Rights and Freedoms Award

Sofía Peypoch returns to the site of her kidnapping. Amid the darkness and silence, her hands search underground for traces of a buried memory. Others replicate this chimerical gesture. The…

In the sunset of the second industrial revolution, men and women who make ships and airplanes with their hands face the collapse of industry in a small region in Southern…

In order to reflect upon current practices of political dissent, we delve into the past and follow the experiences of a young artist. Invited to go underground in Portugal, during…

The Mexican landscape fades away into ashes and dust, fragmented, defaced and scorched. Behind barbed wire fences, forests, rivers and mountains fall to the hands of private companies. Once transformed,…

Motherland underscores the causes and consequences of the decades-old tradition of violent bullying and torture as a means of control over Belarusian military conscripts. Svetlana lives with this traumatic reality:…

Jamal Abdel Kader is the only psychiatrist in a 400-bed state hospital on the outskirts of Paris. Dedicated to his patients, he does his utmost to soothe their pain, to…

In 2016, Sara began documenting her visits to her family’s garden outside of Tehran. Here, she spends her days with her father, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, one of the most prolific contemporary…

1985, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The trial of the Military Juntas of the last dictatorship (1976/83), accused of crimes against humanity. As in Nuremberg after World War II, the trial is…

Hija de Perra was a transvestite artist who became an icon of dissidence and a reference for the Latin American underground scene after her death in 2014. Through multiple intimate…

Two actors are seated at a table, on the surface of which their images are reflected like their doubles; three long monologues each, spoken quickly, as if answering an interviewer.…

On International Human Rights Day, I lost my right to stay in Europe. On the same day, Diário de um Crime was born. What is a documentary (a document of…