Nigist Anteneh as Tiya (segment "Tiya's Dream")

Tefera Gizaw as Tiya's father (segment "Tiya's Dream")

Fekadu Kebede as Teacher (segment "Tiya's Dream")

Ingvar E. Sigurðsson as Father (segment "The Letter")

Hringur Ingvarsson as Son (segment "The Letter")

Dieudonné Ilboudo as Man (segment "SIDA")

Konkona Sen Sharma as Zeinab (segment "How can it be ?")

Ranvir Shorey as Arif (segment "How can it be ?")

Birsa Chatterjee as Son (segment "How can it be?")

Alice Englert as Ziggy (segment "The Water Diary")

Tintin Marova Kelly as Sam (segment "The Water Diary")

Isidore Tillers as Felicity Miles (segment "The Water Diary")

Harry Greenwood as Simon (segment "The Water Diary")

Miranda Jakich as Mrs. Miles (segment "The Water Diary")

Justine Clarke as Mother (segment "The Water Diary")

Russell Dykstra as Father (segment "The Water Diary")

Ian Abdulla as Lunch Guest (segment "The Water Diary")

Di Adams as Lunch Guest (segment "The Water Diary")

Chris Haywood as Lunch Guest (segment "The Water Diary")

Loydi Hucshva Haynas as Panshin Beka (segment "The story of Panshin Beka")

Olivia Aravelo Lomos as Nonna (segment "The story of Panshin Beka")

Denis Rafael Barbaran as Marito (segment "The story of Panshin Beka")

Auristela Brito Valles as Panshin Beka's friend (segment "The story of Panshin Beka")

Pendo Duku as (segment "Person to Person")

Tsehaie Kidane as (segment "Person to Person") (as Tsehaie Abraham Kidane)

Megan Gay as Ronda (segment "Person to Person")

Bhasker Patel as (segment "Person to Person")

Robert Seeliger as (segment "Person to Person")

Ian T. Dickinson as Frank (segment "Person to Person")

Tomas Spencer as Seymour (segment "Person to Person")

Gerhard Gutberlet as (segment "Person to Person")

Aminata M. Kalokoh as (segment "Person to Person")

Mena Z. Kalokoh as (segment "Person to Person")

Augusto Aguilera as Lender (segment "Person to Person")

Aba Arthur as African Borrower (segment "Person to Person")

Bob Geldof as Himself

Melissa Butts as Lender

Youssou N'Dour as Himself

Campino as Himself

Lavetta Cannon as African Borrower (segment "Person to Person")

Luis Fernandez-Gil as Guatemalan Borrower (segment "Person to Person")

Herbert Grönemeyer as Himself

Yolanda Hester as African Borrower (segment "Person to Person")

Michael Lehr as Lender (segment "Person to Person")

Angela Malhotra as Borrower - East Indian (segment "Person to Person")

Marta Cross as Costa Rican Borrower (segment "Person to Person") (as Marta McGonagle)

Vanessa Paul as The Lender (segment "Person to Person")

Shai Fali as Borrower- East Indian (segment "Person to Person") (as Shaifali Ratti)

Kaius Harrison as Lender (segment "Person to Person") (as Kharrison Sweeney)

Rodney Charles as Lender

Constance Ejuma as African Borrower (segment "Person to Person")

Susanne Herrmann as (segment "Person to Person")

Grace Matias as Lawyer

Pendo Nyinondi as African Borrower 'Person to Person' (as Pendo)

Jessica Shelby as (segment "Person to Person")

Jennifer Popagain as Panamanian Borrower (segment "Person to Person")

Geneviève Lemon as Pam Garner (segment "The Water Diary")