‘We were enslaved, sold in markets and raped,’ says one girl. ‘But they could not extinguish the light in our hearts.’ In 2014, Islamic State fighters kidnapped Yazidi girls from their villages in the mountains of Kurdistan, forcibly converted them to Islam and sold them as sex slaves to terrorists.
An hourglass and a skull carefully placed on a sand dune in the desert wind or between the thin plates of an ice floe – environmental artist Anne de Carbuccia creates graceful installations in remote places. In this way, she tries to show appreciation for our planet’s dwindling beauty and capture it in her photographs.
An oil company worth billions, a sham trial making questionable accusations and nine men sentenced to death: in the early 1990s, Shell destroyed the environment and the livelihoods of the Ogoni people with oil production in the Niger Delta. Rivers and lakes were poisoned, people died.
Every month, your bank account replenishes itself – without you having to do anything. Now, the world’s biggest, boldest social experiment is changing lives against the odds in a small village in Kenya. Chosen by US organisation GiveDirectly, the residents of Kogutu are to receive 22 dollars a month for 12 years.
In 2020, 93-year-old Bruno D. is found guilty. His crimes took place over 75 years ago: D. was an SS guard at Stutthof concentration camp. Without people like him, without thousands of accomplices, the Nazi regime’s genocidal campaign would not have been possible.
If the shamans stop dancing and life in the rainforest loses its balance, the sky will collapse and crush everything beneath it. This story has been passed down in the Brazilian Amazon by every generation of Yanomami. But greed for gold is polluting rivers and poses a threat to the Yanomami. Their shamans are dying as the earth warms.
What happens to the food we digest after it leaves our bodies? Is excrement waste or a useful resource? Looking for answers, Rubén Abruña travels through sixteen cities on four continents and finds out that what is supposed to be a solution – that is being applied worldwide – is a living nightmare.
Indigenous Voices Feature: Forest, A Garden We Cultivate
This film offers new perspectives on the relationship between the forest and Indigenous communities and the role they play in the fight against the climate crisis.
Following our call for Indigenous documentaries, we have curated a programme of outstanding short documentaries presenting Indigenous perspectives on the climate crisis, biodiversity and water management.
We present the three following films: