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Welcome to the Free Speech Film Festival!
2024 Free Speech Film Festival Award Winner
ICELAND, On the Trail of Democracy
2024 Free Speech Award Official Selections
Sermersuaq is a powerful documentary that offers an intimate perspective on climate change in the Arctic. It follows the stories of Michael, a hunter from Qaanaaq, the northernmost town of Greenland, and Marc, a scientist on a quest for truth. Different origins, same common purpose: preserving Sermersuaq, Greenland's great ice sheet
15 min | 2024 | Greenland, Italy
GREENLAND | SERMERSUAQ-the great ice-
Fearlessly challenging constraints on free expression in India, the documentary calls for the defence of free speech amidst censorship and violence. Against the backdrop of Hindu hegemony, it serves as a tribute to the transformative power of safeguarding fundamental rights.
58 min | 2024 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom
INDIA | Offenders
Are we responsible for our destiny? Do we have the ability to change the circumstances of our lives? The students of a Girls High school have lived the answers to these questions.
96 min | 2024 | Iran, Islamic Republic of
IRAN | From the Cradle to the Grave
A couple (Kurds of Iraqi Kurdistan) have decided to cross the border because of the war in their land. The woman is pregnant. They have difficult and impassable roads ahead of them.
15 min | 2023 | Iran, Islamic Republic of
IRAN | The Borders Never Die
Climate change, school shootings, racial tensions, and devastating wars are just some of the issues Gen Z will soon inherit. "The Future is Ours" is a 35-minute documentary featuring Gen Z journalists from across the country engaged in challenging conversations we all need to hear and have. Many are eligible to vote for the first time in the next election.
35 min | 2024 | United States
USA | The Future is Ours
SPEAK EZ Interviews
American INSIGHT's online SPEAK EZ interviews that showcase Free Speech Film TM award-winning directors and globally-known artists, authors and scholars.
2024 | United States
Speak EZ Interview with Chrishenda Dawkins
American INSIGHT's online SPEAK EZ interviews that showcase Free Speech Film TM award-winning directors and globally-known artists, authors and scholars.
57 min | 2023 | United States
Speak EZ Interview with Coralie Van Rietschoten
Speak EZ Interview with Ganzorig Vanchig
2024
Speak EZ Interview with Ganzorig Vanchig
American INSIGHT's online SPEAK EZ interviews that showcase Free Speech Film TM award-winning directors and globally-known artists, authors and scholars.
2024 | United States
Speak EZ Interview with Major Gloria Downey
American INSIGHT's online SPEAK EZ interviews that showcase Free Speech Film TM award-winning directors and globally-known artists, authors and scholars.
2023 | United States
SPEAK EZ interview with Melinda Raebyne
American INSIGHT's online SPEAK EZ interviews that showcase Free Speech Film TM award-winning directors and globally-known artists, authors and scholars.
37 min | 2023 | United States
Speak EZ Interview with Raheel Raza
American INSIGHT's online SPEAK EZ interviews that showcase Free Speech Film TM award-winning directors and globally-known artists, authors and scholars.
2024 | United States
SPEAK EZ interview with Sam French
American INSIGHT's online SPEAK EZ interviews that showcase Free Speech Film TM award-winning directors and globally-known artists, authors and scholars.
2023 | United States
SPEAK EZ interview with Sebastian Rich
American INSIGHT's online SPEAK EZ interviews that showcase Free Speech Film TM award-winning directors and globally-known artists, authors and scholars.
2023 | United States
SPEAK EZ interview with Wu-Ching
American INSIGHT's online SPEAK EZ interviews that showcase Free Speech Film TM award-winning directors and globally-known artists, authors and scholars.
2023 | United States
SPEAK EZ: Kermit Kermit Roosevelt III
2023 Free Speech Film Festival Award Winner
USA | Ellos Gritan Libertad (They Scream Freedom)
2023 Free Speech Award Official Selections
78 min | 2021 | Afghanistan
AFGHANISTAN | With This Breath I Fly
97 min | 2022 | Mongolia
MONGOLIA | Trio
17 min | 2021 | United States
USA | My Mother's Voice
30 min | 2022 | United States
USA | We Live
110 min | 2020 | United States
USA | Women of War: Invisible
2022 Free Speech Film Festival Award Winner
USA | Jazz in China
2022 Free Speech Film Festival Official Selections
In China like everywhere, a woman's place in society is linked to politics and tradition. But China's politics and tradition make a unique setting on earth. It's within this context that Lulu emerges.
50 min | 2021 | France
FRANCE | Chinese Cancan - Lulu, a Chinese Woman
Using a variety of animation techniques, including egg yolk as paint, filmmaker Wu-Ching Chang creates a stirring tribute to her grandmother who, as a T'ung-yang-hsi, was sold as a young girl to another family and raised as their future daughter-in-law. Forced to perform the household chores and denied an education, this hardworking woman found freedom through financial independence.
9 min | 2021
TAIWAN | My Grandmother Is an Egg
In an age of hyperpolarization, the UVA Center for Politics documentary "Common Grounds?" examines the political climate on a college campus, at the Grounds of the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson. Through interviews with students from across the political spectrum, and a group dialogue between some of these students, the film asks a simple question: "Can tomorrow's generation find common ground?"
29 min | United States
USA | Common Grounds?
After witnessing human rights abuses at a detention center for undocumented immigrant children, an idealistic young reporter — already traumatized by what she has seen — is subjected to an onslaught of death threats. Pushed to the brink of a breakdown and petrified to the point where she can no longer do her job, she turns to an old friend for help.
22 min | 2021
USA | Urania Leilus
The story of four refugee women who stand on their own feet despite their families' pain and difficulty.
23 min | 2020
TURKEY | Strength Among Us
2021 Free Speech Film Festival Award Winner
UNITED KINGDOM | Footsteps on the Wind
2021 Free Speech Film Festival Official Selections
Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia of all time – by looking at the inner life of Wikipedia, the documentary deals with issues of perspective, representation and Western-centrism.
52 min | 2021 | Germany
GERMANY | The Wikipedia Promise
The film follows the less-known aspects of the lives of four “web stars” – Israeli YouTubers: Moti Taka, one of the busiest singers in Israel today, who visits Ethiopia for the first time with his mother Dalia.
57 min | 2019 | Israel
ISRAEL | In Your Eyes
The brothers Jano and Shiro are inseparable. When war breaks out in Syria, they flee together in search of a better life for themselves and their family.
35 min | 2020 | Netherlands
NETHERLANDS | Jano & Shiro, a Brothers' Journey
Days Before the Dawn is a documentary about the history of dissent in Hong Kong. Britain handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997 without ever consulting the people of Hong Kong.
34 min | 2020 | United States
USA | Days Before the Dawn
Deep Breath is an Anti-racist, Art-as-Activism Film Project centered around an epic, 8-minute poem by Dr. Nia Nunn. Deep Breath brought diverse dancers together to feel her words, and dance to custom-composed music.
9 min | 2021 | United States
USA | Deep Breath
2020 Free Speech Film Festival Award Winner
USA | Boxed