Heroines of Health With introduction by Desta Lakew, Chair, Women in Global Health Africa Today women make up 75% of the global healthcare workforce, yet too often their work is unrecognized. These are three of many untold stories that may hold the key to unlocking better health for more people around the world. Mercy, Dr. Sharmila and Mrs. Rohani come from different backgrounds. They speak different languages. Yet they share a common journey, overcoming steep challenges and expectations to bring better health to their communities. Documentary/US/English/29 minutes/2017 Director: Lisa Russell Producer: GE Healthcare Kyenvu Winner of the Best Short Award at the Pan African Film Festival 2018, Kyenvu tells the story of an unexpected love affair that is formed at a taxi stop in Uganda and is forever changed by a wardrobe choice. Drama/Uganda/English/20 minutes/2018 Director: Kemiyendo Coutinho Producer: Kemiyendo Coutinho The Camel’s Back A young girl suffering from past trauma believes that she has one day left to live. She sets out on a journey to find her one paradise before it happens. This film was winner of the ‘Short Films’ and ‘East African Fiction’ categories at the Mashariki Africa Film Festival in 2017. Drama/Kenya/English/22 minutes/2017 Director: Ari Michelle Mboya Producer: Wangechi Ngugi The screenings will be followed by a Q & A session with the directors.

With introduction by Sophie Harman, Producer. Pili lives in rural Tanzania, working the fields for less than $2 a day to feed her two children and struggling to manage her HIV-positive status in secret. When she is offered the chance to rent a sought-after market-stall, Pili is desperate to have it. But with only two days to get the deposit together, Pili is forced to make increasingly difficult decisions with ever-deepening consequences. How much will she risk to change her life? Pili is the first ever social-realist feature film to focus on women living with HIV in East Africa. It is one of the few films made in Africa that features an ensemble female cast and that uses almost entirely non-actors. The process of making the film was also unique. From the close collaboration with the women throughout the development of the story, to the casting process and the mixture of improvisation and scripted techniques used during the shoot. Pili is a singular collaboration between the filmmakers and the community, to tell the story of the community by the people who live there. Drama/UK/Swahili/83 minutes/2017 Director: Leanne Welham Producer: Sophie Harman

Winner of the Academy Award® for Best Documentary (Short Subject), Saving Face tells the story of plastic surgeon Dr. Mohammad Jawad who left his prominent London practice to return to his home country and help the victims of acid attacks. Two of these women, Zakia and Rukhsana, are victims of brutal acid attacks by their husbands and in Rukhsana’s case, her in-laws as well. Both attempt to bring their assailants to justice and move on with their lives with the help of NGOs, sympathetic policymakers, politicians, support groups with other acid attack victims and Dr. Jawad. Saving Face also depicts a Pakistan that is changing - one where ordinary people can stand up and make a difference and where marginalized communities can seek justice. The screening will be followed by a Q & A session with Dr. Mohammad Jawad, pioneering Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive, and Burns Surgeon Documentary/Pakistan/English/Urdu/40 minutes/2012 Director: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Daniel Junge Producer: HBO Films

How can film, music, poetry and street art elevate the promises of the 1994 Cairo Conference? Join a panel of award-winning international artists in a unique fireside chat as they share and showcase their innovative arts and storytelling projects that have helped change the narrative of reproductive health, women’s empowerment and gender equality to engage a wider audience. Artists include: • Ayanda Makayi, musician and actor from MTV Shuga (South Africa) • Wise Two, graffiti artist (Kenya) • Charlotte Hill O’Neal, poet, musician and visual artist (Tanzania) • Poeta Dennis, poet and founder of The Art East Hub (Kenya) • Buddha Blaze, music manager/producer, founder of Nairobi Hip Hop and host of The Blaze Podcast (Kenya) • DJ Mix Master Lenny, DJ (Kenya) • Lisa Russell, filmmaker and Founder of Create2030 (USA)

With introduction by a representative of the Government of Ireland Circumcised at eight. Raped by wandering militiamen at twelve. Fully infibulated again at thirteen, and then married off to a fifty-year-old man who regularly beat her; Ifrah Ahmed runs away to a place she had once known as home in war torn Mogadishu to find it had become the kind of battleground now known as “Black Hawk Down.” Ifrah makes the extraordinary journey out of war-torn Somalia and arrives not in Minnesota, USA, as she had been led to believe, but Dublin, Ireland. Within months she is campaigning for better conditions for asylum — seekers arriving in Ireland. She quickly becomes a leading activist against gender-based violence and fights through her campaign work for the abandonment of FGM world-wide. The screening will be followed by a Q & A session with Ifrah Ahmed, founder of the Ifrah Foundation Drama/Somalia/English/112 minutes/2019 Director: Mary McGuckian Producer: Mary McGuckian, Adrian Politowski

Combining Emmy-winning filmmaker, Lisa Russell’s 15+ years of expertise as a global health filmmaker with Pixar in a Box's interactive lessons, the SDG Storytelling Master Class provides participants with insight and activities on the craft of storytelling for the social good. From character development to story structure to finding and pitching projects, the Master Class helps participants explores solutions-focused and character-driven narratives that compel people to act for justice, health equity and human rights.

“If we do not stand up for ourselves, nobody will.” Tahira, Bamiyan Cycling Team Member, Afghanistan Following a new generation of young Afghan women cyclists, Afghan Cycles uses the bicycle to tell a story of women's rights - human rights - and the struggles faced by Afghan women on a daily basis, from discrimination to abuse, to the oppressive silencing of their voices in all aspects of contemporary society. These women ride despite cultural barriers, despite infrastructure, and despite death threats, embracing the power and freedom that comes with the sport. Afghan Cycles spans a four-year period, from 2013 to 2017. As the stories of these brave women develop and evolve, the security situation in Afghanistan worsens. Women bear the brunt of this shift, and as Afghanistan deals with growing security threats, it jeopardizes these female riders and Afghan women as a whole. Documentary/Afghanistan/France/USA/Dari/90 mins/2018 Director: Sarah Menzies Producer: Sarah Menzies, Shannon Galpin, Caryn Capotosto, Anna Brones, Jenny Nichols

With introduction by Maria Efrosinina, UNFPA Honorary Ambassador The film follows Aisholopan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter a tradition that has been handed down from father to son for centuries. While there are many old Kazakh eagle hunters who vehemently reject the idea of any female taking part in their ancient tradition, Aisholpan’s father Nurgaiv believes that a girl can do anything a boy can, as long as she’s determined. Set against the breathtaking expanse of the Mongolian steppe, the film features some of the most awe-inspiring cinematography ever captured in a documentary. The story begins after Aisholpan has been training with her father’s eagle for many months. As every eagle can only have one master, the time has come for Aisholpan to capture an eagle of her own. Clambering down a sheer rock cliff with a rope, Aisholpan retrieves a fledgling eagle from its nest as its mother circles overhead. Her eagle will live, train, and hunt with her, until she releases it into the wild years later. After months of training her eagle with her father, Aisholpan is ready to test her abilities, entering a renowned competition against 70 of the greatest Kazakh eagle hunters in Mongolia. Documentary/Mongolia/Kazakh/87 minutes/2016 Director: Otto Bell Producer: Stacey Reiss, Sharon Chang

With introduction by Boglárka Csősz, actress and UNFPA ‘Let’s Talk’ champion Oscar nominee Feras Fayyad (“Last Men in Aleppo”) delivers an unflinching story of the Syrian war with his powerful new documentary, The Cave. For besieged civilians, hope and safety lie underground inside the subterranean hospital known as the Cave, where pediatrician and managing physician Dr. Amani Ballour and her colleagues Samaher and Dr. Alaa have claimed their right to work as equals alongside their male counterparts, doing their jobs in a way that would be unthinkable in the oppressively patriarchal culture that exists above. Following the women as they contend with daily bombardments, chronic supply shortages and the ever-present threat of chemical attacks, The Cave paints a stirring portrait of courage, resilience and female solidarity. Documentary/Syria/English/95 minutes/2019 Producer: Sigrid Dyekjær, Kirstine Barfod Director: Feras Fayyad