INTERNATIONAL
The following films from the multiple Media That Matters Film Festival collections explore international issues. For even more films on this issue, visit MediaRights.org.
A Girl Named Kai
Through a stirring poetic mix of video and sound, Kai appeals to her traditional Taiwanese parents for acceptance in spite of her untraditional take on life and love.
Official selection of the fifth annual festival
Bread
Guatemalan brothers Edwin and Edson crush rocks with their father so their family has enough to eat.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
By-Standing: The Beginning of an American Lifetime
Kelly Tsai speaks truth to power as she raises her voice against war and complacency.
Official selection of the seventh annual festival
Day of Remembrance
Sixty years have passed between Pearl Harbor and September 11th, but have things really changed for Arab and Muslim Americans?
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
Esmeraldas: Petroleum and Poverty
Esmeraldas documents the intense human suffering that occurred when a Texaco oil refinery exploded and destroyed an Afro-Ecuadorian community.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Face to Face: Stories from the Aftermath of Infamy
Sixty years have passed between Pearl Harbor and September 11th, but have things really changed? An interactive online documentary explores what it means to be an American with the face of the enemy.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Garbage Dreams
Egypt’s resident garbage recyclers, the Zaballeen, struggle as Cairo modernizes its waste disposal system.
Official selection of the seventh annual festival
Holla Back Dubai!
In this touching video letter exchange, kids from the United Arab Emirates “holla back” to a class of sixth-graders in Washington Heights, New York and show that a stereotype is no match for a smile.
Official selection of the third annual festival
I Promise Africa
While making a documentary about orphans, a filmmaker preserves the voices of a generation that will soon be silenced.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
In Transit
War may be over in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but many Congolese women continue to battle for their reproductive health.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
In the Morning
When a young Turkish woman is raped, there is nothing honorable about revenge.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
Massacre at Murambi
Does the way we respond to the genocide in Rwanda predict our response to Darfur?
Official selection of the seventh annual festival
Neglected Sky
In this fast-paced animation, youth producer John Cooney shows us that a little effort can go a long way in reversing global warming.
Official selection of the fifth annual festival
Night Visions
Individuals enlist in the U.S. military for different reasons, but they all return from war, changed.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
Novela, Novela
A group of Nicaraguan activists produce a homegrown soap opera about issues like safe sex and domestic abuse.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
Rapping at Fear
In Andrés Tabares’ barrio in Colombia, “social cleansing” groups wage war. When this thirteen-year-old raps against violence, people listen.
Official selection of the seventh annual festival
Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border
What happens when people cross the line? Vigilantes take the law into their own hands on the U.S.-Mexican border.
Official selection of the seventh annual festival
Seeds of Hope: South Africa
A group of women in a South African township learn how to sustain themselves and their children.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
The Final Frontier: Explorers or Warriors?
Two teens from Chicago ask senators, scientists and science fiction fans: Could space be the new battleground?
Official selection of the seventh annual festival
The Luckiest Nut In The World
A singing peanut and his gang of shelled friends explain that sometimes free trade is just nuts.
Official selection of the fifth annual festival
The Sixth Section
During the cold winters of upstate New York, a group of immigrants work together to give back to their hometown of Boqueron, Mexico.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
We Were Humans
This multimedia animation asks what would happen if the billions of dollars of yearly military spending were directed towards education and world hunger.
Official selection of the third annual festival
World On Fire
$5,000 could cover the cost of hair and make-up for one day on set in LA or pay for one year’s schooling for 145 girls in Afghanistan. Sarah McLachlan does the math and encourages you to join her.
Official selection of the fifth annual festival
iThemba
The Sinikithemba Choir turns stage into soapbox, singing and speaking for 5 million HIV+ South Africans.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
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