We are very pleased to award two prizes again this year. For the fifth time, the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation, together with the festival, is awarding the Willy Brandt Documentary Film Prize for Freedom and Human Rights to a film for its outstanding artistic and content-related achievements.

We are also very pleased to be able to present an audience award for the first time.

The award ceremony will take place on the final evening of the festival, on October 20. Peter Brandt, member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation, will give the laudation and present the prize.

Willy Brandt Documentary Award for Freedom and Human Rights

The prize is endowed with 3,000 EUR by the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation and honors a documentary film for its outstanding artistic and content-related achievements.

Films in Competition

Between the Rains

12.10. | 00:01 | Stream
13.10. | 19:00 | Hackesche Höfe Kino
14.10. | 20:30 | Zeiss Großplanetarium
15.10. | 19:00 | City Kino Wedding
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Between the Rains

Persistent drought is putting the lands and culture of northern Kenya’s Turkana-Ngaremara people in jeopardy, causing problems with wildlife and increasing tensions between rival tribes. Meanwhile, orphaned shepherd boy Kolei waits impatiently to begin his journey as a traditional warrior.

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Beyond Utopia

14.10. | 19:00 | Hackesche Höfe Kino
16.10. | 17:00 | City Kino Wedding
22.10. | 18:30 | SPUTNIK Kino am Südstern
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Beyond Utopia

A country is turning its inhabitants into prisoners. Anyone who tries to leave North Korea risks imprisonment, torture and even execution. At the same time, they are exposed to potential exploitation by unscrupulous traffickers. Nevertheless, a family of five with two young children dares to make the dangerous journey.

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Breaking the Brick

12.10. - 31.10. | Stream
12.10. | 19:00 | Hackesche Höfe Kino
13.10. | 18:30 | SPUTNIK Kino am Südstern
15.10. | 21:00 | City Kino Wedding
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Breaking the Brick

It starts with coordinated fare evasions by a few students in 2019. But soon, millions of people in Chile are taking a stand in a popular uprising. They are demanding nothing less than the resignation of President Sebastian Piñera, a new constitution and an end to ‘the brick’ – the neoliberal economic model of the Pinochet dictatorship.

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Colette and Justin

12.10. - 31.10. | Stream
18.10. | 21:00 | City Kino Wedding
19.10. | 19:00 | Hackesche Höfe Kino
22.10. | 20:30 | SPUTNIK Kino am Südstern
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Colette and Justin

How well do you know your family? Alain Kassandra has been asking himself this question for a long time. His grandfather Justin and grandmother Colette are closely intertwined with the history of their home country, the Democratic Republic of Congo. But they have always remained silent.

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Holding Up The Sky

12.10. - 31.10. | Stream
16.10. | 19:00 | City Kino Wedding
18.10. | 18:30 | SPUTNIK Kino am Südstern
22.10. | 21:00 | ACUDkino
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Holding Up The Sky

If the shamans stop dancing and life in the rainforest loses its balance, the sky will collapse and crush everything beneath it. This story has been passed down in the Brazilian Amazon by every generation of Yanomami. But greed for gold is polluting rivers and poses a threat to the Yanomami. Their shamans are dying as the earth warms.

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My Name Is Happy

12.10. - 31.10. | Stream
13.10. | 21:00 | ACUDkino
14.10. | 18:30 | Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung
17.10. | 19:00 | City Kino Wedding
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My Name Is Happy

Mutlu Kaya is just 19 when her dream of making it as a singer comes close enough to touch: she is about to enter the finale of the TV show ‘Turkey’s Got Talent’. But then, a man guns down the Kurdish teenager. His motive: Mutlu rejected his marriage proposal. She barely survives and is left with a bullet in her head.

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Sānsūr

12.10. - 31.10. | Stream
14.10. | 20:30 | SPUTNIK Kino am Südstern
15.10. | 22:00 | Hackesche Höfe Kino
16.10. | 21:00 | City Kino Wedding
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Sānsūr

Six Iranian women speak about life in a country that demands their silence. Six women who courageously defy the written and unwritten restrictions on freedom of expression in Iran. An artist who wants to draw female characters and perform plays.

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While We Watched

17.10. | 21:00 | City Kino Wedding
19.10. | 20:30 | SPUTNIK Kino am Südstern
21.10. | 21:00 | ACUDkino
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While We Watched

Indian television journalist Ravish Kumar appears on primetime television – and he is on edge. For many years, his news channel has been known for its solid research, fact-based analysis and independent journalism.

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12. SEPTEMBER 2023