Sámi singer Ella is torn between her strong ties to her hometown in Finnmark and her new life in Oslo, where she has a boyfriend and a successful career with her band ISÁK. When a mining company threatens the Sámi’s land and water, Ella makes a decision: protesting from the stage is not enough.
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.
For ten years, the journalists at ‘Eliat Rooz’, Afghanistan's largest daily newspaper, have been investigating corruption and abuse of power, for which the independent publication received an award from Transparency International in 2020.
Three women, three countries, three struggles: courageous activists Bertha, Carolina and Máxima are fighting global environmental destruction in Peru, Honduras and Brazil. They speak out about corporations in the EU and US deliberately accepting the destruction of the environment and human life in the name of profit.
They call it ‘the game’: the life-threatening journey that many unaccompanied minors undertake to seek protection in Western Europe. For Sajid Khan Nasiri, the game began at age 14 after the Taliban killed his father in Afghanistan.
Diplomacy is Andrei Sannikov’s life. In the 1990s, he was instrumental in disarming Belarus and decommissioning the world’s most dangerous nuclear arsenal. Under Lukashenko’s dictatorship, he resigned from the civil service in protest and took the dangerous path of opposition.
As the fate of the Amazon basin hangs in the balance, so too does the fate of its Indigenous communities. Since 2014, at least 600 Indigenous forest guardians have been murdered while protecting their territories.
Tanks and snipers target the gardens between the houses. For one month, the Russian army occupies the small Ukrainian town of Bucha near Kiev. When forces withdraw in March 2022, the houses have been destroyed and the civilian population executed.