Politics: Human Rights

This powerful documentary puts the spotlight on a harrowing abuse: modern slavery and human trafficking.

The war crimes tribunal in The Hague is fighting with itself and war criminals from the former Yugoslavia.

WORKING GIRLS is a gripping, character-driven drama about three resilient prostitutes navigating complex lives and dark secrets in a Belgian brothel.

How agonizingly long can it take to rescue ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR people from an inflatable boat? Find out in this one-shot documentary.

With destabilising gentleness, Mo Harawe recounts the last hours of the terrorist Farah before his execution.

A creeping, almost invisible toxic waste catastrophe is taking place on Somalia's coast.

A gripping film by Ukraine's Maryna Er Gorbach about the tragic events of the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014.

The murder of the transsexual artist Madorilyn Crawford reveals the dark schemes of Colombian politics.

A photojournalist is threatened by right-wing extremist groups in Belgrade and flees to Germany with her daughter.

This poignant and thought-provoking documentary offers a unique and deeply moving insight into the lives of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

A transgender person's journey of self-discovery in early 1930s Berlin just as the Nazis rise to power is magnificently told in this animated short.

Bollywood in a refugee camp: in this docu-musical, refugees sing about the loss of their identity without pathos, but with a lot of irony.

Romy Haag, Rosa von Praunheim, Ades Zabel and Udo Walz talk about their fascination with the dream destination West Berlin.

Jacqueline Jencquel has decided to end her life before her 75th birthday. Her son accompanies her last year with the camera.

In Stammheim, right next to the old RAF prison, an educational center for future correctional officers is located next to the prison wall.

Intensely charged in political terms, HOTLINE is not merely revealing but downright shocking in what it conveys about Israel’s policies on outsiders.

In the documentary, which was successfully screened in the Panorama section of the Berlinale, gays and lesbians from the former GDR have their say.

During the final prayer of the German Catholic Bishops' Conference in 1991, one of the most spectacular protest actions takes place.

Cinematic memorial to the highly controversial icon of the German women's movement who helped shape feminist discourse for over 50 years.

Slavery has never ended. It has just assumed other names and ways to conceal itself.

Incredibly close and emotional, the film tells the stories of emancipation, love and struggle within a Turkish family.

In this Iranian debut feature, the dilemma of a young soldier unfolds into a visually stunning coming-of-age story spanning several time levels.

Deeply humanist drama centred on the strength and resilience of women in the face of a dangerously patriarchal society.

In blunt, direct, sometimes quite graphic sequences, von Praunheim explores the entire gay subculture which touches all facets of American life.

Part 3 of the groundbreaking Rosa von Praunheim documentary trilogy on the AIDS epidemic

Part 1 of the groundbreaking Rosa von Praunheim documentary trilogy on the AIDS epidemic

35 years of successful struggle for equal rights for homosexual parents.

Part 2 of the groundbreaking Rosa von Praunheim documentary trilogy on the AIDS epidemic.

How can you become a parent in France as a lesbian, gay or trans person if the laws forbid you to do so?

The merciless fighting between militias in the region around Mount Lebanon ended in reprisals against civilians.

This Series follows the moving journey of comedian and trans man OCÉAN through his gender reassignment process.

This fairy tale-tinged documentary explores the urban forest of Paris where trans sex workers and their clients meet.

This harrowing documentary exposes the inhumane working conditions of foreign domestic workers in Lebanon that resemble modern-day slavery.

Victims of the repressive system in the former East German state give powerful testimony about the cruetly of the dehumanizing regime.

Contemporary witnesses from several European countries provide impressive insights into how the Iron Curtain shaped life across the continent.

Survivors can also be victims in countries where injustice was the norm. Their compelling testimonies are featured in this insightful documentary.

Taghi, an Afghan refugees living in Iran, faces the choice of staying in a country where he is not welcome or returning to a country he barely knows.

This doc is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Africa.

A young woman in Mauritania, is forced to gain weight to meet traditional beauty standards before her upcoming wedding.

In the small town of Monroe, New York, a dispute over land erupts between an Hasidic community and its secular neighbors and turns into a turf war.

One of the biggest taboos in society is the rehabilitation of sex offenders. This film takes the offender perspective.

Ghadir, Mohamad and their five children never wanted to leave their homeland Syria. Now they are in Germany. The new beginning is not easy.

After more than 50 years of bloody civil war, the peace process in Colombia began in 2016, with an uncertain outcome.

Three portraits about the fate of Eastern European migrant workers who have come to Germany in search of prospects.

The shocking story of the sea rescue ship Lifeline, which was denied entry to a safe port for months.

Guatemala, 2018. The whole country is immersed in the trial of the soldiers who sparked the civil war.

A war crime was committed in their home village and consistently hushed up. The two brothers search for clues leaves us stunned and angry.

The statements of former inmates of the Hohenschönhausen Stasi prison and former Stasi employees are contrasted here.

This film places acts of resistance against National Socialism and current struggles in a historical continuity.

A Delhi woman's rocky road to her own cab license.

Based on a true story: The film examines the German justice system and its structural bias.

Before the invasion of 2022 in the occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk, two people challenge the new regime.

The musician Wilhelm Heckmann survived 8 years of concentration camp, branded with the 'pink triangle' for gay prisoners.

Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, often strand in Lybia. But the war-torn country is one of the worst places in the world to be a refugee.

Demand for water is exploding. By 2050 at least one person in four will live in a country suffering from water shortages – and market speculation.

In 2015, at the height of the Syrian war, Raf’aa, a mother of two, made the journey alone to Germany to secure asylum for her family.

The director of a psychiatric clinic near Tehran gives patients the opportunity to marry each other, in a model project.

A team of specialists is trying to restore identity and dignity to the dead of the worst shipwreck in post-war history in the Mediterranean.

Like all Israeli youths, Atalya is obligated to become a soldier. But unlike most, she questions the practices of her country’s military.

A young man tells his story and gives testimony of the collective fate of a nation oppressed by poverty, police repression, and corruption.

Winter 2016, the refugee camp in Calais, dubbed "The Jungle", is a growing city of nearly 12,000 residents.

To pursue her dream of becoming a singer, an Afghan girl lives as a boy.

At the age of 19, Raja was deported to Nazi Germany and was forced to do labor on a Bavarian farm. This documentary is her story.

In restrictive Afghanistan, there are girls who are raised as boys and this is culturally established.

We accompany a Roma family in Macedonia in their laborious everyday life, marked by deprivation, humiliation and racism.

How well can you know your partner? Patricia and Ikendu have a happy relationship until Ikendu's surprise arrest shatters it.

Sophie and Wolfram meet in the hospital and set off together on their final journey. Both are terminally ill with cancer.

Survival is not enough. Fariba Tabrizi has made it. Under peril of death she has fled from Iran.

An indescribable catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes. How can it be stopped?

During World War 2, 45,000 psychiatric patients died in French hospitals. Only one facility opposed the carnage: the asylum in Saint-Alban.

Six very different lesbian women talk about their lives and loves in the socialist system of the GDR.

An eye-opening experience about deep engrained behaviour we barley are aware of in our every day life.

In a climate of mistrust and racism, the disappearance of a young woman promotes wild speculation and racist suspicions.

Iris P. was an undercover investigator who maintained close friendships and had intimate relationships with the people she spied on.

"Clowns without Borders" bring a bit of joy to the refugee camp in Moria, Lesbos.

As a child in Kenya, the filmmaker Beryl Magoko was subjected to a life-threatening ritual which many girls undergo even today.

A disillusioned reporter and an idealistic young pastor, fight to free a girl accused of witchcraft from the clutches of a superstitious village in the ...

30 years after the end of the civil war in Lebanon, over 17,000 people who disappeared are still unaccounted for. An unnamed artist searches them.

In some of West Africa's traditional societies, mental illness and epilepsy are still seen as demonic possession.

Horrifying videos of the Syrian civil war, taken with mobile phones in the besieged city of Homs, show the horrors of war unfiltered.

Norwegian-Pakistani teen Nisha is torn between two worlds until the worlds colide.

Warm-hearted animated film tells the story of a girl in the permanent refugee camp Burj el Barajneh, Lebanon and her family history.

Bikes vs Cars highlights a global crisis that we have long been aware of and should be talking about: The climate and mobility crisis....

The wrenching story of a woman sentenced in 1934 to ten years in prison for antifascist activities.

An exploration of facial recognition, a modern fingerprint that provides access to a person's personality like a secret code.

A bearded man with a backpack gets on an airplane and a beardless man without a backpack simply does what a man has to do.

A three-day parliamentary debate decides on women's right to self-determination in France - brilliantly retold.

A semi-documentary that follows a group of young migrants in Austria as they negotiate the maze of administrative procedures.

Director Konrad Petzold addresses the role of Native North Americans and African American slaves in this international production.

GDR-Western, who describes the actions of white settlers against self-sufficient Mimbreno Appacheans trying to settle down in Arizona in the middle of ...

Surfing in this film is a metaphor and expression of freedom. Young people in Gaza have the same desires as anyone else.

A portrait of POC transgender musician and artist Linn da Quebrada, who uses her body and performances to fight sexism, homophobia and racism.

Christoph Schlingensief's provocative works are still highly topical even after 20 years.

The Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the glacial ice of Colombia's highest mountain range - the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

A French olive farmer offers help to refugees crossing the mountains. But now he too faces prosecution.

Six people talk about the absurd, the sad and above all the beautiful aspects of transitioning.

A small notebook filled with the courageous testimonies of 300 people reporting on the atrocities of Congolese mercenaries.

In Helsinki, two destinies intersect in the midst of racism and loss: Cohesion and humanity can overcome everything.

Salim Shaheen defied the Soviets and the Taliban and is the most prolific Afghan filmmaker you've never heard of.

In 2014 a small group of Eritrean refugees are "stranded" in Strackholt amidst the East Frisian emptiness.