In a world controlled and timed by light, an ordinary man has a plan that could change the natural order of things.

Rubaiyat Hossain | 2019

Bangladesh, Denmark, France... | 95 min | 12+ years | Bengali with English subtitles |

Screened as part of TOAFF20

A young Bangladeshi garment worker discovers the power of activism on a journey towards collective liberation and empowerment.

After a town’s manufacturing plant is shut down, the community rallies around its neighbourhood cinema and refuses to let the town die.

Marijana Jankovic | 2018

Denmark | 21 min | 8+ years | Serbian with English subtitles |

Screened as part of TOAFF20

Maja, a six year old Serbian girl, is dropped off at the kindergarten by her father. They have only been in Denmark for a short period of time. Everything is new, especially the language, which makes it difficult for Maja to interact with the other kids. Her words and her intentions are often misunderstood. As her parents come to pick her up at the end of a long day, her motivations become clearer.

Around the world, thousands of women are standing up to climate change – and to the governments and big businesses who are allowing it to destroy the world we love

Virginia Fuentes | 2013

Cuba | 19 min | 12+ years | Spanish with English subtitles |

Being gay in Cuba has never been easy. Being a lesbian mother is even more complicated. But four women have forged their own path and are challenging cultural prejudice as they go.

The Story of Stuff Project | 2019

United States | 4 min | 8+ years | English with English subtitles |

Plastic polluted neighbourhoods in Manila are taking things into their own hands by creating systemic zero waste programs.

Hear the stories of the hundreds of innocent refugees and asylum seekers faced more than six years captivity at the hands of the Australian Federal Government on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.

EnGender Scotland | 2014

Scotland | 3 min | English |

Marginal-eyes – the new gadget making women’s work disappear!

Máxima Acuña, a fearless Peruvian subsistence farmer, faces down violent intimidation to challenge a mining giant threatening the mountains and the lakes that surround her.

Oxfam | 2017

United Kingdom | 2 min | 8+ years | English |

8 billionaires currently own the same wealth as the poorest 3.6 billion people. In this campaign film Oxfam look at the Inequality Fighters pushing for change!

Spencer Sharp | 2015

United States | 5 min | 8+ years | English with English subtitles |

The battle of Man vs Earth has put us on the brink of extinction. Who do you think will win?

After ten years in the UK an elderly merfolk couple discuss their experience of being forced to leave their home in the ocean and of their new life on land

A poem for the planet,  Metamorphosis takes the pulse of our earth and bears witness to a moment of profound change: the loss of one world, and the birth of another.

Jacques-Rémy Girerd | 2008

France, Italy | 92 min | 5+ years | French with English subtitles |

Mia goes on a journey to save her father, who is trapped in a landslide at a remote construction site, and protect the Earth.

Hassan Fazili | 2019

Canada, Qatar, United States | 87 min | 12+ years | English, Bulgarian, Persian... with English subtitles |

Screened as part of TOAFF19

When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters.

The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California’s first openly gay elected official

Christoph Schaub & Kamal Musale | 2013

India, Switzerland | 84 min | 15+ years | English |

Screened as part of TOAFF14

Indigenous inhabitants and landless farmers demand their right to existence by making a 400 kilometres protest march through India.