Official Film Festival Selection - Wednesday

Welcome to the Official Selection for Day 3 of the Changing the Story Online International Film Festival 2020.

On Wednesday, catch a captivating selection of films about youth, resistance and freedom. You'll see films about the devastating impact of war and the trials and tribulations of transitioning from youth to adulthood. See first-hand how youth and communities are resisting oppression, discrimination and violence, and how and why peaceful resistances take the form that they do in particular contexts around the world.

NB. Research relies on personal testimony and the creation of an open space for the critical exchange of ideas. As a consequence, some content in these films refer to or depict topics you may find upsetting, such as sexual abuse, slavery, child abuse, self-harm or suicide, kidnapping or abduction, death or dying, hateful language directed at marginalised groups.

Daniel in the Homophobic Lion’s Den creatively uses stories from the Bible to tell the life experiences of LGBTQI+  Ugandan refugees living in Nairobi. In this film the Nature Network use the story of Daniel to celebrate the liberation of the LGBTQI+ community against the anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda.

This film is part of series created by Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba, the “true voice of the land”, based in Graaff-Reinet in the Karoo. The film follows Jacques Mashwani, a young rugby coach from Graaff-Reinet who believes in opportunities for young people, and is committed to helping young people work hard to maximise opportunities.

From four poetry pieces Francesco wrote about being young, with the support of the Izazov! team, Francesco created a text. Probably a metaphor of what being young and feeling oppressed means, but at the same time, with irony, there’s always the opportunity to smile, also while we’re falling. If we dance while we enjoy the ride.

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The film is a youthful, rebellious and cynical critique of B&H’s national mentality. Although the film begins as a critique, it ends with an open question left to be interpreted by every young individual in the country. Every generation has their own share of time, but one day our time will come, too!

The film by Lum Çitaku documents the school-house system in Kosovo in the 1990’s and features the accounts of young people in the present day qualitatively exposed for the first time to topics about their past.

‘The Hertica Home’ is a short 3D interactive documentary that uses testimony to explore connections between space and memory by focusing upon the the Sami Frasheri gymnasium faculty in the Hertica Family home, a School House in Prishtina, Kosovo in the 1990s.

Jesus and the Guys Charged with Indecency creatively uses stories from the Bible to tell the life experiences of LGBTQI+ Ugandan refugees living in Nairobi. In this film, The Nature Network use the story of Jesus to play out their experience of stigma, discrimination and violence because of their sexual and gender identity.

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The Tree of Love, directed by Mat Charles, is a story of love, friendship and resistance, written, illustrated and animated by children and young people from the indigenous Nasa community many of whom were recruited by armed groups and forced to take up arms.