conserve, restore and defend the cloud forests of the Intag Valley in Ecuador
Voiceless: The Silenced Genocide
In 1993 the president of Burundi is murdered, and a wave of ethnic violence floods the country
Where To Go
“Where to go” documentary about gender-based violence in Bolivia, by the Spanish director Nacho Sánchez Bravo, which deals first-hand with the testimonies of Bolivian women from the city of Cochabamba and the project of the NGO MISEVI ESPAÑA.
A Tree Has Fallen – Remembering Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu inspired a whole world.
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