Telling urgent contemporary stories from around the world with a unique artistic lens, these films explore a range of compelling personal perspectives; from the women spied on by undercover police, to a groundbreaking therapy circle in Rwanda, to harvesting your eggs in your 30s and to the granddaughter of an indigenous shaman revealing what it means to live as part of the forest.
Waska: The Forest is My Family (16 mins):
In memory of her grandfather, Nina Gualinga speaks to his legacy by calling out the commodification and extractivism of Indigenous lands in the Amazon Rainforest, and how this consumption has now extended to the ancestral medicine ayahuasca.
We Did Not Consent (18 mins) :
Three women, disguising their identities with theatrical masks, revisit memories of the undercover ‘spy cops’ who infiltrated their lives and forged false relationships
The Things We Don’t Say (20 mins) :
A group of young Rwandans break the taboo of being conceived by rape in a groundbreaking workshop tackling intergenerational trauma, 30 years after the genocide
Harvest (20 mins):
Despite being unsure if she ever wants to have children, Sophia embarks on the physically and emotionally gruelling journey of harvesting her eggs in her 30s.
The screening of this programme on Thursday the 6th of March was followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. Hosted by Executive producer at The Guardian, Jess Gormley.