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Years of drought are bringing an Argentinian cattle breeder to the brink of ruin. Within the small cosmos the world’s big problems are reflected: resignation and optimism, life and death.

In Spain, eighteen musicians have been sentenced to prison for making political statements in their lyrics. The Catalan music scene performs their songs and fight for freedom of arts and expression.

Critical journalism in crisis regions poses a particular challenge, especially in patriarchal countries. Three female German journalists give honest insights into their job and its limits.

In Kinshasa, the largest city in Africa, access to electricity is unevenly distributed. Impressive images and sounds portray the fight or the essentials and the life after dark.

In many European countries, abortions, in-vitro fertilisation or euthanasia are illegal. Robin, Kiki, Katerina and Gaia go on a road trip of self-determination through the EU.

Asylum-seekers and sea rescuers meet on board of the Ocean Viking in the Mediterranean. They ask themselves questions about a shared future, basic human rights and living together as equals.

Luca and Bo are climate activists. Over the course of four years, the film watches the teenagers grow and follow their friendship and their joint fight against humanity’s extinction.

Wanjugu Kimathi is searching for the remains of her father, founder of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army. Her activism also includes the remaining freedom fighters, who are still with no land rights.

In the west Bank Palestinian Basel Adra fights against the displacement of its residents caused by the occupation. With the Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham he develops a film in resistance.

Fifteen-year-old Mediha lives in a tent city in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. In her video diary, the young Yazidi girl processes her trauma of her enslavement by the so-called Islamic State.