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FIFDH 2026 announces opening and closing films and new media partnerships
The International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) returns to Geneva from 6–15 March 2026 with an edition explicitly shaped by the instability of «the real» as a civic category. Set against what the festival describes as rising #fascism alongside geopolitical, environmental, social, and technological upheaval, the 24th FIFDH positions cinema as both…
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Active Vocabulary
PROPAGANDA: A Russian teacher flees to Berlin after questioning the war. Her story exposes ritualised school propaganda, then throws an uncomfortable mirror at Western «neutrality» and the new glamour of military service.
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Rijeka or Death! Fiume o Morte!
HISTORY: A crowd-sourced, carnivalesque reconstruction of Rijeka 1919–20, Rijeka or Death! dismantles D’Annunzio’s cult and exposes the roots and afterlives of fascism.
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Generation Gaza: Among the Israelis in India
ISRAEL: Among Himalaya backpackers, Israelis process 7 October, Gaza memories, and identity crisis—numbed by drugs, haunted by politics, searching elusive peace.
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Growing up on the margins
POVERTY: The gritty Hungarian documentary Kix, about growing up in urban poverty in Budapest, is not always easy to watch but tugs at the heartstrings.
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A certain kind of president’s last days
BIOGRAPHY: Havel's legacy as a dissident, playwright, and president, highlighted in a film that contrasts his ideals with today's political climate.
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Exploring cinematic reflections of crisis: documentary on the march
CINEMA: More prescient than ever, Doclisboa's «Documentary on the March» retrospective provide a blueprint for today's documentaries for social change.
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A new European security architecture
UKRAINE/RUSSIA: The authors believe that European countries should loosen their ties with the US in to achieve constructive results in what can be viewed as a European security problem. Two parties can only achieve security together with the other - not at the expense of it.
