Logline Venezuela, Maracaibo. In a broken health system where life hangs by a thread, Carolina rises as a maternity warrior. Drawing strength from a violent past, she relentlessly preserves the vital cord between pregnant women and their babies. Impact Statement “Help Carolina create a network of partners working for women’s rights in Venezuela and bordering...
The Accordion, a short film by renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi, is about two young street musicians in Tehran, who represent a new generation that prefers solidarity over violence. Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison on 20 December 2010. The judge also banned him from making films, giving interviews and ...
Eight film teams selected for the Take on Film & Impact programme will present their projects and impact goals to an audience of NGOs, international organisations, funders and impact producers. Distributors, sales agents, and other professionals from the cinema and television industries are also welcome to attend. ...
Take on Film and Impact is Movies that Matter’s industry programme, designed for filmmakers and NGOs. It supports filmmakers in refining their impact strategies and create connections and collaborations with organizations, funders, and broadcasters in the Netherlands. The programme consists of online training and an in-person segment for selected film projects. Between 22 and 24...
The once-exiled brewer John Christian Kavakure returns to conflict-scarred Burundi to fulfil his old dream: a brewery that frees Burundians from dependence on multinational Heineken. With locally brewed banana beer, made according to his grandmother’s special recipe. For brewer John Christian Kavakure, beer is not jus...
In 2009, a man and two accomplices try to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern Argentina. Claiming ownership of the land and armed with guns, they kill the community’s leader, Javier Chocobar. The murder is caught on video. After nine years of protest, a court case is finally opened. Ar...
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one reaches its destination: the newly appointed local prosecutor Alexander Kornev. What follows is a haunting historical drama about the workings of evil bureaucracy in Stalin’s Russia. ...
According to the Sudanese UN Ambassador Abdalmahmood Abdalkhaleem, "We are proud to be an Afro-Arab country based on tolerance and understanding." In his mind, the allegation that genocide is taking place in the Sudanese region of Darfur, as the American government maintains, is "grossly exaggerated." There is a confli...
How do you come to terms with a gruesome family history? For generations, both the descendants of enslaved people and the descendants of those who profited from slavery have kept this question buried. But in Bloedlijnen, the silence is finally broken. Through deeply personal narratives, six families explore how the leg...
As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment sites for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his school. Pav...