Inconvenient Films
Located in Vilnius, Lithuania
Human Rights Film Festival Inconvenient Films is an annual documentary film festival established in 2007. The mission of this non-profit initiative is to raise awareness on human rights issues around the world and to connect them to those that are present in Lithuania. By presenting documentaries on various human rights topics, inviting filmmakers and activists from all over the world, organizers hope to encourage public debates on human rights issues and ways to address them.
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INTERVIEW: Gediminas Andriukaitis on twenty years of Inconvenient Films, the Baltic region's only human-rights documentary festival, and building a programme around impact.
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Lithuania's Inconvenient Films turns twenty this October under the theme Moved By Cinema, with a retrospective shaped by its own audience's memories and personal…
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JOURNALISM: As political and institutional pressure tightens around Hungary’s largest independent news outlet, a newsroom is pushed from exhaustion into collective rupture.
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GAZA: Following three American physicians in and beyond Gaza, 'American Doctor' confronts genocide, media legibility, and the ever-collapsing distance between war and domestic responsibility.
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GAZE: The romance of discovery unravels when those once treated as objects of the gaze begin to look back.
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RIGHTS: A trans woman’s life between Georgia and Vienna anchors this striking CPH:DOX documentary about repression, survival, and the limits of liberation.
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IRAN: Set in rural Iran yet reaching far beyond it, this is a quietly incendiary portrait of female autonomy under pressure.
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CONFLICT: A child’s-eye chronicle of Grozny, migration, and abuse, refracted into lyrical images that soften brutality without forgetting.
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PALESTINE: From Jenin to future Gaza rebuilds, one cinema’s reopening becomes parable of aid spectacle, cultural erasure, and sidelined local knowledge.