Willy Brandt Documentary Film Award for Freedom and Human Rights

This year, seven filmmakers have the chance to win the prestigious Willy Brandt Documentary Film Prize for Freedom and Human Rights. Sponsored by the Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung, the award is endowed with 3,000 euros.

The international jury will honor a competition film for its outstanding artistic and substantive achievements. The Willy Brandt Documentary Film Prize for Freedom and Human Rights was first awarded at the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin in 2019. Peter Brandt, son of the former Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Willy Brandt, presented the prize at that time to Russian director Askold Kurov.

 

We need the emotional depth that documentary films evoke in us to truly understand and internalize things.
Peter Brandt
Nominated Films
© We Won't Shut Up

WE WON'T SHUT UP – A FILM FOR FREEDOM

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.

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©Clin d'Oeil Films

DRAWING A LINE

An illustrator in India creates political comics for social media – often from a feminist perspective. However, the Hindu nationalist government is cracking down on critical voices.

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© Where The Trees Bear Meat

WHERE THE TREES BEAR MEAT

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.

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© KAMAY

KAMAY

A young student at Kabul University took her own life after been refused to graduate. Her family seeks justice and tells in poetic words about Zahras passion for her homeland’s ecology.

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© FOREST

FOREST

A family lives a nature-oriented life on the Polish border with Belarus when their home becomes a focal point of migration policy: people seek entry into the EU. A story about humanity.

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© Mediha

MEDIHA

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.

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© Darwin Torres

IGUALADA

2022 a left-wing activist unexpectedly becomes Colombian Vice President. She challenges not only the status quo but also the narrative of what a Black woman can achieve in her country.

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4. SEPTEMBER 2024