The 7th edition of the #FIFDH Impact Days programme is here, bringing together inspiring public events and an annual #Impact Lab# dedicated to empowering 12 international film projects. Selected from 196 submissions spanning 77 countries and five continents, this year’s lineup reflects a world in motion. From India’s young women reclaiming power through the world’s oldest martial art to Aboriginal Elders healing asbestos-scarred homelands, and from a Colombian activist’s presidential campaign to the untold stories of autism and survival, these documentaries illuminate urgent global causes with profound depth and humanity.

Selected FIFDH Impact Days Films and Projects

• Above and Below the Ground (dir. Emily Hong) – Myanmar
  Indigenous women activists and punk rock pastors defend a sacred river from a Chinese-built mega-dam through protest, prayer, and Karaoke music videos in Myanmar’s first and only country-wide environmental movement.
• Children of Honey (dir. Jigar Ganatra & Immanuel Musa Marc) – Tanzania
  Three young friends seek the meaning of life in nature, exploring a pivotal moment in the 50,000-year history of the Hadzabe hunter-gatherers as they face the challenges of land loss and alcohol addiction.
• Cinderella Unbound (dir. Ilinca Calugareanu) – Romania
  In Romania’s patriarchal society, relentless women fight against a justice system that silences child victims of sexual abuse, striving to create lasting change.
• Dissidents (dir. Manon Loizeau) – Confidential
  This project is confidential and cannot be publicly disclosed at this time. Direct meetings will be organised with pertinent organisations and foundations.
• Igualada (dir. Juan Mejia) – Colombia
  Francia Márquez, a Black Colombian rural activist, challenges societal inequality with a presidential campaign that reclaims the derogatory term “Igualada” and inspires hope for a better future.
• In Front of Us (dir. Inna Sahakyan) – United States/The Netherlands
  A California judge finds herself on the other side of the courtroom, confronting the complexities of bringing a dictator accused of genocide to The Hague.
• Kalari (dir. Maria Kaur Bedi & Satindar Singh Bedi) – India
  The world’s oldest martial art empowers young women in India to confront the historical and daily realities of violence against women.
• Queer As Punk (dir. Yihwen Chen) – Confidential
  This project is confidential and cannot be publicly disclosed at this time. Direct meetings will be organised with pertinent organisations and foundations.
• The Myth of Monsters (dir. Beatrice Leong) – United States
  Filmmaker Beatrice Leong shares her personal journey of living with autism, uncovering years of misdiagnoses, institutionalisation, and coerced electroconvulsive treatment.
• The Other Side of Silence (dir. Dheeraj Akolkar) – Norway
  Gerd Fleischer travels to post-war countries to collect testimonies from children born of enemy soldiers’ sexual violence, advocating for legal protections for children born today.
• Traces (dir. Alisa Kovalenko & Marysia Nikitiuk) – Ukraine
  Six women survivors of sexual violence and torture during Russia’s aggression in Ukraine transform their trauma into a journey of post-traumatic growth.
• Yurlu | Country (dir. Yaara Bou Melhem) – Australia
  Aboriginal Elder Maitland Parker fights to heal his homeland scarred by asbestos contamination, viewing the landscape as a living entity intrinsically connected to human well-being.