Impressions HRFF Zurich 202
Gallery
2022
Opening Thursday, 01 December 2022

Call to action: our graphic designer Rebecca Morganti-Pfaffhauser (Photos: Michelle Ettlin)

HRFF president Katharina Morawek

Full house at Kosmos

Video message by Lionel Baier, director of opening film CONTINENTAL DRIFT (SOUTH)

HRFF president Sascha Lara Bleuler

Rebekka Fässler, co-director Kultur, Stadt Zürich

ROTZLOCH crew (ltr): protagonist Aminullah Habibi, producer Kaspar Kasics, director Maja Tschumi and Marcel Gschwend (music)

Talk after ROTZLOCH cinema premiere with director Maja Tschumi, protagonist Aminullah Habibi (right) and Dominic Schmid (WOZ)

Welcome desk

Yadolah Dodge, director of the Iranian Film Festival Zurich, and Sascha Lara Bleuler, director of HRFF Zurich

Sascha Lara Bleuler with Iranian activists Maryam Banihashemi and Talayeh Dehghani

Congolese screenwriter and director Maisha Maene next to his video installation at Kinoallee at Kosmos, part of this year's CALL TO ACTION

Festival team: Sascha Lara Bleuler, Josephine Tedder, Janine Bleuler, Lukas Keller

Kosmos entrance
Friday, 02 Dezember 2022

School screening of WHERE IS ANNE FRANK? (Photos: Michelle Ettlin)

School screening of WHERE IS ANNE FRANK?

Entrance to Kosmos

Sibylle Obrist, Chief Staff of the Department of Peace and Human Rights, FDFA

Léo Kaneman, founder and honorary president of HRFF Zurich

Letta Tayler (left), Associate Director of Crises and Conflict at Human Rights Watch, and Azadeh Moaveni, Iranian-American academic, journalist and author, discuss with host Marguerite Meyer after THE RETURN: LIFE AFTER ISIS

Food tasting with Die Einmachbibliothek at Kosmos

Zana Hoxha (right), Member of Kosova Womens Network, founder of Femart Festival, discussing with host Dana Landau after the film VERA DREAMS OF THE SEA

Panel after the film AMONG US WOMEN
Saturday, 03 Dezember 2022

Performance by Melinda Nadj Abonji & Jurczok 1001 at Kosmos (Photos: Michelle Ettlin)

Screening of the film ALIS


Nicolas van Hemelryck, co-director of ALIS

This year’s festival bag by enSoie

Discussion after INTO THE ICE: Glaciologist Mylène Jacquemart, Marcel Hänggi (center, Initiator of the Glacier Initiative) and host Georg Klingler of Greenpeace Switzerland

ASCENSION: Discussion with Bernhard Herold (center, former programme officer Asia, Solidar), Thomas Braunschweig (expert for commercial politics, Public Eye) and Katharina Morawek, president of HRFF Zurich

Zdenka Sokolíčková (on screen), anthropologist and protagonist of the film NÁVŠTĚVNÍCI - THE VISITORS on a panel with director Veronika Lišková and host Emanuel Schäublin (board of HRFF Zurich}

THE HAMLET SYNDROME: Talk with the directors Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski, hosted by Till Brockmann (Semaine de la Critique Locarno Film Festival)

Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski (THE HAMLET SYNDROME) and host Till Brockmann

Gessica Généus (on screen), director of FREDA, talks to the audience after her film
Sunday, 04 December 2022

Screening of JE SUIS NOIRES (fltr): Director Rachel M'Bon, Ania Anna Mathis, Carmel Fröhlicher-Stines, Mandy Abou Shoak (Photos: Michelle Ettlin)

CALL TO ACTION: In a workshop by SOCIAL FABRIC visitors designed greeting cards and learned from people with refugee experience about their life in Zurich

Lionel Baier, director of CONTINENTAL DRIFT (SOUTH), talking to the audience after the film with host Marcy Goldberg

THE ILLUSION OF ABUNDANCE: Director Matthieu Lietaert (left) discusses with Ueli Locher (Peace Watch Switzerland) and Nina Burri (HEKS) and host Marguerite Meyer (right)

Questions from the audience after the screening of THE ILLUSION OF ABUNDANCE

Host Ania Anna Mathis from the Black Film Festival Zurich introduces the film JE SUIS NOIRES

Standing ovations for JE SUIS NOIRES

JE SUIS NOIRES: film team and partners from the Black Film Festival Zurich

Discussion on the reality of women and the protest movements in Iran with the activist Maryam Banihashemi (left) after the screening of UNTIL TOMORROW, hosted by Sascha Bleuler (Director HRFF Zurich)

CALL TO ACTION: At the stand of THE RIGHT HUMANS PROJECT, visitors could get items stamped with articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

CALL TO ACTION: At the stand of THE RIGHT HUMANS PROJECT, visitors could get items stamped with articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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