Finding Hope
Across continents and generations, storytellers have carried the quiet work of healing, turning memory into meaning, and hardship into pathways of hope. Finding Hope is part of a multi-year journey to honour these storytellers and bring their voices forward. From Rwanda to India, and to communities often overlooked or misrepresented by mainstream narratives, we seek to illuminate lives shaped by hope, justice, and creativity.
These short film series invite viewers into intimate, lived worlds, where art becomes a lifeline, and transformation, and storytelling becomes an act of reclaiming dignity. Each story is a conversation starter for activists, communities in motion, and audiences searching for authentic, unfiltered truths.
Through this work, we aim to help communities not only be seen, but to reframe their own stories that the world has not yet learned to hear.
The First Story: Hope Azeda
Set in post-genocide Rwanda, the story follows the inspiring journey of Hope Azeda, a Rwandese artist and survivor. The film celebrates the power of art and culture as transformative forces and serves as a tribute to those who seek hope amidst injustice and hardship worldwide. It was screened To be released in the summer of 2024, in memory of the 30th anniversary of one of humanity’s darkest pages – the Rewanda genocide (1994).
The Second Story: Nisha Abdulla
A Bengali performance artist rooted in the lived experience of her people, Nisha Abdulla brings theatre into the streets, courtyards, and community centres of Bengal’s most vulnerable Muslim neighbourhoods. Her work confronts the caste boundaries that fracture daily life, reclaiming storytelling as a tool of resistance, rehumanisation, and collective healing. This short film follows Nisha’s journey: her devotion to community, her struggle for justice, and her belief that art can return dignity to those who have been pushed to the margins, including her own. This film is in development.
