Human Rights Film Festival Berlin

2025 was a transitional year for the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin: Instead of a full festival edition, the team organized a special screening in October dedicated entirely to the humanitarian crisis in Sudan – a conflict that receives little attention from the international public, despite affecting millions of people.

In parallel, a school program ran: over 100 school screenings brought human rights films and discussions into Berlin classrooms. This structural decision served the content-related and organizational realignment of the festival: From 2026 onwards, HRFFB will permanently shift its main cycle to April. Co-director Jan Sebastian Friedrich-Rust justified the move by the necessary planning security and the need for space for content development.