Solidarity | Premiere in Kooperation mit der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

In the organizer's words:

SOLIDARITY

Premiere on Wednesday, 24.09., 19:00 in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

followed by a panel discussion with:

• David Bernet, director
• René Repasi, MEP
• Marta Siciarek, Polish human rights activist and protagonist of the film

Moderation: Jasmin Astaki-Bardeh, journalist

D/CH 2025 | Director: David Bernet | 90 min. | FSK 12
Documentary film

Solidarity is one of the most valuable principles of human communities - and at the same time a deeply contradictory one. It can be understood as a universal claim to care for all living things, but it can also turn into a force of exclusion or even a call for bestial violence.

The protagonists of this film are professionals in solidarity work. They are not first responders, but people who work deep within the humanitarian system of "global solidarity". They operate at different levels, from regional grassroots structures to the highest levels of the United Nations:

A human rights activist and a migration counselor in Poland, representatives of the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) in Geneva, as well as a philosopher in Beirut show us the bright as well as the dark sides of solidarity. The film takes us from the migration crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border to the refugee movement from Ukraine immediately after the Russian invasion and finally to the solidarity clash in the Middle East, where humanitarian human rights have begun to falter.

"Global solidarity" is an achievement of the global community as a lesson from the destruction of the Second World War and has been a complicated and sensitive human project ever since. Does this solidarity need to be reinvented today in a world full of crises and disasters?

Price information:

regular: € 10,- | reduced: € 8,- (Reduction: Guild pass, students, pupils, senior citizens over 65, severely disabled pass, social pass)