Program 2019

The family of Clarice Gargard, born in 1988, comes from Liberia. In DADDY AND THE WARLORD, the young journalist asks about her father’s involvement in the war crimes of the convicted rebel and ex…

Hiroshima, September 8, 1945. Dr Marcel Junod, ICRC delegate, arrives in the martyred city with 15 tonnes of relief supplies. Who is this tireless doctor in the service of faltering humanity? Goma,…

More than just a postcard of iconic stone statues, Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – is a microcosm of our planet in flux. Natives of Rapa Nui are still grappling with the booming tourism…

The film is an unflinching look at the #FeesMustFall student movement that burst into the most militant national revolt in South Africa since the country’s first democratic elections. The story is…

A love letter sent from a young mother to her daughter during the uprising in Aleppo, Syria. FOR SAMA follows the story of Waad al-Kateab for five years, as she falls in love, gets married and gives…

An intimate film about hope, struggle and sacrifice in a land where dreaming is a luxury. Over the span of five years, FREEDOM FIELDS follows three women and their football team in post-revolution…

A minefield and the second largest military wall in the world separates this group of friends from their homeland, which they have only heard of in their parent’s stories. They are called the…

They‘ ve been trapped in an ideology for years. They gave up their whole life and themselves for it. They were extremists: Dominic Schmitz and Felix Benneckenstein, an ex-Salafist and a former neo…

Heart of Stone accompanies Ghorban for 8 years, as the young refugee grows into a teenager first and a mature young man later. Despite having survived the trauma in Afghanistan, he finds that life in…