human rights Archives

The man who infiltrated a military government

Sevara Pan / September 29, 2022

JOURNALISM: The fascinating story of Elías Barahona, who infiltrated the military government in Guatemala’s darkest days of civil war.

Anaïs Taracena, civil war, Doc NYC, Elías Barahona, espionage, FIFDH, genocide, Guatemala City, Hot Docs, human rights, IDFA, Ixil, journalism, Latin America, Lucas García, MajorDocs, Maya Kʼicheʼ, Pedro G. García, Silence of the Mole, United States, Vietnam

Sarajevo Safari, a film by Miran Zupanič

Human safari

Melita Zajc / September 9, 2022

CONFLICT: The story of wealthy foreigners who turned besieged Sarajevo into a human safari, paying high fees for the chance to shoot at the residents.

Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival, Aristotle, Auschwitz, Boštjan Ikovic, conflict, Democracy, Dokudoc, Eduard Limonov, Franci Zajc, Giorgio Agamben, Guantanamo, human rights, migrants, Miran Zupanič, Nazi, Pawel Pawlikowski, philosophy and, Republika Srpska, Sarajevo, Sarajevo Safari, United, United Nations, war, Yugoslavia

My Imaginary Country, a film by Patricio Guzmán

Risk your body – obtain a new constitution

Dieter Wieczorek / June 2, 2022

POLITICS: At Cannes, Patrizio Guzmán´s documentary offers one of the rare elements of hope in global politics.

Cannes, CPH:DOX, Docs Ireland, Gabriel Boric, HUMAN idff Oslo, human rights, ideology, IDFA, indigenous, junta, LGBTQI+, Mapuche woman, Movies on War, My Imaginary Country, Patricio Aylwin, Patricio Guzmán, politics, press freedom, Renate Sachse, Sebastián Piñera, Yellow Vest

Banned Falun Gong and the defiant story of TV hijacking

Sevara Pan / May 21, 2022

CHINA: Revisiting the Falun Gong’s TV takeover on the 20th anniversary.

Changchun, China, communist, Dokufest, Epoch Times, Eternal Spring, Falun Gong, Hot Docs, human rights, Jason Loftus, Kevin Koo, Krakow Film Festival, Li Hongzhi, meditation, propaganda, religious freedom, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Yvan Pinard, ZagrebDox

This Stolen Land of Mine, a film by Marc Wiese

Recolonising Ecuador

Astra Zoldnere / March 29, 2022

NEO-COLONISALISM: Ecuadorian indigenous resistance against their homeland’s resource exploitation at the hands of China.

Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival, China, colonialism, Covid-19, CPH:DOX, DocAviv, Dokufest, Fernando Villavicencio, German Films, human rights, indigenous, Julian Assange, Kwame Nkrumah, London, Marc Wiese, Movies That Matter, NEO-COLONISALISM, NEO-COLONISALISM:, Oliver Stoltz, poverty, Rafael Correa, This Stolen Country of Mine, Wikileaks

The Caviar Connection, a film by Benoît Bringer

Wining and dining one’s way to endless rule

Carmen Gray / March 21, 2022

JOURNALISM: Despite imprisonment, journalist Khadija Ismayilova exposes the intricate corruption tactics of the families ruling Central Asia.

Azerbaijan, Benoit Bringer, Caucasus, Christoph Strasser, CPH:DOX, Doc NYC, Eduard Lintner, Emin Huseynov, Facebook, Hot Docs, human rights, Ilham Aliyev, journalism, Laurent Richard, Luca Volonte, panama papers, Pulitzer Prize, Switzerland, The Caviar Connection

INDIGENOUS RIGHTS: Promised dominion over their own rainforest territory, Brazil’s Uru-eu-wau-wau people have since faced illegal incursions from mining companies and land-grabbing invasions spurred on by right-wing politicians.

Alex Pritz, Anonymous, Bolsonaro, CPH:DOX, Darren Aronofsky, Dokufest, Hollywood, human rights, indigenous, INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, INDIGENOUS RIGHTS:, Lizzie Gillett, Matthew Heineman, MDOC - Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival, Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, rainforest., Sigrid Dyekjær, Sterlin Harjo, Sundance, Taika Waititi, The Territory, Will Miller

China: The Uyghur Drama, a film by François Reinhardt

The world’s most unrecognised human rights tragedy

Nick Holdsworth / January 23, 2022

CHINA: Genocide by any other name – President Xi Jinping’s campaign to eradicate the Muslim Uyghurs of Western China.

arte, Birobidzhan, Canada, Central Asia, China, China: The Uyghur Drama, Communist Party, East Turkistan, EU, Europe, Fabrice Estève, François Reinhardt, human rights, Lake Baikal, Montenegro:, Muslim Uyghurs, Myrto Grecos, Nazi, Red Army, Russia, silk road, UK, USA, Winter Olympics, Xi Jinping, Xinjiang

WATCH DOCS Belarus returns with online 2022 festival

Modern Times Review / January 14, 2022

The #Human Rights# Film Festival WATCH DOCS Belarus returns, and be held under the name HUMAN RIGHTS EXTREMIST. All films

human rights, WATCH DOCS Belarus

A little bit of heaven

Nick Holdsworth / October 29, 2021

CHINA: The raw reality of daily life in China juxtaposes with a microcosm of kindness in a semi-legal countryside orphanage for handicapped children.

Adéla Špaljová, Beijing, China, Christian, communist, Czechoslovakia, Heaven, human rights, Jan Macola, Ostrava, surveillance, The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Tomáš Etzler, Uyghur

Voices of reason in a world of lies

Nick Holdsworth / October 9, 2021

It is not often in these trying times that a news headline brings a genuine smile to the heart. Friday’s

Chechnya, Dmitri Muratov, Dmitry Peskov, human rights, journalism, Maria Ressa, moscow, Nobel Peace Prize, Novaya Gazeta, Rodrigo Duterte, Russian, vladimir putin

FIFDH opens call for 2022 Impact Lab

Modern Times Review / October 1, 2021

The Swiss city of #Geneva, the headquarter of the #WHO, #UNHCR, Human Rights Council, hundreds of NGOs, and philanthropists active

FIFDH, Geneva, human rights, Impact Lab, UNHCR, WHO