Nigeria’s ‘A Place Called Forward’; ‘Earth Women’ make The NGO International Film Festival’s 2022 official selection

Selected from an unprecedented record of 2071 entries from a total of 123 countries from 1400 organisations, this year’s selection will screen at a three-day festival slated for October 19th to 21st, 2022.

The official selection will explore the festival’s theme of the year- Covid, Conflict, Climate Change; through varying and captivating storytelling styles, genre and approaches. Also in line with the festival’s mission, the official selection will feature human-centred stories that seek to address themes of social relevance along the 17 SDGs.

Among the 100 selected titles, 10 hail from Nigeria including CSR-In-Action’s docudrama ‘Earth Women’ based on the challenges of women in extractive communities, and Umanu Elijah’s short film ‘A Place Called Forward’ on the effect of toxic carbonate pollution on climate change among others. The selection is evident of Nigerian storytelling beyond the frontiers of entertainment alone.

Presiding over the festival’s selection this year is a jury of eight members including; Christian Clark, Onome Ako, John Allan-Namu, Natalie Kyriacou, Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian, Danee Hamaza, Rania Al Jabban, and Lance Gould.

The NGO IFF mobile festival annually brings together thousands of advocacy intervention-driven multimedia content, in a bid to bridge the gap and create an opportunity for sharing knowledge, information and discussions around humanitarian and development projects. 

See the official selection:

Documentary Short/Feature 

 Re-plastic - Sri-Lanka 

They Will Not Silence Our Voices / No Callarán Nuestras Voces - Mexico

Ten Years Of Powering Lives In Africa - Kenya 

FAHARI YETU "Zanzibar Saves Its Sea" - Tanzania

The Clock - Turkey 

Education for Life and Peace - Mexico 

KOODU - India 

Working Dogs - Austria 

Rape of Justice - Nigeria 

RIO by Unique Sights - Brazil 

The Spirit of the Ganga - India 

BREZJAK – SMELLS LIKE A FRAUD! - Serbia 

Up a Tree - Netherlands 

REMEDY - Turkey 

Aravali The lost Mountains - India 

Fount - Turkey

A Burst of Song - Italy 

Olive Oil’s Dark Side - Portugal 

Ashy Vote - Lebanon 

Her Şey Yolunda / Everything Is Fine - Turkey 

Tangled Up in You - Germany 

Mapping Survival - USA 

For Every Girl, A Forest - India 

Ateker - Uganda 

The Wasted Effort - Turkey 

We Could Be Champion Too - Bangladesh 

Subotica Sands - There Are No More Birds - Serbia 

The Hook You Will Not Bite - Argentina 

Between Hell and Paradise/Між пеклом і раєм (15) - Ukraine 

Warning - India 

Earth Women - Nigeria 

Don’t Worry About Me/ Aklin Bende Kalmasin - Turkey 

Haymatlos/Stateless - Turkey 

We Will Be Heard - Brazil 

The Burden of Inheritance - United Kingdom 

The Story of All of Us Women - Spain 

Women of the Wild - Mexico 

Exodus - Greece 

Xabi: A Phantasmagoric Adventure - Indonesia 

Human: An Endangered Species - India 

Mathare River - Kenya 

Short Films 

From Me – the United Kingdom

Risen From the Dust - Sri Lanka 

Reverse - Italy  

Deadly - C - India 

Choice - Pakistan 

Help! - Nigeria

Believe Me - Nigeria 

Clean Plate Nutrition and Therapy Project - Kenya 

A Place Called Forward - Nigeria 

Congenital - Islamic Republic of Iran 

Carmela - Spain 

The Recess - Spain 

Zafi - Nigeria 

Spring Days - Morocco 

Frida - Tunisia 

Two Pigeons - United States of America 

(B)Rain - India  

KHOONAB- Germany 

Traffic Control Tower - Islamic Republic of Iran 

Nobody Told Me - Nigeria 

Ram Hafiz - India 

La Correlazione - Italy 

Perfume - India 

La Linea - Spain 

Liter of Gas - Egypt 

Not Called Home - Nigeria 

Look Around - Italy 

Someone Else's Child (is not your slave) - France 

Roti - Indonesia 

SUNGURA (RABBIT) - Kenya 

Highway Manager - Ghana 

Start a Fire - Nigeria 

Report - India 

Agua - Luxembourg 

The Arrival of Factories - India 

Life in Tight Shoes - Turkey

Experimentals 

The World and Me - Uzbekistan

Vortex - Turkey 

The Beginning of End - Islamic Republic of Iran 

Maybe I Have Never Loved - Brazil 

I Will Tell Everything to God - Algeria 

Waterman - India 

Melody of P - Nigeria 

Crisis - Bangladesh 

Unseen - Kazakhstan

Animation 

I Pity the Garden - Greece 

Binti Maji and the Ocean - Kenya 

Ball - Iraq 

Befriend The Wind - Czech Republic 

A Story by Jeannot- France 

Prince Ki-Ki-Do; Big Flood - Slovenia 

Pacific Operation - Marina and the Spirit of the Sea - Chile 

CITSALP - Philippines 

Water=Life - Germany 

Champion - Tanzania 

Plastic Ecosystem - USA

Watoto Court - Kenya 

What is Wrong with the Global Development Organisation? - United Kingdom