Shot in Nambia, Sweden and England, River of Memory documents Himba leaders’ moving and eloquent protests against the building of a hydropower dam on their land along the Cunene River, bordering Namibia and Angola. Arresting images of the river explore landscapes that will be lost should the building of the dam go ahead. Questions about the relationships between globalisation and development, land rights and cultural survival pervade this disturbing and beautiful documentary.

The soundtrack deserves special mention: much of it produced by travelling South Africans together with Himba musicians on the banks of the river.