Documentary about Palestinian doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish, which won the Audience Award at MtMF24.
With Movies that Matter On Tour, we bring our festival favourites to seventeen film theatres across the Netherlands. In November, it is Atiye Zare Arandi’s documentary Grand Me. About the film Melina lives with her loving grandparents in the Iranian city of Isfahan. Her parents have divorced and neither her mum nor her dad are...
Movies that Matter and the European Parliament invite you to a free special film screening of Of Caravan and the Dogs. This documentary takes you into the lives of Russian journalists fighting for press freedom and democracy. After the film, we will discuss together what freedom of the press, democratic values and the role of...
Movies that Matter and the European Parliament invite you to a free special film screening of Of Caravan and the Dogs. This documentary takes you into the lives of Russian journalists fighting for press freedom and democracy. After the film, we will discuss together what freedom of the press, democratic values and the role of...
Get to know the (new) members of our viewing committee!
At our festival this March we met up with Meninaputri Wismurti, who gave several workshops for international festival organizers during the Cinema without Borders programme. A veteran of the film industry, she is the co-founder and programme director of the yearly international 100% Manusia festival in Jakarta, Indonesia. She discusses some of her greatest challenges and victories in organizing her human rights festival with us.
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