WOW Film Festival 2024

Stories of Unarmed Civilian Resistance

Expired May 31, 2024 10:59 PM
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5 films in package
Survive among violence: Stories of the Nasa people in Colombia
The Nasa ancestral people of Colombia have lived amidst the Colombian armed conflict for decades. Armed groups, illicit economies, and economic conglomerates target them, jeopardising their survival, and endangering their ways of life.
Minga
This film explores the history and meaning of a community-based socio-cultural and political practice known as Minga, an indigenous form of protest and resistance.
Caring for Community Life
The Senú indigenous people of the Almendros 2 reservation in El Bagre tell how they have been organizing to resist armed groups and remain in their ancestral territories.
Inter-regional learning on UCP in Nigeria
This video captures insights from an intergenerational and collective impact model adopted by the Jos Stakeholder's Centre for Peace in Jos, Nigeria, to reduce violence in the context of two communities that have witnessed several episodes of communal conflict.
Palestine: To Stay On Our Land
This short film explores the Palestinians' non-violent response to ethnic-cleansing in the South Hebron Hills (Masafer Yatta).
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This short film explores the Palestinians' non-violent response to ethnic-cleansing in the South Hebron Hills (Masafer Yatta).


Produced by local filmmakers, it documents the experience of Palestinian farmers and shepherds of the area and how self-protection has been enhanced by the existence of international civilians in the area who are there to film and document the daily threats of expulsion and dispossession by Israel and the settlers.


ALSO AVAILABLE AS PART OF THE PACKAGE 'CREATING SAFER SPACE: STORIES OF UNARMED CIVILIAN PROTECTION'

  • Runtime
    8 minutes
  • Language
    Arabic
  • Subtitle Language
    English
  • Director
    Mahmoud Makhamreh
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