The forest remembers

MIGRANTS: The plight of refugees trapped by geopolitical manoeuvres at the EU border.

The law and the lost

IMMIGRATION: Borders are all in the mind, Loretta van Horst's powerful film about US border patrol officers trying to stop people smuggling from Mexico, The Border Crossed Us, shows.

Guardians of the green

NATURE: Follow the journey of a Finnish grassroots movement advocating for stricter forest protection.

The case of the mighty stick figures

INDIA: Indian cartoonist Rachita Taneja's struggle against censorship and legal threats for her politically charged cartoons critical of the country's direction.

Death, everywhere

IRAQ: The hopes and broken dreams of a generation who has known nothing but war since the country's U.S.-led occupation.

Beyond blood and soil

IDENTITY: The struggle for cultural identity in Mongolia, where the legacy of Genghis Khan meets modern challenges, through the eyes of a determined activist mother.

The changing mindset among young American Jews

ISRAEL: Exploring the shift in American Jewish support for Israel through personal journeys of disillusionment and activism.

Ending the gender apartheid

An Unfinished Journey, a film that had its world premiere at the #FIFDH, Film Festival, and International Forum on Human Rights in Geneva, is...

The bot economy

TECH: Discover the silent drain on global ad budgets with Unclickable, an investigative documentary revealing how digital ad fraud impacts not just companies but the very fabric of society and democracy.

Against the tide

RUSSIA: Askold Kutov's compelling documentary Of Caravan and the Dogs details the final destruction of independent voices in Putin's Russia that oppose his war on Ukraine.

A symphony of human resilience

CHINA: Contrasting cultural richness with harsh realities under China's systematic campaign.

The camera as the weapon

PALESTINE: Receiving both awards and death threats, No Other Land is a poignant exploration of resistance, solidarity, and the quest for justice in a land marked by conflict.

Thorsen against Islam

RIGHTS: Explore the turbulent world of Norway's most prominent anti-Islam activist navigating the thin lines of freedom of expression and hate speech, revealing the complexity of public discourse in today's society in the process.

The art of moving

HUMAN IDFF: The Norwegian documentaries Ibelin and A New Kind of Wilderness, both of which have gained international acclaim, tell moving stories about distinctive individuals - but also provide enriching perspectives on our social life.

Death – more or less real

REALITY: We perceive reality very differently. So let me suggest three areas where reality is real, strong and direct for all of us. But also about what a newly translated book by Pier Paolo Pasolini says about film's contact with reality.

A role model

ACTIVISM: Masih Alinejad, Nobel nominee, voices Iran's silenced through social and global media.

«You may end up with the only peace – being the peace of the graveyard.»

INTERVIEW: We are talking with the previous Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, the man who could have been prime minister in Britain, about current issues – like military build-up, Ukraine, Israel, climate justice and labour, security, democracy, citizen assemblies, and not least of all, hope for the future.

When violence becomes the only way

POWER: According to Hannah Arendt, the use of violence, weapons, and bombs renders us politically voiceless. Can her particular analyses of power teach us anything about the violence being perpetrated from and in Gaza today?

It is time for festivals to endorse a BRAVE space over a SAFE one

IDFA: What is this obsession with creating a «safe space» for upcoming film festivals that is now circulating on social media? Who is scaring the world's institutions to speak up?
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