Stay Home, Watch Together
Powerful Films with Collective Action
#StayHomeWatchTogether is a timely initiative from a dedicated group of impact producers, distributors and documentarists.
From April 14th through April 30th, the #StayHomeWatchTogether programme will be open to viewers across the globe with a schedule of daily screenings and online activities, such as Q&As and panels with film directors and producers.
Here is how to participate:
Step 1: Check out the schedule below and select the film(s) you want to see
Step 2: RSVP for the corresponding screening and Q&A
Step 3: Share our downloadable assets on social media to spread the love
Previous events - Watch on replay
1) RSVP through the form on the page to watch the film (Running time approx 1 hour 15 mins)
2) Join for a live Q&A in English or Portuguese
Were the cities made for women? The film Enough with Catcalling tells the story of Raquel, Rosa and Teresa, who live in three different Brazilian cities and through activism, art and poetry, resist and propose new ways of living in the public space.
1) Stream the film on Curzon Home Cinema (Running time 80 mins)
2) Join for a live Q&A with Curzon Living Room Q&As at 3:30 PM (EST) / 8:30 PM (UK)
Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by ‘music’s biggest colonialist’ Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell. White Riot blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches.
1) Watch the film on Netflix (Running time 2 hr 1 min)
2) Join for the live Q&A: 7 PM (EST) / 1 AM (UK 30th April)
A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis, the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. Combining unprecedented access to leaders past and present, including Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, with accounts of her own family's complex past, filmmaker Petra Costa (ELENA) witnesses their rise and fall and the tragically polarised nation that remains.
1) RSVP through the form on the page to watch the film (Running time approx 1hr 18 mins)
2) Join for the live Q&A in English or Portuguese: 3:30 PM (EST) / 8:30 PM (UK)
It is difficult, during its 78 minutes, not to manage two feelings: enchantment by Mr. Chico's passion for the theatre, which has a strong affective memory; and the air of resistance that arises, along the edges, from the protagonist's act of overlapping the media that seems to swallow the art of going to the cinema.
1) Rent the film on Vimeo (Running time 1 hour 23 mins)
2) Join for the live Q&A: 3 PM (EST) / 8 PM (UK)
Sumercé follows veteran activist Don Eduardo, rising political leader César Pachón and agricultural educator Rosita as they fight their government’s decision to allow companies to carve up the campesinos birthright in rural Colombia and the country's access to freshwater.
1) RSVP through the form on the page to watch the film (Running time approx 1 hour 40 mins)
2) Join for a live Q&A in English or Portuguese
When Brazil’s crisis deepened, students protested and occupied hundreds of schools, demanding better public education. The film depicts the Brazilian student movement from the protests of 2013 until the election of the new president, Jair Bolsonaro, in 2018.
1) Buy or Rent the film on Vimeo (Running time approx 1 hour 33 mins)
2) Join for the live Q&A: 7:00 PM (EST) / 12:00 AM (UK)
Abortion remains legal in the United States but anti-abortion efforts have succeeded in making it virtually inaccessible in some places and in the Deep South, often unthinkable. At one time Mississippi had fourteen abortion clinics. Now only one remains.
1) RSVP through the online form to watch the film (Running time approx 36 mins)
2) Join for the live Q&A: 2:45 PM (EST) / 7:45 PM (UK)
A powerful new documentary following 6 1st-time activists working on gun violence prevention, voting rights & immigrants' rights. 'In the short ten months that @AMarch4OurLives has existed over 60 gun laws have been passed by young people. We have a lot to say, we are powerful and we are enacting change' - Vikiana Petit-Homme
1) Buy or Rent the film on The Mindfulness Movement website (Running time approx 1 hr 40 mins)
2) Join for the live Q&A: 3:40 PM (EST) / 8:40 PM (UK)
From Executive Producers Deepak Chopra and Jewel, comes THE MINDFULNESS MOVEMENT, a feature documentary (100 minutes) that examines the growing number of people throughout society who believe mindfulness - a peaceful quality of attention anyone can develop by simply focusing on the present moment in a non-judgmental way – is the key to creating a healthier, happier world.
1) Watch the film online in the UK or US
(Running time 1 hour 40 mins)
2) Join for the live Q&A: 3:30 PM (EST) / 8:30 PM (UK)
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her.
1) Buy or Rent the film on Vimeo (Running time 1 hour 24 mins)
2) Join for the live Q&A: 3:35 PM (EST) / 8:35 PM (UK)
After many years of prescription medications failed her, a suicidal woman turns to underground healers to try and overcome her depression, anxiety, and opioid addiction with illegal psychedelic medicine, like magic mushrooms and iboga.
1) Watch the film on PBS (Running time 21 mins)
2) Join for the live Q&A: 8:35 PM (EST 22nd April) / 1:30 AM (UK 23rd April)
When an energy company begins searching for natural gas in New Brunswick, Canada, indigenous and white families unite to drive out the company in a campaign to protect their water and way of life.
1) RSVP through the form on this page to watch the film
2) Join for the live Q&A: 12:15 AM (EST) / 5:15 PM (UK)
A 94 year-old Grandmother with a fearless spirit must overcome dangerous accusations of witchcraft that are coming from within her own family. Her grandson Karisa, travels home from the city to investigate, and it gradually emerges who sent the threatening letter and why.
1) Rent / Buy the film on Amazon (Running time 1 hour 21 mins)
2) Join for the live Q&A: 8 PM (EST) / 1 AM (UK 21st April)
The feature documentary COOKED: Survival by Zip Code, a searing exploration into the politics of “disaster,” blends investigative reporting about the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave with a potent argument that the best preparation for a disaster may start with investing in racial and economic justice.
1) Rent / Buy the film on Vimeo (Running time 1 hour 26 mins)
2) Join for the live Q&A: 3:40 PM (EST) / 8:40 PM (UK)
Three kids, ages 10, 8 and 5, spend nine months self-isolating with their family in the Yukon wilderness over a long northern winter. Small cabin, no friends, no internet, no phone, no electricity. For nine months they never once said, “I’m bored”. Find out why.
1) Watch the Film on PBS (Running time 80 mins)
2) Join for the live Q&A: 8:25 PM (EST 18th April) / 1:25 AM (UK 19th April)
In a hidden safehouse in the Ghanaian forest, social workers help two children recover from a childhood enslaved to fishermen on Lake Volta - the largest man-made lake on Earth.
1) Watch the Film via Netflix (Running time 1hr 36 min)
2) Join for the live Q&A: 3:30 PM (EST) / 8.30 PM (UK)
Thirteen years after the suicide of their son and brother, Evelyn, the family decide to walk the length of the UK and try to talk about him - something they had failed to do in over a decade. This poetic feature documentary explores the fabric of grief and the longevity of love.
1) Watch the 5 Short Films on YouTube (Running time Approx 55 mins)
2) Join for the Live Q&A at 7:30 PM (EST) / 12:30 AM (UK 17th April)
Through 26 animated biographical shorts and a public television broadcast hour, we will give the brave, tenacious women who paved the way in male-dominated fields some well-deserved attention and provide a nuanced, inclusive understanding of America’s past.
11.00 AM (EST) / 4.00 PM (UK) : Watch the Film
1.00 PM (EST) 6 PM (UK): RSVP for the Q&A featuring Haifaa Al Mansour (Film Director), In Conversation with Uzma Hasan, with the participation of Mia Bays (Birds’ Eye View - Reclaim the Frame)
A determined young doctor who decides to run for municipal council sweeps up her family and community as they struggle to accept their town’s first female candidate and watch her fight for social change on a local level.
An unflinching, verité-style exposé, “The Nightcrawlers” follows a determined group of photojournalists on their mission to chronicle the deadly battle being waged against the Philippines’ drug epidemic — and the tragic cost of this brutal crusade.