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4 - 12 OCT 2024

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Join our team at HRFFB 2024

Immerse yourself in our programme of powerful films and engaging talks, tackling the current challenges to democracy and human rights – both globally and right on our doorstep. We raise our voices for a more just world. Join us!

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Can Dündar is patron of the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin 2024 / Democracy Noir by Connie Field opens the festival on 4 October

Can Dündar is the patron of the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin 2024, underlining the festival's thematic focus: the seventh edition of the Human Rights Film…

Human Rights Films

Immerse yourself in powerful documentaries on the most pressing human rights issues of our time.

Human Rights Talks

At our Human Rights Talks, experts will discuss the pressing issues of our times. The talks add new perspectives to the film programme and invite the audience…

Human Rights Action

FROM WATCHING TO ACTION:Films have the power to highlight injustices, move people, and inspire a better world. This year, we aim to take a constructive look…

Human Rights Film Festival Berlin präsentiert: Berlin-Premiere „Petra Kelly – Act Now“ am 4. September 2024

Das Human Rights Film Festival Berlin freut sich, die Berlin-Premiere von „Petra Kelly – Act Now“ als Kooperationspartner zu präsentieren. Der Film von Doris…

"Choosing Humanity": New Director Duo and Fresh Approaches for the Seventh Human Rights Film Festival Berlin

The Human Rights Film Festival Berlin (HRFFB) will be held for the seventh time under the theme “Choosing Humanity,” featuring a focused concept and a new…

Queer Rights are Human Rights

Queer people around the world experience violations of their human rights. They are criminalized and persecuted in many parts of the world. Even in Europe,…

Competition 2023

Revealing the Brutality of War - 20 Tage in Mariupol

'20 Days in Mariupol' presents an unparalleled close-up of the siege carried out on the strategic Ukrainian port city during the Russian invasion. Crafted by…

‘I have made peace with the bullet in my head’

Mutlu’s family is proud. This Kurdish woman from the Turkish province of Diyarbakır was just 19 years old when she entered the finals of a nationwide singing…

How deepfakes are undermining our democracy

The Pope in a white puffer jacket might still be funny, but manipulated images pose a real danger. This became evident when the former Mayor of Berlin was…

‘My dream is to be able to write the truth without fear of censorship’

Yasaman Khaleghian is one of the protagonists in the documentary film ‘Sānsūr’, which portrays six Iranian women fighting for freedom. In her essay, Khaleghian…

Can humanitarian aid be neutral?

Humanity, impartiality, independence – and neutrality: these are the four basic principles of humanitarian aid. But the relevance of neutrality is increasingly…

Exiled, hunted, tortured

The documentary ‘Out of Uganda’ depicts the harrowing realities of displaced queer people. ‘You are not my son. You are Satan.’ These are the kind of words…

Humanitarian Journalism

Can stories change lives? As humanitarian journalists, we think so. An essay by Josephine Schmidt, Executive Editor, The New Humanitarian For us at The…

‘Twice Colonized’: The rights of Indigenous people

An interview with Indigenous rights lawyer and activist Aaju Peter In ‘Twice Colonized,’ director Lin Alluna takes us on a remarkable journey into the life…

Child soldiers: Victims or perpetrators?

An essay by Manfred Nowak

Ella’s Riot - A Sámi Story

By Anna Ramskogler-Witt The Sámi are a tough people. Although their habitat in the Nordic regions of Scandinavia and Russia has been under threat for…

‘These are dangerous times’

SPD politician and former Bundestag president Wolfgang Thierse was Willy Brandt's most important interlocutor in the SPD of the GDR. In this interview, he…

Building Ukrainian resilience

Last year, Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) launched a project in Ukraine that is working towards providing new clean technologies for the…

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