in collaboration with the German Consulate in Mumbai
The Human Rights Film Festival Berlin (HRFFB) was initiated by the humanitarian and development organization Aktion gegen den Hunger and has been held annually since 2018. The festival focuses on stories from all parts of the world that report in a powerful way on the current state of human rights.
Day 1:
Opening Film : STOP FILMING US BUT LISTEN (Bernadette Vivuya, Kagoma Ya Twahirwa | 72 min | CD, NL | 2022 - available language: French with English subtitles)
A story about a big city in Congo - but who should tell it? Two Congolese filmmakers take footage shot from a Western perspective - and re-cut it. Can the colonial gaze be dissolved in this way?
AYA (Simon Coulibaly Gillard | 90 min | BE, FR | 2021 - available languages: Afrikaans & French with English subtitles).
Aya grows up on an island off the Ivory Coast, she likes sleeping in the sand, picking coconuts. But the water level rises and the island slowly sinks into the sea. The inhabitants see no future on the island, but Aya decides to stay.
A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS (Simon Lereng Wilmont | 87 min | DK, FI, SE, UA | 2022 - available languages: Ukrainian with English subtitles
Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. A large dilapidated orphanage gives Kolya, Eva and Sasha refuge and a piece of home. Security from war and poverty, violence and alcohol. But it is a temporary security?
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