Michael Matheson Miller | 2015

United States | 91 min | 12+ years | English |

Screened as part of TOAFF16

Fighting poverty is big business. But who profits the most?

Fredrik Gertten | 2019

Sweden | 92 min | 12+ years | English, Spanish with English subtitles |

Landlords without faces, apartments without renters… Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities across the world, but incomes are not – pushing long-term residents out.

Powerful insight into UK links to conflict minerals

SCIAF is the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund, the official aid and international development charity of the Catholic Church in Scotland. We work in over 16 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America, to help some of the poorest people in the world, regardless of religion, to work their way out of poverty.

Set up after the Make Poverty History march in Edinburgh during the 2005 G20 meeting, the festival aims to
1. raise the profile of international justice and development issues;
2. provide an annual ‘shop window’ to the public; and
3. be a platform for co-operation and debate for the world justice movement in Edinburgh.
It puts together the programme of the festival which in 2014 is from 04 – 11 October, organising some key events, and co-ordinating all the other events which are put on by supporting organisations

ActionAid is a leading international charity working in over 45 countries, working with the poorest women and children in the world, changing their lives for good.