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EDITORIAL

After a difficult year in which this human world film festival had to completely reinvent itself, we are delighted to announce that the festival will now return to its natural habitat: the cinema. Encounter and interaction have always been essential to our festival, and we are thrilled that the theatres will again be a space for exchange.

The past year brought many challenges for the festival, but also new positive experiences and perspectives. We will, therefore, keep parts of last year's online edition and so, in addition to the screenings in the cinemas, this human world will present part of its program on the online hub.

This year's festival focuses strongly on showcasing the potential of cinematic processes for resistance, transformation and reflection. Fanning out the multi-layered scope of documentary processes, we understand film as an instrument and documentary filmmaking as visualized historiography. Film helps to shape collective memory and often allows unseen perspectives to become part of it.

The new focus section STILL RECORDING emphasizes this potential. The works presented here locate film as a form of witnessing and counter narratives, self-reflection, emancipation and resistance.

This year's opening film FLEE demonstrates the versatility of cinematic narrative possibilities. Animations and archival footage are the tools Jonas Poher Rasmussen uses to narrate the life of his school friend, who had to flee Afghanistan as a minor in the 1980s. Since the main protagonist must remain anonymous, the filmmaker works with the pseudonym Amin Nawabi, making it possible to tell the true story of an escape for the first time after 20 years. Rasmussen develops a cinematic language that allows the telling of a story which the protagonist himself is not in the position to articulate.

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With the possibility of locating the past in the now and establishing a connection to current events, the film builds a bridge that triggers a reflection: Who has the power to tell their own story? Which stories remain unheard because of the impossibility of telling them? What do risk and security mean for those telling their stories? At the same time, cinematic work raises questions about power structures and responsibilities. This year's festival trailer by Enar de Dios Rodríguez approaches the issue of the power of definition inherent in any re-contextualization of images. "Because there is a control that emerges by bringing things to sight, you know?" asks the voice-over narrator of the trailer. What power dynamics and consequences are inherent in making human action visible? Particularly in the interplay between cinema and human rights, the question of this responsibility comes to the fore.

In this year's program it becomes clear that film is not an isolated medium, but an intersection of art, historiography, politics and science.

Through collaborations with interdisciplinary artists such as Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, who put together the film focus OF WATER, AIR, FIRE AND EARTH, and Helin Celik, with whom we developed the discussion WHOSE STORY?, it becomes clear that film can be shaped, used, shown and understood in a wide diversity of ways.

As always, the festival program focuses on the protaonists and filmmakers, as well as on their realities, which they allow us to witness. this human world once again offers a platform for debate, opening up a space for conversations, discussions and interactions in order to situate the films we watch in the current political context. The discussions are diverse, critical, creative and appreciative of the interaction between audience, cooperation partners, filmmakers and the festival. We are looking forward to seeing you!

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