For the 15th time, the international human rights film festival This Human World is bringing films to Vienna that deal with socio-political issues and challenges in a wide variety of ways and bring the global handling of human rights to the screen.
Insights into new worlds
From today until December 11, around 90 feature, documentary and short films – including many Austrian premieres – will be shown in four Viennese cinemas (Schikaneder, Top Kino, Gartenbaukino, Stadtkino) and two other venues (Brunnenpassage, Stand 129). want to span a broad spectrum between cinematic enjoyment, sophisticated entertainment and entering new, unknown worlds.
Unusual ways of looking at things should create new impressions that can expand the usual worldview in some places and cause it to falter in others. It’s about journeys into new worlds, glimpses into social backyards, outrageous stories from the past, memories that can add new lines to the memory of history.
The Iranian feature film “Ta Farda” by Ali Asgari will be shown at the opening of the Gartenbaukino. “In times when we are reminded of the precarious situation of women in Iran, it is an act of solidarity to open ‘This Human World’ in 2022 with an Iranian film with a feminist perspective. Our thoughts are with the mostly very young people who fear reprisals and, in the worst case, even death, and still take to the streets for freedom,” the press release said.