Events

Reel Justice Film Festival – “Bigger Than Us”

Event Date: April 25, 2024

The Reel Justice Film Festival is back! We have five engaging documentaries to open our minds and hearts to the challenges and opportunities around us. Our films this year focus on land and placemaking, tackling themes of food sovereignty, land rights, endangered species, and organic agriculture.

April 25, 2024

Bigger Than Us

Theme: Youth Power

Location: Online screening

Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes, 2021

Time: 7:00 p.m. ET

Speaker: Peter Mahfouz, Caritas Lebanon

The film tells the journey of Melati Wijsen, who decides to go around the globe to meet her peers, young activists just like her, who already have managed to have a huge impact in their fields thanks to their convictions and determination. Melati can feel that the clock is ticking and that change is too slow. She wants, she needs to understand what is preventing change. To join forces. And to come up with her new plan.