Activists

Activists per festival edition

• 2024

  Dalton Harris – Dalton’s Dream

  Rachita Taneja – Drawing a Line

  Whanganui River – I Am the River, the River Is Me

  Mediha Alhamad – Mediha

  Kirill Martynov – Of Caravan and the Dogs

  Wanjugu Kimathi – Our Land, Our Freedom

  Muhammad Rabbani – Phantom Parrot

  Puyr Tembé – We Are Guardians

• 2023

  Payoshni Mitra – Category: Woman

  Esther Kiobel – Esther & the Law

  Yasser Louati – The Flag

  Sara Cunningham – Mama Bears

  Shahrzad Jabbari – Seven Winters in Tehran

  Annina van Neel – A Story of Bones

  Paúl Jarrín Mosquera – This Stolen Country of Mine

  Ravish Kumar – While We Watched

• 2022

  Memory Banda (Malawi) – Bigger Than Us

  Daxiong (China) – Eternal Spring (長春)

  The Faceless Four (Hong Kong), represented by Samuel Chu – Faceless

  Czeslaw Walek (Czech Republic) – The Law of Love

  Vivian Anderson (USA) – On These Grounds

  Neidinha en Txai Suruí (Brazil) – The Territory

  Esty Shushan (Israel) – Women of Valor

  Meera Devi (India) – Writing With Fire

• 2021

  Lilian Tintori (Venezuela) – A La Calle

  Cathy O’Neil (USA) – Coded Bias

  Hatice Cengiz & Omar Abdulaziz (Saudi-Arabia) – The Dissident

  Teodora del Carmen Vásquez (El Salvador) – Fly so Far

  Nasrin Sotoudeh (Iran) – Nasrin

  Tran to Nga (Vietnam) – The People vs. Agent Orange

  Seyran Ateş (Germany) – Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution and Islam

  Maria Ressa (Philippines) – A Thousand Cuts

• 2020

  Irma Chávez (Mexico) – The Infinite Race

  Maatalii Okalik (Greenland) – The Last Ice

  Mai Khôi (Vietnam) – Mai Khoi & The Dissidents

  Máxima Acuña (Peru) – Maxima

  Ifeoma Fafunwa (Nigeria) – Mrs F.

  Atalya Ben-Abba (Israel) – Objector

  Boniface Mwangi (Kenya) – Softie

  Liu Ximei (China) – Ximei

• 2019

  Efraím Vegas (Venezuela) – Está Todo Bien

  Shaeera Kalla & Deliwe Mzobe (South-Africa) – Everything Must Fall

  Shakila Ibrahimkhail (Afghanistan) – Facing the Dragon

  Assia Boundaoui (USA) – The Feeling of Being Watched

  Patima Tungpuchayakul (Thailand) – Ghost Fleet

  Dian Maharani (Indonesia) – Grit

  Ali Feruz (Russia) – Novaya

  Farid Julicué (Colombia) – Onverharde Weg naar Vrede

• 2018

  Christine Schuler Deschryver & Jane Mukunilwa (DR Congo) – City of Joy

  Jaha Dukureh (Gambia) – Jaha’s Promise

  Joshua Wong (China) – Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower

  Mahmoud Hassino (Syria) – Mr. Gay Syria

  Naila Ayesh (Palestine) – Naila and the Uprising

  Jair Candor (Brasil) – Piripkura

  Silas Siakor (Liberia) – Silas

  Fatih Polat (Turkey) – Turkey on the Edge

• 2017

  Mutang Urud (Malaysia) – The Borneo Case

  Nadezhda Kutepova (Russia) – City 40
  

  Assaf Yacobovitz (Israel) en Jamel Al Qassas (Palestine) – Disturbing the Peace

  Leyla Imret (Turkey) – Dil Leyla

  Saliha Ben Ali (Belgium) – The Empty Room

  Clement Abaïfouta (Chad) – Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy

  Twiggy Pucci Garçon (USA) – Kiki

  Andeel (Egypt) – Tickling Giants

  Razia Jan (Afghanistan) – What Tomorrow Brings

• 2016

  Nicole Tung en Janine di Giovanni (Syria) – 7 Days in Syria
  

  Oleg Khabibrakhmanov (Chechnya) – Chechnya, War Without Trace
  

  William Binney (USA) – A Good American
  

  Ye Haiyan (China) – Hooligan Sparrow
  

  Consuelo Morales (Mexico) – Kingdom of Shadows
  

  Eliete Paraguassu (Brasil) – No Rio e No Mar!
  

  Ensaf Haidar (Saudi- Arabia) – Saudi Arabia: a Wind of Change
  

  Parvez Sharma (Saudi- Arabia) – A Sinner in Mecca
  

  Sonita Alizadeh (Afghanistan) – Sonita
  

  Fadimata Walet Oumar (Mali) – They Will Have to Kill Us First: Malian Music in Exile
  

• 2015

  Maurice Tomlinson (Jamaica) – The Abominable Crime
  

  Claudia Paz y Paz (Guatemala) – Burden of Peace
  

  Ella Polyakova (Russia) – Cargo 200
  

  Edward Snowden (USA) – CITIZENFOUR
  

  Nawal el-Saadawi (Egypt) – The Free Voice of Egypt
  

  Denis Mukwege (DR Congo) – The Man who Mends Women
  

  Yassin al-Haj Saleh (Syria) – Our Terrible Country
  

  Albie Sachs (South-Africa) – Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa

  Hafsat Abiola (Nigeria) – The Supreme Price

  Maryam al-Khawaja (Bahrain) – We Are The Giant

• 2014

  Ala’a Basatneh (Syria) – #chicago Girl – The Social Network Takes on a Dictator

  Yves Yomb (Cameroon) – Born This Way

  Andrei Sannikov (Belarus) – Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus

  Ray McGovern (USA) – Dirty Wars

  Agripina Perea (Colombia) – Disruption

  Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza (Mexico) – Eufrosina’s Revolution

  Inna Sjevtsjenko (Ukraine) – Everyday Rebellion

  Pussy Riot (Russia) – Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

  Meron Estefanos (Eritrea) – The Sound of Torture

  Muhammed Hamdy (Egypt) – The Square

• 2013

  Frank Mugisha (Uganda) – Call me Kuchu

  Shin Dong-hyuk (North-Korea) – Camp 14: Total Control Zone

  Tep Vanny (Cambodia) – Even a Bird Needs a Nest

  Yoani Sánchez (Cuba) – Forbidden Voices

  Zhou Shuguang (China) – High Tech, Low Life
  

  Robi Damelin (Israel) – One Day After Peace

  Sergio Haro (Mexico) – Reportero

  Victor Erofeyev (Russia) – Russian Libertine
  

  Salma (India) – Salma

  Aminetou Haidar (West-Sahara) – Sons of the Clouds
  

• 2012

  Emad Burnat (Palestine) – 5 Broken Cameras

  Ai Weiwei (China) – Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

  Mnikelo Ndabankulu (South-Africa) – Dear Mandela

  Sergey Yenin (Belarus) – East Bloc Love

  Gene Sharp (USA) – How to Start a Revolution

  Ilya Yashin (Russia) – Putin’s Kiss

  Geronimo Arevalos (Paraguay) – Raising Resistance

  Sonali Samarasinghe (Sri Lanka) – Silenced Voices – Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile

  Sasha Volgina (Russia) – Sinners’ Disease

  Lilia Weslaty (Tunesia) – Zero Silence

• 2011

  Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar) – Aung San Suu Kyi – Lady of No Fear

  Ayed Morrar (Palestine) – Budrus

  Alice Nkom (Cameroon) – Cameroon: Coming Out of the Nkuta

  Marco Arana (Peru) – The Devil Operatio

  Yamileth Chavarría (Nicaragua) – The Jungle Radio

  Palagummi Sainath (India) – Nero’s Guests

  Andrei Nekrasov (Russia) – Russian Lessons
  

  Sister Fa (Senegal) – Sarabah
  

  Chris Mburu (Kenya) – A Small Act
  

  Suciwati (Indonesia), Angkhana (Thailand), Padma (Sri Lanka) – Unjust
  

• 2010

  Rebiya Kadeer (China) – The 10 Conditions of Love

  Amine Amrouch (Algeria) – Chanson pour Amine
  

  Somaly Mam (Cambodia) – Redlight

  Devi, Kranti, Krishna, Mandira en Ram Kumari (Nepal) – The Sari Soldiers
  

  Gustav Hofer en Luca Ragazzi (Italy) – Suddenly, Last Winter

  Ngawang Choephel (Tibet) – Tibet in Song
  

  Alberto Arce (Palestina) – To Shoot an Elephant
  

  Shadi Sadr (Iran) – Women in Shroud

  Laura Pollán Toledo (Cuba) – Women in White
  

  The Yes Men (USA) – The Yes Men Fix the World
  

• 2009

  Groep van dertig anonieme Birmese videoreporters (Myanmar) – Burma VJ – Reporting from a Closed Country
  

  Liberian Women of Peace (Liberia) – Pray the Devil Back to Hell
  

  Wangari Maathai (Kenya) – Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
  

  Hollman Morris (Colombia) – Unwanted Witness
  

  Emmanuel Jal (Sudan) – War Child