Dir: Fanny Armstrong
Year: 2009
Dur: 89 min
Documentary
UK

A futuristic documentary starring Peter Posthlewaite as a man living in the devastated world of 2055 asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

When the people of Oaxaca, Mexico decided they'd had enough of bad government, they didn't take their story to the media, they took the media over.

While our thirst for coffee makes it the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields. One man is out to fight for the struggling laborers.

As the world mines as much as 15 times more groundwater than is replenished, Blue Gold looks at the greed behind this out-of control situation.

Dir: Arya Lalloo
Year: 2010
Dur: 60 min
Documentary
South Africa

Tired of waiting for the state to make good on liberation’s promises and facing deepening poverty, communities across South Africa have taken to the streets with increasing volatility since the early 2000s. This film traces why.

The story behind the world's largest oil-related environmental lawsuit; filmmaker Joe Berlinger investigates the facts in the case of the so-called "Amazon Chernobyl," a disaster that occurred deep in the rain forests of Ecuador.

For more than twenty years, during a time when most African countries were still under the yoke of colonialism, tens of thousands of young Cuban revolutionaries were actively involved in liberation wars across Africa.

Focusing on an introduced fish species that wiped out almost the entire stock of native fish in Lake Victoria and later went on to fuel a booming export source, this film questions our hunger for globalisation.

As successive left of centre presidents take power across Latin America, Arijon looks in detail at what the shift away from neo-liberalism means for ordinary working class people.

Following the lives of three “ordinary” Indian women determined to stand up against restrictive societal norms, this award-winning and beautiful film shines a light on the cruelty of the caste system.

Heart wrenching and powerful, Green follows the last days of a female orangutan as her forest home is raided to provide products we routinely use in our homes.

Five communities around the world are given a chance to speak for themselves on the daily struggles they face just to survive.

An intimate and moving account of a family's extraordinary courage in the face of a relentless campaign of 
state-sanctioned terror.

A touching documentary on the anthropology of the founder of liberatory pedagogy, Paulo Freire. Showcasing his experience in Brazil, the film demonstrates how revolutionary methods can help the illiterate.

Six shorts that situate the long and silenced plight of Egyptian workers on the road to the 25 January uprising and their subsequent struggle to resuscitate the spirit of the revolution and achieve its promise for a better life.

In the little town of Kumba, Cameroon, there have been no convictions in spousal abuse cases for 17 years. But two women determined to change things in their community are making strides that could shake the country.

In a small corner of the most populous country in Africa, billions of dollars of crude oil flow under the feet of a desperate people. This is the real story of the Nigeria’s Niger Delta.

A fly on the wall view of the impact of government sponsored AIDS denialism between 1999-2010; a period when over two million South Africans died of AIDS despite the existence of antiretroviral treatment.

In Freedom Park, a squatter settlement in SA, a network of former sex workers create Tapologo. They learn to be Home Based Carers for their community, transforming degradation into solidarity and squalor into hope.

Using archival footage and first-person accounts, The Reckoning describes the massive atrocities perpetrated against humanity in the 20th century that prompted the international community to establish the first permanent International Criminal Court (ICC).

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines.

The impact of climate change on subsistence agriculture is immense, nowhere more so than Africa. This film looks at the experience of three communities in South Africa, Mali and Kenya.

A moving documentary which chronicles the personal and political journeys of the groundbreaking human rights lawsuit, Doe v. Unocal, brought by EarthRights International and villagers from Burma against oil giant Unocal.

Close to a billion of the nearly seven billion people on Earth are starving today. But the food we are currently producing could feed 12 billion people. This film uncovers why.