We Rise for Our Land (2020)

• social
• political
• documentary

Logline

An exploration of the complexities and contentions of land struggles in 3 countries in Southern Africa- Eswatini, Mozambique, and Zambia. The protagonists are rural women who both work the land and mobilize for legislation to put themselves at the center of decision-making around land use.

Plot Summary

Repression and criminalisation of social movements across the Southern African Development Community region, targeted at land activists and smallholder farmers have become a major area of concern. In almost every S.A.D.C country, the rights of individuals or groups to exercise fundamental democratic rights to protect themselves from land alienations spearheaded by dominant capital working with African states as well as to occupy land has been limited and in some cases denied by the state.