Watch the 2024 ILGA World Conference documentary

We are proud to present you with the official documentary about the 2024 ILGA World Conference!

Accessibility: captions (recommended) and transcriptions are available in English and Spanish.

If you have ever been to an ILGA conference, you know how it feels like: these are moments of community, solidarity, and warmth — moments that our global LGBTI populations builds on to bring about change for everyone.

In November 2024, 1,450 persons from over 100 countries gathered in Cape Town, South Africa for the 31st ILGA World Conference — hosted by local organisations Iranti and Gender DynamiX under the theme “Kwa umoja we rise”, referencing a phrase in Swahili that celebrates unity and collective progress.

Returning to the African soil for the first time in 2025 years, the event was the largest in the history of the organisation. It brought together hundreds of LGBTI human rights defenders and development experts, policy makers, international human rights mechanisms experts, government representatives, researchers, journalists, funders, and allies— responding in global solidarity to the ongoing anti-rights pushback.

Watch our documentary about this historic event!

Accessibility: captions (recommended) and transcriptions are available in English and Spanish.

Produced by ILGA World
Directed by Daría Poncio, Kellyn Botha, and Daniele Paletta
Camera and editing: Daría Poncio and Kellyn Botha
Additional footage by Carl Collison, Beyond The Margins (www.beyondthemargins.africa)
Interviews coordination: Suelle Anglin
Transcriptions and translations: Daniele Paletta and Daría Poncio
Music (YouTube Audio Library):  

• “A good day on the African planes”, by Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions 
• “Havana Brazhumba”, by Ezra Lipp
• “Nomads”, by The Mini Vandals

Special thanks to Iranti; Gender DynamiX; Century City Conference Centre; Event Management Solutions; conference sponsors and partners; and all our member organisations!