Programme A-Z

A daughter uncovers her mother's radical journey from rural South Africa to exile, and how storytelling can become a weapon of resistance and a tool of healing.

In a Guatemalan town, two fiery sisters channel their grief and anger into a local street performance to protest against gender-based violence in the country.

Three libraries. Two friends. One Mission: Shiro and Wachuka set off on an obstacle course to re-establish three county libraries as modern spaces for cultural engagement.

​​Trailblazer of Indigenous cinema Alanis Obomsawin will present her landmark film, documenting the Kanien’kéhaka resistance to the development of sacred land into a golf course.

An intimate profile of trailblazing actress Marlee Matlin, who was thrust into the limelight in 1987 when she became the first Deaf actor – and youngest Best Actress nominee – to win an Academy Award™.

A primary school teacher in Russia becomes an unlikely whistleblower as he goes undercover to document propaganda and militarisation inside Russia’s school system.

Two artists in Walthamstow set out to take their street off the grid, kickstarting a solar-powered energy revolution.

This poetic yet urgent chronicle of Sudan’s youth revolution shows how hope was ignited though through music, murals and the unyielding power of words.

Kim A. Snyder’s urgent film shows how librarians in the US have become unexpected freedom fighters – battling censorship and political extremism to defend the right to read.

This striking archive-footage film follows Haida Nation members staging a peaceful but resolute blockade against a logging company, sparking a national debate around indigenous land rights in Canada.

In this powerful and inspiring film, an Afghan filmmaker documents repression by the Taliban and resistance to it across three generations of females in her family.

In this love story and urgent call to action, an Indigenous couple risk everything to defend the Amazon and their unborn child’s future.