Film Program Now Online: 40 International Documentary Films

The future is now. If you care about this world‘s fate, check out how people give their everything to make it a better place. Female empowerment. The bold fight for freedom of speech. Saving the climate. The stirring stories of refugees. This is the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin 2020. From September 30th to October 10th.

 

 

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In My Blood It Runs

"I want to be an Aborigine," says 10-year-old Dujuan. He comes from a family of Arrernte Aborigine, is already a healer and speaks three languages fluently. But those talents have no place in a …

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Mai Khoi & The Dissidents

Her first song made her famous, her latest one made her a political refugee. With a single song about her home country, the Vietnamese singer Mai Khoi gained money, popularity, and the blessing of…

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Máxima

The incredible story of Máxima Acuña and her family, who own a small, remote plot in the Peruvian Highlands. The Acuñas rely solely on the environment for their livelihood, but their land is…

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Mrs F.

Imagine a floating theatre stage in Makoko, the largest slum situated on water in Nigeria. Here, Mrs F. wants to unite women and perform the play called "Hear Word". She dreams that this performance…

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SOFTIE

Photographer and activist Boniface “Softie” Mwangi prioritizes his family, country, and God, but not in that order. Determined to see an end to political corruption and the British imposed colonial…

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Stop Filming Us

A growing group of young adults in the Democratic Republic of Congo are resisting the western one-sided reporting of their country: stereotypical images of war, violence, and poverty. Three young…

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Talking with the Dead

In 2017, twenty-five years after the war, a mass grave is discovered in a pine forest in the north of Bosnia. Darija Vujinovic visits families awaiting the identification of their missing persons…

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The Forbidden Strings

Akbar, Hakim, Mohammad, and Suri are descendants of Afghan immigrants in Iran. During the day, they work in their parents’ shops, but at night they escape into their own world: rock music. In a small…

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Tiny Souls

9-year-old Marwa is a lively, inquisitive child. She and her family live in the world’s largest camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan but hope to return home soon. Weeks turn into years and Marwa…

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Radio Silence

The incorruptible journalist Carmen Aristegui is one of the few voices in Mexico with the courage to speak the truth. As a result, millions listen as she unveils a corruption scandal involving the…

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2. SEPTEMBER 2020