Pages tagged “Activism & People Power”
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Hope is a Word
In Nigeria’s Niger Delta, poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey gathers a new generation of writers to turn memory, anger and hope into poetry, testimony and resistance.
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All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea
When thousands of dead crabs wash ashore along England’s North East coast, fisherman Stan Rennie is drawn into a grassroots fight for truth, accountability and survival.
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Jo in the Water
A passionate sea swimmer becomes a reluctant activist, taking on one of the UK’s biggest water companies in the fight for clean, safe waters.
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Will the People Possess the Wind
A lyrical sail through the Thames Estuary asks who owns the wind, and whether renewable energy can become a force for public good, community power and connection.
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You Told Us to Talk About the Weather
On a rewilded farm, a child’s climate anxiety opens into a wider reflection on land, responsibility and the future, voiced by a new generation of farmers and narrated by Michael Sheen.
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Materia Prima
In the Bolivian Andes, the global race for lithium reveals an old story in new language: extraction, resistance and the question of who pays for the green transition.
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Arubara
When damaged coral reefs threaten an Indonesian fishing community’s future, the village takes a difficult gamble to protect the sea it depends on.
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Power Station
The story of two artists in Walthamstow who set out to take their street off the grid, kickstarting a solar-powered energy revolution.
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Yanuni
Yanuni is an unflinching documentary from the frontlines of the Brazilian Amazon, where Indigenous leader Juma Xipaia and her husband Hugo fight for their land, life and the future of their unborn child. This is cinema of survival.
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The Pickers
Across Europe’s fields—from sun-drenched groves in Italy to wind-swept vineyards in Greece—The Pickers brings us face to face with the migrant harvesters whose hands bring our fruit and veg to the table.