Intercontinental feature documentary
The earth comes alive through the lives of three women in the Global South who are fighting to protect it. In Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Mostofa holds on to a fragile piece of land marked by salt and memory. In Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, Shamu sustains life through care on a land shaped by dust and displacement. In Colombia’s Catatumbo region, María defends her territory through collective struggle.
Their worlds are separated by oceans, languages, and histories, yet their lives reveal a powerful common thread: the land they call home is inseparable from their identity, dignity, and future.
SOUTH TO SOUTH is a documentary born from years of community filmmaking across three continents. Through the work of Historias en Kilómetros (HEK), local filmmaking teams in Colombia, Kenya, and Bangladesh have developed the relationships and creative language that make this encounter possible. These filmmakers come together as a single production unit to bring these three women into a story they have never shared before, connecting their intimate daily lives, landscapes, memories, and acts of resistance into a single narrative.
SOUTH TO SOUTH is an experiment in creating a new kind of intercontinental narrative—one in which communities from the Global South tell their own stories and discover what they have in common. Your support helps make this encounter possible and contributes to building a new future for community cinema: one where storytellers travel across borders, where stories connect distant communities, and where we recognize our shared humanity, from South to South.
Historias en Kilómetros (HEK) is a Colombian non-profit, community-based film laboratory that empowers historically invisibilized communities across the Global South to tell their own stories through cinema.
