Three films about the human rights impact of forced evictions of indigenous and traditional communities from their lands in three different contexts: Palestinian Bedouins, Brazilian-Amazonian Indigenous and Quilombola communities, and South African former land tenants.

Three film screenings about the longlasting and multifaceted human rights impacts of forced evictions of indigenous and traditional communities from their lands - in three different contexts followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers - Mnqobi Ngubane, Alice Panepinto, and Siobhán Wills, and Cahal McLaughlin.

WE WILL REMAIN (30 mins, 2024)
Director: Bashar Zaroum, Producer: Zainah El-Haroun, Executive Producer, Alice Panepinto
This film, produced in collaboration with a Palestinian media company, investigates the humanitarian impact of continued forcible transfer of the Bedouin communities living in the Jerusalem periphery in Palestine, and how impunity for violations of international law contributes to the deterioration of humanitarian vulnerabilities of these communities.

‘MATHONGA ELIZWE: Spirits of the Earth’ (40 mins - 2024)

Producer and writer, Mnqobi Ngubane

Mnqobi’s maternal grandmother who raised him, was a land tenant on a white-owned farm before being forced out. Mathonga Elizwe – Spirits of the Land is a film that shows the struggles of black South Africans in obtaining land today. The film addresses three cases in which white landowners are adamant about keeping land, while overtly and covertly frustrating land applicants and the land reform process. The film's characters articulate that there is no freedom without land ownership.

‘WE FIGHT FOR THIS LAND: Ka’apor and Quilombola Communities in the Amazon’ (62 min – 2024) Codirectors Cahal McLaughlin and Siobhán Wills

This documentary follows the lives of two communities in the Amazonian state of Maranhão, Brazil, who resist eco-violence and try to maintain their traditional and more sustainable living systems. The quilombola community – descendants of fugitive slaves – in Boa Hora3/Manorama has lived off the land for generations. The Ka’apor indigenous community has resisted settler violence since the beginning of colonization. They face ongoing eco-violence in the form of assassinations of their leaders and land grabbing by local farmers.