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Unlimited Hope Festival 2021

Thu

09

Dec 2021

Thu

09

Dec 2021

Place: online

Start: 00:00

End: 00:00

Language: German/English

Admission fee: free

not barrier-free

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Unlimited Hope Festival

Fritz Bauer & Raphael Lemkin
Human Rights Film Award

The Human Rights Film Award of the BUXUS FOUNDATION and the BERG INSTITUTE honours filmmakers who have made outstanding contributions to human rights, democracy and dialogue in their cinema, television and film productions.

The films tell stories of survival and resistance. Stories of people who have survived genocide, war and social injustice and yet do not feel victimised. Films that not only explore the fate of the survivors and their relatives in documentary form, but also tell their stories artistically and emotionally.

Presentation of the
Award by the expert jury

An expert jury decides on the winners of the Fritz Bauer & Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Film Award.

The films compete in two categories. A special prize may also be awarded. The awards will be presented at the Fritz Bauer Forum in Bochum at the end of the Unlimited Hope film festival. All categories are endowed.

Films about the „fight for human rights“

The honoured films of our Fritz Bauer & Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Film Award explore and unite the stories of people fighting for human rights worldwide – their own and those of others. What drives them to resist? Where do they find the strength to do so in situations where others, often everyone, falls silent and adapts to injustice? What can we do ourselves?

Our films tell the stories of the „fight for human rights“. This is the only way to keep the voices of resistance alive and strengthen human rights.