human rights Archives

Human Rights Festival Berlin announces Human Rights Forum activities & guests

Modern Times Review / September 2, 2021

The Human Rights Film Festival Berlin is inviting storytellers to attend its Human Rights Forum from 20 to 23 September

activism, Aya Chebbi, Ece Temelkuran, Graeme Smith, human rights, Human Rights Film Festival Berlin, journalism, Michelle Müntefering, peace, populism, Roya Sadat, Wim Wenders

«It is important for us to give a voice to different film forms and storytelling»

Steve Rickinson / June 28, 2021

DOCAVIV: Artistic Director Karin Rywkind Segal on the festival’s 23rd edition.

conflict, Covid-19, Democracy, DocAviv, environment, human rights, Karin Rywkind Segal

The Colonel’s Stray Dogs, a film by Khalid Shamis

The many dreams of Libya

Carmen Gray / April 30, 2021

DISSENT: Undying patriotism in the face of a country that no longer needs you.

DISSENT, DISSENT:, dissident, Hot Docs, human rights, Human Rights Film Festival Berlin, Islamist, journalism, Khalid Shamis, Libya, London, Muammar Gaddafi, Steven Markovitz, Tamsin Ranger, The Colonel’s Stray Dogs, Tripoli

Movies that Matter 2021: The complete winners

Modern Times Review / April 23, 2021

The Netherlands’ Movies that Matter Festival has just announced its winners. The international film festival on #human rights# held 30

human rights, Movies That Matter

Extraordinary women

Melita Zajc / April 2, 2021

FEMALE VOICES: New forms of expression and film language set two films apart from the 30th African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival

Africa, Asia, Catholic, Chile, FEMALE VOICES:, FESCAAAL, film language, François d'Artemarre/Giancarlo Nasi, Hinde Boujemaa/Marìa Paz Gonzàlez, human rights, Imed Marzouk, Italy, Lav Diaz, Lina From Lima, Magaly Solier, Maite Alberdi, Migration, Milan, Noura’s Dream, Peru, Quechua, Tatjana Kozar, Tunis

The «disappeared»

Margareta Hruza / March 9, 2021

CONFLICT: The abductions and disappearance of over 100,000 Syrians reveal yet another aspect of a cruel war strategy.

Ayouni, Buenos Aires, Christians, conflict, Elhum Shakerifar, Hugh Hartford, human rights, isis, Islamic State, Muslims, physical anthropology, Raqqa, Syria, Yasmin Fedda

Everything is other people’s fault

Marianne Solberg / January 13, 2021

MEDIA: Where advertising gives a feeling of well-being, desire and pleasure, new media consumption gives one of paranoia, anger and mistrust. Hate sells. Even on Capitol Hill.

Al Qaeda, amazon, Capitol Hill, CNN, Cold War, conflict, Edward Herman, Fox News, Google, Hitler, human rights, journalism, mass media, media, mongolia, MSNBC, Noam Chomsky, paranoia, propaganda, Rupert Murdoch, Russia, Social media, Uzbekistan, vietnam war

Humans of no nation

Neil Young / November 9, 2020

REFUGEES: Since 2016, 700,000 people of the Rohingya Muslim minority fled Myanmar making the Kutupalong refugee camp one of the biggest in the world.

a Rohingya Story, Bangladesh, DOK.fest München, genocide, human rights, Human Rights Film Festival Berlin, IDFA, Mélanie Carrier, muslim, Myanmar, Olivier Higgins, PTSD, refugee, refugees, RIDM, Rohingya, Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Visions du réel, Wandering

Campaign Against the climate-documentary-MTR

High priests of climate denialism

Anders Dunker / October 23, 2020

ENVIRONMENT: A masterful confrontation with the deceptions and self-deceptions of central climate deniers – and the sinister consequences of their successful campaigns.

Africa, bird flu, Catholic, China, climate, CO2, communism, copenhagen, coronavirus, Covid-19, CPH:DOX, crucified Christ, Denmark, ecology, Egypt, environment, epidemic, EU, Exxon Mobil, factory farming, Ghana, hong kong, human rights, India, Jesus, Kansas, Kenya, Mads Ellesøe, mongolia, NASA, nigeria, refugees and, SARS-CoV2, Sicily, Sidsel Marie Jacobsen, slavery, Steen Jensen, Sundance, The Campaign Against the Climate, The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, trump, UN, vegan, vegetarian, WHO, Wuhan

«We look for films that enable people to navigate the world we live in»

Bianca-Olivia Nita / October 22, 2020

INTERVIEW: Modern Times Review speaks with The Why Foundation CEO/Executive Producer Mette Hoffmann Meyer.

Africa, cinema, Covid-19, Denmark, Egypt, EU, Hitler, Hollywood, human rights, interview, Kenya, London, Mette Hoffmann Meyer, mongolia, Napoleon, Nazi, nigeria, nuclear war, slavery, Stanley Kubrick, The Why Foundation, UN

Democratic Struggle, Institutional Reform, and State Resilience in the African Sahel

Democracy in French-speaking Africa

Ketil Fred Hansen / October 2, 2020

AFRICA: France has strangely managed to preserve hegemony over its former colonies, including the dissemination of knowledge. This book is a much-needed exception, providing the background for understanding the recent coup in Mali.

Africa, African studies, Alpha Konare, Amadou Sanogo, Berlin Wall, Burkina, chad, corruption, France, Francis Fukuyama, French colonies, human rights, Idriss Déby, Libya, Macky Sall, Mauritania, Niger, Sahel, Senegal, Tuareg

Long running US festival United Nations Association Film Festival announces 2020 theme, «The Power of Empathy»

Modern Times Review / August 28, 2020

The 23rd edition of the Bay Area’s United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) has announced its 2020 theme: «The Power

environmentalism, health, human rights, Jasmina Bojic, peace, racism, United Nations Association Film Festival, war