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Issue: Wellbeing & the Cost of Action

Forest for the Trees
Rita Leistner | 2021
Canada | 88 min | 12+ years | English | Closed Captions

A group of tree planters share how their emotional renewal is connected with that of the land.

Topics: Climate, Environment & Energy, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action
Radio Silence
1 May 2021 - 3 May 2021
Online

Join Take One Action and Scottish PEN for an online screening of Radio Silence and a live conversation about the limits of press freedom from Mexico to Scotland.

Topics: Art & Media in Social Change, Better conversations, Geo-politics & Democracy, Human Rights, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action, Women's Empowerment
Scottish PEN

Scottish PEN is a centre of PEN International, a not-for-profit organisation that champions writer’s freedom of expression and literature across borders.

Topics: Activism / People Power, Better conversations, Education & Young People, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action
Plastic China
Jiu-Liang Wang | 2016
China | 82 min | 12+ years | Chinese (Mandarin) with English subtitles

A portrait of poverty, ambition and hope set in a world of waste.

Topics: Climate, Environment & Energy, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action
Tomorrow
Wednesday 13 November 2019, 5:30pm
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Join the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability at the University of Edinburgh for the third screening of their Conscious Cinema strand of events – Tomorrow. Presented in partnership with TOA Locals.

Topics: Activism / People Power, Climate, Environment & Energy, Food, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action
Sorry We Missed You
Saturday 28 September 2019, 5:00pm
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow

Ken Loach and his long-term collaborators (screenwriter Paul Laverty and producer Rebecca O’Brien) return with another devastatingly powerful portrait of contemporary Britain.

Topics: UK Poverty, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action, Workers' Rights
Push
Thursday 19 September 2019, 7:30pm
Centre For Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow

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

Topics: Activism / People Power, Economics & Fair Trade, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action
Soufra
Thomas Morgan | 2017
Lebanon, United States | 73 min | 8+ years | Arabic with English subtitles | Subtitles

The wildly inspirational story of Mariam Shaar – an intrepid social entrepreneur using food to heal the wounds of war in the world’s oldest refugee camp, Burl El Barajneh

Topics: Activism / People Power, Food, Middle East / Gulf, Refugees / Asylum, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action, Women's Empowerment
The Infamous Chalk Girl
San San F Young | 2017
United Kingdom | 25 min | 12+ years | English, Chinese (Mandarin) with English subtitles | Subtitles

Two years since her arrest made her an accidental superhero of the Umbrella Movement, the infamous ‘Chalk Girl’, now 16, must decide whether to rejoin the battle for Hong Kong’s democracy.

Topics: Activism / People Power, Education & Young People, Geo-politics & Democracy, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action
Deveron Projects

Deveron Projects is an arts organisation based in Huntly, a market town in the north east of Scotland with a population of 4,500. Working with the idea that the town is the venue, they create socially engaged projects that connect artists, communities and places.

Topics: Activism / People Power, Art & Media in Social Change, Climate, Environment & Energy, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action
Fractured Land with Greener Melrose
Sunday 3 February 2019, 3:00pm
MacArts, Galashiels

Join Greener Melrose for their first TOA Locals screening

Topics: Activism / People Power, Climate, Land Rights, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action
The Law of the Sea
Elmaz Ekrem & Dominika Ożyńska | 2016
United Kingdom | 3 min | 12+ years | Greek with English subtitles | Subtitles

An incredibly insightful animation provides a personal telling of a very important story from an often unheard perspective of the refugee crisis.

Topics: Migration, Refugees / Asylum, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action
Enough – the Empowered Women of Korogocho
Brent Foster | 2018
Canada | 8 min | 12+ years | Swahili with English subtitles | Subtitles

The elder women of Nairobi’s most dangerous slum decide it’s time to fight back.

Topics: Wellbeing & the Cost of Action, Women's Empowerment
Laymun
Catherine Prowse & Hannah Quinn | 2017
United Kingdom | 4 min | 12+ years | No dialogue

In a Middle Eastern war zone, a gardener defies the violence and destruction around her by growing a lemon garden, filling her home with life and beauty.

Topics: Middle East / Gulf, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action, Women's Empowerment
Island of the Hungry Ghosts
Sunday 13 January 2019, 2:30pm
Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Christmas Island is famous for being host to one of the largest annual land migration: that of forty million red crabs scurrying from the jungle to the sea, their journey diligently protected from traffic and other dangers.

Topics: Human Rights, Migration, Refugees / Asylum, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action
Threads
Torill Kove | 2017
Canada, Norway | 8 min | 8+ years | No dialogue

This spellbinding hand-drawn odyssey explores how fundamental attachment is to the experience of being human

Topics: Art & Media in Social Change, Better conversations, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action
TOA Volunteers View: Truth, Democracy & Cinema
Posted on 3 September 2018 by Take One Action

A Volunteers View: Take One Action volunteer, Jamie Wills takes a look at this years programme and how it connects to the conversations about democracy, “fake news” and individual action […]

Topics: Activism / People Power, Better conversations, Geo-politics & Democracy, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action
Two Wheels Good
Barry Gene Murphy | 2013
Ireland | 10 min | English

Four inspiring veterans of the open road celebrate life in the saddle.

Topics: Activism / People Power, Art & Media in Social Change, Environment & Energy, Wellbeing & the Cost of Action
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