From Linda:
Food justice recognizes access to healthy and culturally appropriate food as a basic human right. It’s about more than just having enough fresh food to eat — it’s also about agricultural heritage; BIPOC-led land reclamation; and food sovereignty. A food system based on diverse, regional, and traditional knowledge and practices is a necessary part of ensuring people’s right to healthy food, clean air and water, and safe jobs with fair wages.
Agricultural heritage shows us how communities have and keep intricate relationships with the land and delicate, biodiverse ecosystems while establishing security through resilient food systems based on traditional knowledge.
Meanwhile Indigenous food sovereignty teaches us about the importance of Native nations governing their sacred traditions of catching, growing, and producing healthy, natural food for their communities on land that’s their own.
And struggles for land reclamation remind us of the deep cultural and spiritual relationship that many Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities have with land that was taken away during centuries of violence and oppression. That land is now being reclaimed through BIPOC-led solutions, like community farm and training programs rooted in ancestral and cultural values to provide equitable opportunities for farmers, land stewards, and entrepreneurs to obtain land and grow and harvest food.
This year’s Food Justice Film Festival will feature four documentary films. Check out our lineup below and make sure to catch all our recorded interviews with filmmakers, activists, and organizers — the interviews will be available online the week before the festival.
You can watch the 2025 films any time between Oct. 23 and Oct. 26.
