About this Event
Join us for a two-day, family-friendly film festival featuring 22 award-winning films across six programmes.
The films explore urgent social and humanitarian issues in the UK and around the world, including environmental challenges, poverty, the Palestinian struggle, refugee experiences, injustice and other issues affecting communities today.
Each programme will be followed by a short discussion and an opportunity to meet and connect with activists and filmmakers.
You can join us for all six programmes across the weekend or attend just one. Each programme lasts approximately two hours.
Find out more about the festival programmes.
Activists Without Borders Film Festival (AWBFF) is an annual event that celebrates impactful documentaries and dramas addressing human rights, climate change, and social justice. The festival showcases films from around the world, creating a platform for dialogue, awareness, and solidarity between filmmakers, activists, and audiences. Organised by Activists Without, a UK-based advocacy and campaigns group dedicated to protecting human and environmental rights, empowering people to take meaningful action, and addressing injustices worldwide through education and non-violent action.
The festival is supported by by the Impact Filmmakers Network, Activists Without Borders Academy, and Film Hub South East, in collaboration with the International Youth Council. With support of the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery in order to bring this project to more audiences across the UK.
Saturday 10th
🕑: 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Arrivals & Registrations
🕑: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Programme 1 - Changing Perspectives
Info: Film Screening - The Thing, The Quest of Scoop and Monk, The Couch, My Grandmother is a Skydiver, Dedomestication, Crunch Point: Hunger and Hardship in Food Bank Britain, Mum
🕑: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Programme 2 - Memory & Resistance
Info: Film Screening - First Nations: Finding the Chickasaw, Genocide in the Wildflower State, Light, 1948 What We Knew
🕑: 05:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Programme 3 - Climate & Survival
Info: Film Screening - The Fire In Our Hearts, Terradread
Sunday 11th
🕑: 10:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Programme 4 - Humanity in Action (at Reading Biscuit Factory)
Info: Film Screening - Kim: The long way home, Lifeline: The War on UNRWA
🕑: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Programme 5 - Voices for Justice
Info: Film Screening - Journacide: The War on Truth, Not Ours To Carry
🕑: 05:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Programme 6 - Conflict & Survival
Info: Film Screening - The strength of silence, All We Have, NŪR, Where are we going, More Punk Than Punk
Event venue & nearby stays
The Pavilion, 143-145 Oxford Road, Reading, United Kingdom
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