Filmmaker Rich Felgate's film 'We, The Hated' had its world premiere as the opening night film of Sheffield Doc Fest, where the film received a standing ovation. Rich spent four years filming the people behind one of the most polarising movements in recent memory: Just Stop Oil. With fossil fuels driving both the climate crisis and global conflict, and governments increasingly cracking down on dissent, the film raises urgent questions about protest, power and what democracy actually means in practice.

Filmmaker Tshililo waha Muzila travels from a diverse yet racially divided South Africa to Spain, where an initial warm welcome quickly gives way to a harder truth: the systemic prejudice faced by displaced West African immigrants in the region. 

As part of a reciprocity stay, the Congolese Civil Society of South Africa (CCSSA) teamed up with Bertha Retreat for a one-day capacity-building training that turned big, complicated legal topics into real talk for real people.

This powerful photoessay published by Greg Constantine, a 2026 Bertha Challenge Fellow, reveals the complex and elusive ways ICE’s abductions and immigration detentions are impacting local communities, especially in rural, pro-Trump states.