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Human Rights Festival Berlin announces Human Rights Forum activities & guests
The Human Rights Film Festival Berlin is inviting storytellers to attend its Human Rights Forum from 20 to 23 September 2021. This four-day international and transdisciplinary conference on storytelling, #human rights# and #activism will be opened by German Minister of State #Michelle Müntefering# and host international guests through keynotes, discussions and workshops. The Human Rights…
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Long running US festival United Nations Association Film Festival announces 2020 theme, «The Power of Empathy»
The 23rd edition of the Bay Area’s United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) has announced its 2020 theme: «The Power of Empathy». Through documentary films on #human rights# issues – #environmentalism, #racism, #health, women’s issues, universal education, #war and #peace. The festival will be held online for eleven days, October 15-25, 2020. The award-winning United…
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Cannes Docs – Marché du Film welcomes DMZ DOCS as its first Asian festival partner
This week, Cannes Docs – Marché du Film occurs online, from 22 to 26 June. Partnering with some of the most renowned documentary festivals in Europe, this year Cannes Docs – Marché du Film has expanded out welcoming two new festivals and, in turn, markets to their slate. Of those festivals, South Korea’s #DMZ DOCS#…
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A female imam struggling for community
ISLAM: In 2015 the Syrian–Finnish Dane Sherin Khankan decided to create a woman-lead mosque in Copenhagen. Director Marie Skovgaard has followed her struggle between individual vision and the challenge of creating a collective.