Human Rights Film Festival Berlin

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2022: A Year in a Nutshell

Welcome to 2023! We at the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin are looking forward to a new year full of outstanding documentaries, inspiring encounters and eye…

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Monthly Screening

HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS: MOVIES THAT MATTER Every month we will show one film from previous festival programs at the City Kino Wedding. In…

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Embassy Programme 2022/23

Over 15,000 visitors experienced the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin 2022 as a place of encounter, exchange and inspiration with over 40 outstanding…

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Laureate 2022
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„Outside“ wins competition

Ukrainian film ‘Outside’ wins Human Rights Film Festival Berlin competition / Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi presented with honorary award Berlin, 21 October…

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Solidarity with women in Iran: Shirin Ebadi honored with HRFFB prize

The Human Rights Film Festival Berlin is presenting Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi with an Honorary Award for Democracy and Freedom – on behalf…

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Focus: Ukraine

Since 1991, when Ukraine broke away from Russia as an independent state in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, there have been recurring tensions…

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Documentary ‘Ithaka’ about Julian Assange to open the fifth Human Rights Film Festival Berlin

Berlin, 11 September 2022. The fifth Human Rights Film Festival Berlin will present 41 films on the current state of human rights in the world from 13 to 23…

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HRFFB 2022
OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
FILMS THAT WILL MOVE YOU.

This year, the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin was dedicated to people who risk everything for their convictions. Who fight for their freedom and show us that a better future is possible.  Watch the opening and award ceremony on Youtube now. 

Magazine 2022
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Focus: New Narratives

New Narratives – How to Decolonise Storytelling We want to find out how to break through and diversify dominant narratives and news coverage. Together with…

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Focus: Gender Equality

Female empowerment and gender equality are among the most powerful means to achieve a more peaceful, just and equal world - the current protests in Iran show…

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Focus: Climate Justice

The people suffering the most from the effects of climate crisis are not responsible for it. They are not responsible for ecological destruction either…

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Focus: Forgotten Conflicts

Which crises and conflicts do we talk about, which wars do we see in the news every day - and which do we not? War crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo,…

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