Gallery

27th March – Opening Night
Images: Nadia Lanfranchi

HRFF Zurich Team: Katharina Morawek (President), Josephine Tedder (Side Events & Coordination), Sascha Bleuler (Director) & Nina Oppliger (Communication & Coordination)

Creators of our amazing anniversary graphic design Mirabella-Morganti & Voellm + Walthert

Murielle Perritaz (Co-Director City of Zurich Culture)

Full house for the opening film IN THE LAND OF BROTHERS

Katharina Morawek (President HRFF Zurich)in conversation with Sascha Bleuler (Director HRFF Zurich)

Lidija Burčak reads from «Nöd us Zucker»

Q&A with filmmaker Alireza Ghasemi, moderated by Marguerite Meyer

Jenny Billeter (Board Member HRFF Zurich)

The public in conversation with Alireza Ghasemi (film maker IN THE LAND OF BROTHERS)

Sascha Bleuler (Director HRFF Zurich), Martina Felber and Jenny Billeter (Kino Xenix)

Opening Apéro at Riffraff Bistro

Camerawoman Claudia Bach

Ronit Zafran (Kein &Aber), Peter Goetz (Co-Producer SEARCHING FOR AMANI), Michelle Akanji (Board Member HRFF Zurich)

Katharina Morawek (President HRFF Zurich) and guests

Michelle Akanji, Michèle Wannaz (Board Members HRFF Zurich)

Marguerite Meyer (Moderator HRFF Zurich)

28th March – Day 2
Images: Olaya Sánchez

Maja Tschumi (filmmaker IMMORTALS) in conversation with Sascha Bleuler (Director HRFF Zurich)

Santiago Maza Stern (filmmaker STATE OF SILENCE) in conversation with Lisa Salza (Amnesty International Schweiz)

Our lovely friends from Marktlücke Zürich upcycled our old festival banner. Check it out at Zollhaus!

Lisa Salza (Amnesty International Switzerland), moderator of the panel following STATE OF SILENCE

Sascha Bleuler, Nina Oppliger, Josephine Tedder (Team HRFF Zurich)

Maja Tschumi (Filmmaker IMMORTALS)

As usual, our festival takes place at Riffraff in Zurich

IMMORTALS – one of our 22 festival films of the 10th anniversary edition

29th March 2025 – Tag 3
Images: Olaya Sánchez & Sascha Bleuler

Brandy Butler performing at Das Gleis

BOOKS FOR CHANGE: At the 25hours Hotel Langstrasse, the publisher Kein & Aber presents selected titles on human rights issues

A RIVER GETS IT RIGHT at sogar theater: Talk with lawyer and activist María Ximena González-Serrano in the framework of our cooperation with @stapferhaus

INTERCEPTED: Katri Hoch, Programme Manager Ukraine at Solidar Suisse, moderated by Emanuel Tandler

Most beautiful anniversary festival bags by Ensoie

Festival guests at Riffraff

Screening of UNION in cooperation with Public Eye and Tsüri.ch

UNION: Textile and trade expert David Hachfeld from Public Eye and Iwan Schauwecker journalist at Workzeitung/Unia about labour struggles at Amazon & Co.

The HRFF Zurich booklet

Brandy Butler performing at Das Gleis

So many sold out screenings

Claudia Bach and Olaya Sánchez documenting the festival

THE FORGOTTEN WAR – panel following SUDAN, REMEMBER US with Rasha Ahmed, Strategic Communications Advisor at Médecins Sans Frontières and Mohannad Abou Shoak, moderated by Monika Bolliger

30. März 2025 – Day 4
Images: Johannes Hofmann

UNDERCOVER: EXPOSING THE FAR RIGHT filmmaker Havana Marking and Joe Mulhall, Lead Researcher «HOPE not Hate»

TRICKY JUSTICE – Quiz at Das Gleis moderated by Sarah Binz

THE WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT: talk with the film editor Katharina Fiedler, moderated by Sascha Bleuler

UNDERCOVER: EXPOSING THE FAR RIGHT filmmaker Havana Marking and Joe Mulhall, Lead Researcher «HOPE not Hate» about strategies and the danger of elitist, right-wing underground organisations. Moderated by HRFF Zurich President Katharina Morawek

Our favourite hangout bar Das Gleis at Zollhaus

31 March 2025 – Day 5
Images: Jonathan Labusch

Full house at the school screening of ECHTE SCHWEOIZER

ECHTE SCHWEIZER filmmaker Luka Popadić

OLGA film maker Ellie Grappe

FRIEREN with Fatima Moumouni, Tanasgol Sabbagh, Donya Speaks at sogar theater

SEARCHING FOR AMANI Adrian Förster, CEO Save the Children Schweiz, film maker Debra Aroko and film maker co-producer Peter Goetz, moderated by Ania Anna Mathis

Moderator Ania Anna Mathis (Black Film Festival Zurich)

NAME ME LAWAND presentation of the Prix Célestine with Interfilm Schweiz and talk with the filmmaker Edward Lovelace

1st April – Day 6
Images: Olivia Kurz

HRFF Zurich 2025

PREPARATIONS FOR A MIRACLE talk with filmmaker Tobias Nölle and Georg Klingler Heiligtag, climate expert at Greenpeace Switzerland, moderated by Jenny Billeter

10 Jahre HRFF Zurich 2025 at Riffraff

BILDER IM KOPF Q&A with filmmaker Eleonora Camizzi, moderated by Rhea Plangg

10 years HRFF Zurich 2025 at Riffraff

Our lovely festival bags made by Ensoie

10 years HRFF Zurich 2025 at Riffraff

HRFF Zurich 2025

2nd April – Closing Day
Images: Jonathan Labusch

10 years HRFF Zurich – it's a wrap!

There are almost no tickets left for the screenings of the closing day at Riffraff

SAVE OUR SOULS panel with Anja Bohnsack SOS Méditerrannée, Julia Schäfermeyer, Team «Ocean Viking» and Anna Jikhareva (WOZ), moderated by Marguerite Meyer