Document Film Festival - We Are Not Powerless

After fleeing Afghanistan, a couple stranded in Indonesia start a school, transforming the lives of hundreds of fellow refugees. International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival returns for the month of November. Our venues are all in the Southside this year at The Glad Cafe, The Deepend @ Govanhill Baths Community Trust and The Back Bit @ Park Lane Market. We will be showcasing 13 international documentaries from across the globe. Thursday Screenings at The Deepend @ Govanhill Community Baths Trust. Saturday Screenings between The Glad Cafe and the Back Bit @ Park Lane Market. We will be fundraising for Gaza Soup Kitchen and Medical Aid for Palestinians. Recommended donations: £5 per film; But pay as much or as little as you can afford - no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please note that as we are using recommended rather than fixed ticket prices, eventbrite will only allow you to purchase one ticket at a time. We will have tickets available on the door throughout the festival cash/card. We Are Not Powerless. Muzafar Ali /Jolyon Hoff / 2025 / Austrailia /90m In December 2012, Muzafar Ali and his wife Nagina escaped the Taliban in Afghanistan. They found themselves living in Indonesia when Australia 'stopped the boats'. With a small group of refugees, they received a $200 donation and founded a two-room school. Since then, the schools in Indonesia have grown and there are now over 1300 refugee students and 130 refugee teachers. The students are obtaining school leaving certificates and entering universities around the world. Alumni from the schools have spoken at the United Nations and become doctors, teachers and lawyers, and they are returning to support the schools in Indonesia, where many went to school for the first time in their lives. This powerful, emotional and decades-long narrative, anchored by Muzafar and Nagina's love story, takes the audience inside the life of a refugee in a way that has never been captured before. 'We Are Not Powerless' tells the story of what happens when people refuse to give up on each other. The Director Jolyon Hoff will attend the screening.