Human Rights Film Festival Berlin

A woman covers her face with a scarf – she does not want to be filmed – but the camera continues to point at her. This scene is from a documentary by a Dutch film team. Their aim is to portray life in Goma, a large city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. But are they even the right ones to tell this story? Should they stop filming instead?

Igor Tuleya has lost his immunity. For the government, he is public enemy number one, because Poland's ruling PiS party is striving for unlimited control. Standing in its way are the independent courts, and with them, people like Igor, who is a judge.

Mir Hussain first appears in this film when he is eight years old. His life is marked by poverty; his family lives in a cave in rural Afghanistan. To support his father, he stops going to school at an early age and works instead. Over the years, Mir grows up, marries and starts a family. But to escape poverty, they move to the city.