Films and discussion sessions give the Human Rights Film Festival insight into the working methods of reporters in conflict zones – from the well-known war reporter Marie Colvin to private rapporteurs.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“For Sama”
The opening film of the Berlin-based Human Rights festival (18.-25.09.2019) is from the love letter of a mother to her daughter. A young Syrian girl documented, as she marries and her child Sama in Aleppo brings to the world, in the middle of the war zone. “For Sama” has been honored with many prestigious awards, including best documentary at the Cannes film festival in 2019.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“The Prosecutors”
Rape in times of war, is dismissed has always been considered collateral damage. But the three in this Film, portrayed lawyers know that this is wrong. On behalf of the victims of sexual violence, you fight for justice. Leslie Thomas shot his documentary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Colombia.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“ISIS, Tomorrow. The Lost Souls of Mosul”
The terrorist IS militia had occupied the Iraqi Mosul to 2017, for three years. The Islamists, leaving hundreds of thousands of children who have experienced nothing but violence. Many were trained as assassins to suicide, willing to kill every “infidel”. “ISIS, TOMORROW – THE LOST SOULS OF MOSUL” by Francesca Mannocchi and Alessio Romenzi is a document about a lost Generation.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“This Is Congo”
The photo journalist Daniel McCabe describes in his documentary film the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Trade of an informer, a military commander, a cutter and a petroleum dealer are:. The Film shows what it means to live in a country that has experienced since its independence in 1960, still not a single peaceful transition of power.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“What Walaa Wants”
Walaa grew up in a refugee camp in the West Bank – without their mother, because sitting in prison. Walaa would like to join as one of the few women in the Palestinian security forces. The documentary “What Walaa Wants” the canadian Christy Garland accompanied the rebellious young woman who uses her defiant energy, in order to become a policewoman, over the period of six years.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“Novaya”
The Novaya Gazeta was founded in 1990 with money from the Nobel peace prize for Mikhail Gorbachev. Today, the newspaper of Moscow is considered to be one of the last Publikationenen of Russia, criticizing the Kremlin. Journalists such as Jury Shchekochikhin, Anna Politkovskaya and Anastasia Baburova paid for their work with the life. Director Askold Kurov examines the state of exception of the editorial staff.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“The Remains — After the Odyssey”
Refugee ships to cross the Mediterranean sea; many never come. The Austrian Director Nathalie Borgers decided to illuminate the visible and invisible traces of this often deadly journey. You met people, help Refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos. It tells the story of a Syrian family that has lost 13 members, whose bodies were never found.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“Daddy and the Warlord”
The 1988-born journalist Clarice Gargard grew up with the legend, her father had contributed as an Idealist to the reconstruction of his home country of Liberia. But as she tries to find out whether or not the father had to do with the dictator Charles Taylor and his war crimes, she realizes that the truth is more complex than it first appears.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“#Resistance”,
Resistance, the word can mean a lot of things. The German filmmaker Britta Schoening portrays three young women who are in different circles active: a left-hand house owner, who lives out of solidarity with refugees in Athens, a follower of an extreme right-wing movement in Vienna and a Muslim Poetry-Slammer, fights in Berlin against discrimination.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“The Curse of Abundance”
So rich in oil Ecuador is a third of the energy reserves are located in the Yasuni national Park, a vitally important Ecosystem and home to indigenous peoples. To avoid holes, proposed by then-President Rafael Correa of the world community to compensate his country for loss of profit. But it came differently, as the Polish journalist Ewa Ewart evidenced in her documentary.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“For Sama”
The opening film of the Berlin-based Human Rights festival (18.-25.09.2019) is from the love letter of a mother to her daughter. A young Syrian girl documented, as she marries and her child Sama in Aleppo brings to the world, in the middle of the war zone. “For Sama” has been honored with many prestigious awards, including best documentary at the Cannes film festival in 2019.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“The Prosecutors”
Rape in times of war, is dismissed has always been considered collateral damage. But the three in this Film, portrayed lawyers know that this is wrong. On behalf of the victims of sexual violence, you fight for justice. Leslie Thomas shot his documentary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Colombia.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“ISIS, Tomorrow. The Lost Souls of Mosul”
The terrorist IS militia had occupied the Iraqi Mosul to 2017, for three years. The Islamists, leaving hundreds of thousands of children who have experienced nothing but violence. Many were trained as assassins to suicide, willing to kill every “infidel”. “ISIS, TOMORROW – THE LOST SOULS OF MOSUL” by Francesca Mannocchi and Alessio Romenzi is a document about a lost Generation.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“This Is Congo”
The photo journalist Daniel McCabe describes in his documentary film the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Trade of an informer, a military commander, a cutter and a petroleum dealer are:. The Film shows what it means to live in a country that has experienced since its independence in 1960, still not a single peaceful transition of power.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“What Walaa Wants”
Walaa grew up in a refugee camp in the West Bank – without their mother, because sitting in prison. Walaa would like to join as one of the few women in the Palestinian security forces. The documentary “What Walaa Wants” the canadian Christy Garland accompanied the rebellious young woman who uses her defiant energy, in order to become a policewoman, over the period of six years.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“Novaya”
The Novaya Gazeta was founded in 1990 with money from the Nobel peace prize for Mikhail Gorbachev. Today, the newspaper of Moscow is considered to be one of the last Publikationenen of Russia, criticizing the Kremlin. Journalists such as Jury Shchekochikhin, Anna Politkovskaya and Anastasia Baburova paid for their work with the life. Director Askold Kurov examines the state of exception of the editorial staff.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“The Remains — After the Odyssey”
Refugee ships to cross the Mediterranean sea; many never come. The Austrian Director Nathalie Borgers decided to illuminate the visible and invisible traces of this often deadly journey. You met people, help Refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos. It tells the story of a Syrian family that has lost 13 members, whose bodies were never found.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“Daddy and the Warlord”
The 1988-born journalist Clarice Gargard grew up with the legend, her father had contributed as an Idealist to the reconstruction of his home country of Liberia. But as she tries to find out whether or not the father had to do with the dictator Charles Taylor and his war crimes, she realizes that the truth is more complex than it first appears.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“#Resistance”,
Resistance, the word can mean a lot of things. The German filmmaker Britta Schoening portrays three young women who are in different circles active: a left-hand house owner, who lives out of solidarity with refugees in Athens, a follower of an extreme right-wing movement in Vienna and a Muslim Poetry-Slammer, fights in Berlin against discrimination.
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Highlights of the Human Rights Film festival
“The Curse of Abundance”
So rich in oil Ecuador is a third of the energy reserves are located in the Yasuni national Park, a vitally important Ecosystem and home to indigenous peoples. To avoid holes, proposed by then-President Rafael Correa of the world community to compensate his country for loss of profit. But it came differently, as the Polish journalist Ewa Ewart evidenced in her documentary.
The famous journalist Marie Colvin, the flap with your eye-catching eyes, such as an icon, had died in February 2012, in Homs, as they reported on the attacks of the Syrian regime in the besieged enclave of Baba Amr.
The award-winning Sunday Times reporter was already praised during his lifetime, often for their courage. The admiration of her Person increased after her death even. Various biographies and films praising their intrepid reporting and their larger-than-life personality.
Sean Ryan is now the media Director of the organization “Save the Children”
One of them shown in Berlin the documentary film “Under the Wire”. The photojournalist Paul Conroy tells the story, along with other collaborators like Sean Ryan, the former foreign editor of the Sunday Times, from his last Mission with Colvin. He was in the attack also, and survived in a miraculous way.
“She had a zeal to report about atrocities in Wars,” said Sean Ryan, who appeared as a guest speaker at the Festival, in the DW-Interview. “They believed that their reports could serve as a deterrent, and that this cruel people would perhaps do less cruel things.”
Attacks movies while the Baby is asleep in the next room
In the hope to receive the support of the international community, began Waad al-Kateab early to film the protests in Aleppo as a citizen journalist. She tells her story in the documentary “For Sama”, the opening film of the festival. In cooperation with al-Kateab Edward Watts led the Co-Director.
The documentary begins during an attack, the people in a basement to seek refuge. The mother of a small child by the name of Sama takes her camera to film the events, and ask other people to tend the Baby while you are running towards the explosions.
As it turns out, that the attack is more serious than expected, the camera woman is Worried about what might be happening with your child. First of all, the viewers have to wonder why a small child is in the midst of all this Chaos. Waad al-Kateab says in her movie that she dedicates to her daughter, why she has made the conscious decision to stay with her in this dangerous environment.
Waad al-Kateab won for their documentary, the “Golden Eye” in Cannes, and an international “Emmy”
In Addition, the Film tells the story of the young woman since the beginning of the uprising in Aleppo. She and other students hope first of all for the Revolution and that their peaceful protests can rid the country of Assad’s dictatorial Regime. She falls in love with her fellow activist, Hamza al-Kateab. Shortly thereafter, they married and Waad is pregnant. The two Central figures of the protest movement are at this time
At that time, the activists still hope for a “new” Syria, but the conflict is coming to a head more and more. Hamza established as a doctor in a makeshift hospital in the rebel stronghold, while Waads video clips are in the world seen a million times. To keep your daughter, Sama, and strengthens their Beliefs only.
Of prominent foreign correspondents, citizen journalists
Of the full of hope, demonstrations of the Syrians during the Arab spring up to the brutal bombings by the regime, in which children and innocent civilians were killed, recalls the sequence of events in the “For Sama” strongly of those in “Under the Wire”. In spite of his long experience in conflict-affected areas of the photographer Paul Convoy in “Under the Wire points” to the fact that what he did in Syria, seen, could even be referred to times more than war: “It’s a bloodbath.” The violent images in the “For Sama” to confirm his impression.
Apart from the common theme of the two films differ not only in their style, but also reflect the development of the war reporting clearly. While “Under the Wire” deals with a well-known foreign correspondent, whose idealism associated with personal ambition, told in the “For Sama,” the personal history of an activist, the citizen journalist, to find in your nightmare everyday life in a sense.
“Sama” is clearly the result of a long editing process, in which raw material is a strong, human story has been shaped. This distinguishes the Film from the content of citizen journalists, and in particular to the reports from a war zone. Sean Ryan emphasized that it was for the editors in this kind of Material is difficult, how trustworthy your sources are.
She was one of the most prominent War reporters of the world: Marie Colvin
A further difficulty is the former foreign editor sees that the laity can not reach the same global effect as prominent journalists – this was clearly one of the Strengths of Marie Colvin. An important example of the significant impact of Colvin played out in East Timor in 1999. There, they refused to leave a besieged area in which around 1,500 women and children were held captive. UN officials said that the Colvins have contributed to international reporting significantly to the rescue of these people: “From this Moment on, you had the feeling that you do not discard their work only testimony of atrocities, but also can save lives,” says Ryan.
Even if your coverage can be seen in East Timor on the one hand, as a source of inspiration for journalists, so the death of Marie Colvin and other journalists held on the other hand, the news channels from sending correspondents into specific areas of conflict. Thus, this field is for freelancers who are exposed to without the protection of established news agencies even greater risks.
On the state of emergency, in addition to
Francesca Mannocchi, Co-Director of the “ISIS, Tomorrow – The Lost Souls of Mosul” was on the Human Rights Film Festival, to talk about their work. In a discussion on work in conflict zones, gave them insight into their own view of war reporting.
A scene from “ISIS, Tomorrow” by Francesca Mannocchi and Alessio Romenzi
Her documentary focuses on the Situation in the Iraqi city of Mosul after the defeat of the terrorist organization Islamic state. She conducts Interviews with children who had been recruited by either the ISIS or their families in the conflict have lost. So, it is clear that the seeds of terror in the minds of these children and the widow are still present. “Is is just a Logo,” said Mannocchi. “Even if the Name changes, it will continue the same ideology more.”
Mannocchi says she has changed your own perspective on conflict reporting through projects such as this Film: “One of the mistakes of our journalistic approach is that we have to turn the camera off, as soon as the conflict is over,” she said to the DW.
“Everything in the news is always presented as a sudden emergency, as it would have come out of nowhere, without any connection with the past and the future,” said Mannocchi.
The Italian journalist Francesca Mannocchi has reported about conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Libya
She believes that even the most complex post-war situations need to be investigated, if one wants to go beyond the media stereotypes and beyond. Perhaps this would have even a Chance to avoid the policy, recurring errors. Mannocchi find that the media avoid the complexity of the issues by placing your focus on “emergencies” and the Islamists to confer an advantage: “when are we going to learn something from the past? You have done it,” she says, and refers to political developments, such as, for example, the US withdrawal from Iraq without a comprehensive Plan or as the IS in a period of less than four years, a community of 20,000 supporters built up. “As a journalist, I try to associate the points,” says Francesca Mannocchi. “But my goal is not to give simple answers. I would like to convey the same doubts and Dilemmas that I experience as well.”
The Human Rights Film Festival in Berlin takes up to 25. September, 2019.