Cynthia Wade, Sasha Friedlander | 2018

United States | 81 min | 12+ years | Indonesian with English subtitles |

Screened as part of TOAFF19

The story of a teenager finding her political voice in the face of a natural disaster – a rousing tribute to youth activism and to the role of education in empowering young women.

An insight behind closed doors of the negotiations for the Paris Agreement that reveals a clash of forces.

When a nomadic family move in and break Honeyland’s basic rule, the last female wild beekeeper in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.

After suffering a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter fights the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance.

A unit of all female Muslim police officers are sent to Haiti as peacekeepers for a year, shattering every stereotype the world holds about the capabilities of Muslim women.

Erlend E. Mo | 2020

Denmark, Norway, Sweden | 87 min | 8+ years | Danish, Norwegian with English subtitles |

Feeling desperate about climate change, one family uproots their life to join an ecological experiment.

As a society, we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blogs. So how could we possibly be throwing nearly 50% of it in the trash?

A cinematic exploration of the emotional and psychological dimensions of climate change

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.

Julia Bacha | 2017

Palestine, United States | 76 min | 15+ years | English, Arabic, Hebrew with English subtitles |

Screened as part of TOAFF18

Recontextualising a revolution: a unique opportunity to re-appraise the history of nonviolent resistance in Palestine from a feminist perspective.

Seven grassroots campaigners from around the globe attempt to harness the only force that can prevent catastrophic climate change: the will of the people.  

A rousing portrait of young climate activists for whom rebellion is both a means and an end in the struggle for climate justice.

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

Mira Jargil | 2020

Denmark | 74 min | 12+ years | English, Arabic, Danish with English subtitles |

A story of love across borders, and the compromises a family must make when it is torn apart by circumstances beyond its control.

A visually dazzling exploration of the global arms trade that lays bare the shocking nexus of lobbying, corruption, slush funds and illicit deals.

Three years after I, Daniel Blake (TOAFF16), Ken Loach and his long-term collaborators (screenwriter Paul Laverty and producer Rebecca O’Brien) return with another devastatingly powerful portrait of contemporary Britain.

Julia Dahr | 2016

Norway, United Kingdom | 85 min | 8+ years | English, Swahili with English subtitles |

Screened as part of TOAFF17

A moving portrait of resilience on the frontlines of climate change.

An epic attempt to re-imagine the challenge of climate change and see it as the best chance we’ve ever had to demand – and build – a better world.