Human Rights Film Festival Berlin

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Human Rights Film Festival Berlin ( abk.HRFFB ) is a film festival for documentary films . It has existed since 2018 and is organized by the Action Against Hunger . In the context of film screenings with subsequent Q&A s, panel discussions and industry talks, the HRFFB offers a platform for dealing with fundamental issues of development policy, humanitarian aid, democracy, armed conflicts, migration, sustainability and environmental protection

The Human Rights Film Festival Berlin was first held in Berlin in 2018. The festival established itself in Berlin in September 2019.

Festival 2018

From September 20 to 26, 25 documentaries on the subject of human rights were shown. The focus was on the topic of migration and displacement. The opening film was The Fate of the Children of Aleppo (Watani: My Homeland) by Marcel Mettelsiefen . Furthermore ran HumanFlow of Ai Weiwei , Starless Dreams by Mehrdad Oskouei and The Wait of the Dane Emil Langballe.

Festival 2019

In 2019, 45 films from 38 countries were shown. In addition to a jury with Marie Steinman-Tykwer (producer) and Marion Döring (managing director of the European Film Academy), prominent guests took part, such as the human rights activist and filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who has been released from prison . The 2019 edition of the festival took place under the patronage of Gesine Schwan , the honorary president was the Chinese artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei .

In 2019, the opening film at Kino International was the film Für Sama von Waad al-Kateab, which later received 50 awards . Furthermore, Born in Evin by Maryam Zaree , Freedom Fields by Naziha Arebi, But now is perfect by Carin Goeljers, Hassjünger by Julia Knopp and Max Damm, Ice on Fore by Leila Conners, The Remains - Nach der Odyssey by Nathalie Borgers and Watu Wote - All of us by Katja Benrath .

In 2019, the festival's prizes included the Willy Brandt Documentary Film Prize for Freedom and Human Rights worth € 3,000 for the best feature film in the competition (sponsored by the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation) and the short film prize for young talent by filmmakers under the age of 24 on the subject of “Human Rights?” and the Sustainable Impact Prize (sponsored by the Federal Foreign Office).

Askold Kurov's film Novaya won the Willy Brandt Documentary Film Prize 2019. The jury for the Documentary Film Prize included director Karin Albers .

The distributor Filmperlen won the Sustainable Impact Award for For Sama . The jury found that the film, which shows the Syrian war from the perspective of a young, well-educated woman, contributes to a more reflective and empathetic approach to refugees in Germany. The jury included the human rights activist Selmin Çalışkan .

Short film award 2019

The jury for the short film award included Oscar winner Dirk Wilutzky ( Citizenfour ), the politician Bernhard von Grünberg from the board of directors of UN refugee aid , the journalist Anetta Kahane , the actors Gunnar Solka and Adnan Maral and the author and producer Stephan Lamby . The winner was the short film The Struggle for the Rights by August Schüßler, Maximilian Neufeldt and Kilian Harbauer.

Brandenburg tour

With a few selected films, the film festival went on a Brandenburg tour at the end of November 2019 and showed the films in five cities.

organization

The festival management is Anna Ramskogler-Witt, the festival founder is Jan Sebastian Friedrich-Rust, both from the Action against Hunger.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ program . humanrightsfilmfestivalberlin.de. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ NOVAYA wins at the second Human Rights Film Festival Berlin . humanrightsfilmfestivalberlin.de. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  3. ^ Human Rights Film Festival Berlin: International program with utopias and critical snapshots . presseportal.de. August 14, 2019. Accessed May 21, 2020.
  4. ↑ The Human Rights Film Festival Berlin visits Brandenburg . aktiongegendenhunger.de. Retrieved May 21, 2020.