Impact Days
-
FIFDH announces 2025 details for Impact Days webinar
FIFDH #Impact Days# 2025 launches on 16 January with a public webinar examining the role of hope in #human rights# storytelling. This year’s program focuses on the power and challenges of creating narratives that inspire action while addressing systemic poverty, oppression, and persecution. The event highlights the tension between fostering optimism and maintaining truthfulness in…
-
FIFDH announces full 2024 programme
The 22nd edition of the Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) opens its doors from 8 to 17 March, aiming to explore the potential of cinema in shaping a better future amidst a backdrop of escalating global crises. The festival seeks to offer insights into our complex era without succumbing to…
-
Documentary filmmaking and human rights: a delicate balance of exposure and protection
As the #FIFDH Human Rights Film Festival in Geneva anticipates its sixth annual #Impact Days# from 10 to 12 March, discussions began in earnest with a January webinar. This session posed a vital question central to the festival’s ethos: «How do we protect activists while promoting their work?” Documentaries, potent tools for amplifying human rights…
-
FIFDH announces 2024 Impact Days selections and webinar theme
The International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) proudly announces the sixth edition of its esteemed professional program, #Impact Days#. This unique initiative continues to champion human rights through the power of documentary filmmaking, emphasising the transformative role of collaboration in promoting global awareness and action. Each year, Impact Days undertakes a threefold…
-
FIFDH Impact Days announces 2023 call for submissions for socially impactful documentary projects
Geneva’s human rights film festival #FIFDH has launched its #Impact Days# 2023 call for projects. The FIFDH Impact Days industry programme focuses on the transformative change documentaries can bring to the world; it is dedicated to matching potential partners around common themes for collaborative campaigning on urgent issues. Each year FIFDH Impact Days selects 16…
-
Ukrainian film project granted 2022 FIFDH Impact Days award
As FIFDH’s #Impact Days# drew to a close last in #Geneva, the 2022 #FIFDH Impact Days Award was presented to the Ukrainian film project Peace For Nina, directed by Zhanna Maksymenko-Dovhych and produced by Zhanna Maksymenko-Dovhych, Lyuba Knorozok and Dea Gjinovci. The film tells the story of a Ukrainian woman tirelessly campaigning on behalf of…
-
FIFDH announces full 2022 Impact Days Industry Programme
At #FIFDH, leading Human Rights Film Festival, the Industry-focused #Impact Days# is where international Impact Production experts and funders meet fellow filmmakers advancing human rights with their films. On 7 and 8 March, there will be two full FIFDH Impact Days of panel discussions, professional meetings, masterclasses, case studies, keynotes, and curated networking opportunities between…