Welcome to our treasure trove of world-changing films. Browse, watch and share 100s of films on a wide range of key social and environmental justice issues, from women’s empowerment to climate change, via access to education or food sustainability. Seeking further inspiration? Explore the links to dozens of Scotland-based organisations working towards positive social change.
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A narrative-led speculative fiction film which follows an exchange of internal letters between two protagonists who imagine one another across parallel dimensions.
An uplifting environmental film that explains why the world needs to plant more trees in the tropics and the amazing things that can happen when we take care of the people tending the forests.
Screened as part of TOAFF12
A personal account of two filmmakers’ experiences in the streets of Cairo during the first days of the Arab Spring.
Screened as part of TOAFF16
With the world population expected to reach 10 billion by 2050, how will the world feed itself?
Young people from Isaro Community Initiative share three actions we can take to help keep global warming within 1.5c and tackle climate change.
Screened as part of TOAFF12
A Palestinian farmer turned filmmaker chronicles nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army in the West Bank.
Screened as part of TOAFF20
Arresting portrait of a Roma family forced to abandon their off-grid life for an uncertain future in the city.
Young people from Cowall Youth Forum call for us to act now and highlight actions we can take to help tackle climate change and its impact on our planet.
Screened as part of TOAFF20
A moving study of motherhood, sisterhood, and the position of women in Moroccan society.
Screened as part of TOAFF21
Traversing poetry, dance, movement, sign language and film, Affirmation #6 considers what it means to respond to, and be part of, swelling movements for transformation.
A short film about an Indian teenager growing in independence
Priscila Tapajowara weaves together documentary and mythology in two gentle portraits of indigenous and riverine people from the Amazon.
