Jireen – Sharing Land

The community-led film project Jireen – Sharing Land, by Echi Gabbert and Ginno Ballo, will be partly shown as work-in-progress footage. They will also discuss the ongoing journey of collaborative filmmaking and project development in an agro-pastoral Arbore community in southern Ethiopia and explore what it means to protect community ownership. They will share their experience of what decolonial collaboration means in practice: not only changing language and participation, but redesigning processes when existing structures undermine equity.