Armed with a pen
SYRIA: A female cartoonist’s courageous, spirited view of suffering in war-torn Idlib.
Syria
The unyielding gaze of war
UKRAINE: While the Russian invasion commences, a group of Ukrainian journalists who are stuck in the besieged city of Mariupol strive to carry out their duty of documenting the war’s brutalities.
For peace to prevail
JOURNALISM: How a German trial of two Syrian refugees put the crimes of Bashar al-Assad’s regime under the international spotlight
For those who want to understand this crisis
Coming of age under fire
SYRIA: Under bombs, an aspiring video journalist finds herself facing self-reckoning as the unexpected narrator of her own destiny.
Where 97 percent of the population lives on the threshold of starvation
AFGHANISTAN: Zarifa Ghafari is on the BBC’s list of the world’s 100 most influential women. This Afghan mayor knows very well that she is a symbol – but perhaps most of all an attraction.
Prosecution of filmmakers spreads «like a pandemic»
IDFA: ICFR addresses a growing political prosecution and incarceration of filmmakers.
In the zone
JOURNALISM: How do the stories we hear and see come from the conflict zone to our pages and screens? Through the fall of IS, Journalist at War seeks to find out.
Every war is a war against children
CONFLICT: Life stories reflecting some of the worst war scenes we know from the last century.
The Syrian intelligentsia observe the destruction of their homeland
SYRIA: How does one survive in times of war? By forgetting, or by remembering…?
A 200-year-old tale of the now
FAMILY: A timeless tale of growing up in a land of both magic and hatred.