Films 2022

Sorious Samura and Charlie Haffner are fed up. War, disease, poverty: it’s always the same images and negative news that shape public perceptions of Africa – and that in no way do the continent…

By day, Lilas works as a children’s music teacher. It is only at night that she and her bandmates Shery, Maya, Alma and Tatyana can indulge in their art and live it up on the stages of Beirut…

Can providing humanitarian aid be punishable by law? It seems so. Throughout Europe, some civilians are facing heavy fines and sometimes even decades in prison. Their problem: they have provided…

Masks, jewellery and statues – we admire their beauty in glass display cases, they are stored in archives, kept safe. But safe from whom? Have we forgotten how they got here? Europe's colonial powers…

The Haus für Poesie presents a selection of the most exciting entries of the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2020 and 2021. The films deal with the topics of human rights, equality and resistance. They…

A woman covers her face with a scarf – she does not want to be filmed – but the camera continues to point at her. This scene is from a documentary by a Dutch film team. Their aim is to portray life…

Summer 2021. A man sits alone on an airplane. While thousands of people try to flee the crowded airport in Kabul, Danish journalist Nagieb Khaja travels to Afghanistan. These are the days of the…

It seemed like a miracle: protection against unwanted pregnancy, effective relief against pain and annoying acne – the birth control pill liberated women and their bodies, revolutionising their…

Online child sexual abuse is the fastest-growing crime in the world. "Children in the Pictures" follows Task Force Argos, a division of the Australian police that infiltrates global criminal networks…