Program

This documentary tries to put voice and face to the Giants that, all over the world, fight against hunger and its consequences. To tell us about their struggle, with no intermediaries or filters, these Giants have used mobile phones.

Streets are empty and deserted. Cleaners in hazmat suits hose down surfaces — and each other — with sanitizer. Alarms sound as medical workers shuttle tightly wrapped bodies on gurneys and stretchers. CORONATION gives unseen insights in the lock-down in Wuhan, China, during the Covid-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020.

Since the beginning of the crisis, thousands of refugees have died crossing the Mediterranean and been buried in both marked and unmarked graves in Greece, their final resting places to remain a mystery. This documentary follows the story of Fereshta, an Afghan woman who survived a deadly shipwreck, as she, like thousands of others, searches for her lost loved ones.

The Rohingya in Myanmar are the most persecuted minority in the world. Why, in 2018, were their villages burned to the ground and hundreds of thousands driven from their homes, in a country effectively ruled by Noble Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi? Few conflicts are as complicated as the Rohingya crisis.

FROM HERE is a hopeful story of Tania, Sonny, Miman, and Akim - artists and activists based in Berlin and New York whose lives and futures hang in the balance of immigration and integration debates.