Justice Frame Day

Together with the Asser Institute and VU Amsterdam, Movies that Matter present a full-day in-depth exploration into the world of film and global justice. Participants have exclusive access to closed sessions of the Global Justice Cinema seminar and access to the Masterclass and the Justice Frame Night. 

Global Justice Cinema seminar

Documentary film is a very powerful medium in the field of global justice. It can document human rights violations, prove war crimes in court, or communicate a strong call for solidarity and action. But documentary filmmaking is never just a ‘neutral’ registration of reality. In two sessions, Professor Wouter Werner and Dr. Sofia Stolk (VU Amsterdam) invite you to explore the connection between justice, documentary film, truth and evidence with a focus on the films in the Justice Frame competition. 

Wouter Werner and Sofia Stolk work at the transnational law department at VU Amsterdam where they research and teach, amongst other things, on film and knowledge production in the context of international law, human rights, and world politics. 

Masterclass with Nani Jansen Reventlow

The Justice Frame Masterclass 2025 is delivered by Nani Jansen Reventlow. Justice will be the central focus of this year’s masterclass. Illustrated by film fragments from the Justice Frame programme and Nani Jansen Reventlow’s book “Radical Justice”, many facets of justice will be touched upon.  

Nani Jansen Reventlow
Nani Jansen Reventlow is an author and award-winning human rights lawyer specialised in strategic litigation at the intersection of human rights, social justice, and technology.

She is the founder of Systemic Justice, an organisation that seeks to radically transform how the law works for communities fighting for racial, social and economic justice. Nani has an extensive background in promoting human rights in the digital context and in defending journalists and activists in some of the most repressive environments in the world. She previously founded and built the Digital Freedom Fund, which supports digital rights litigation.

Nani is the author of Radicale rechtvaardigheid (Radical justice), a collection of 9 essays on how to build a better world, published in Dutch in 2024 with an English edition coming soon.

Justice Frame Night  

The documentary The Bibi Files (Alexis Bloom) will be at the centre of this year’s Justice Frame Night. The documentary explores the legal battle of the corruption cases related to Israelian president Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu. Following the film, there will be a panel with inspiring guestspeakers.