By VIRGINIA PITTARO | DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS
Welcome to the 2025 Edition of Cinema Across Borders (CAB). We are thrilled to have launched another powerful year of global impact storytelling!
In collaboration with local leaders, human rights forums, film festivals, and grassroots organizations, SIMA’s year-round traveling series brings award-winning films to diverse communities around the globe. These screenings are designed to spark meaningful conversations, build coalitions, and inspire change around the issues that matter most.
This year, 35 partners across 30 countries are uniting under the CAB umbrella to amplify voices, foster empathy, and mobilize action through film.
In May, South Africa led the way with docLOVE hosting screenings in Cape Town, East London and Bloemfontein. The films Union and Twice Colonized at Bertha House in Cape Town encouraged dialogue on social justice issues within urban communities. In East London, Twice Colonized screened at Film Hub promoted local documentary appreciation and Made in Ethiopia connected audiences to global narratives of resilience. Meanwhile Family in Transition brought awareness and celebration of queer narratives in Bloemfontein.
In June, our partner in San Pedro Sula, Honduras screened Ifine (Beauty) at UNITEC inspiring youth to reflect on gender equality and their own agency for change.
In July, Marea Producciones hosted an impactful line up in Tumaco, Colombia with the screenings of the short The Barber of Little Rock offering insights into economic equity and community resilience and the featured documentary Igualada celebrating grassroots activism. Both screenings were hosted at La Perla independent cinema to increase cultural access in underserved areas.
Finally, in August we witnessed a continental wave of impact in Africa with 17 screenings across Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Malawi, and Liberia. With our partners Leap Africa, docLOVE, Mental Voices Africa, Change A Child Community Initiative and Leemah addressing issues such as gender equality, human rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ narratives, sustainability, peace and justice, and disability inclusion through a diverse and powerful line up of eye opening films such as Union, Twice Colonized, And So I Stayed, Weaving Dreams, The Happiness Shop, A Hand to Hold, Jack and Sam, Zurawski v. Texas, This Is Where I Learned Not to Sleep, Empowerment in Action, Into The Blue, Minerita, and Eternal Father.
Thank you so much for enabling us to continue transforming witnesses into agents of change through Cinema Across Borders!
With warmth and gratitude from all of us at SIMA.
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