New FIFDH media collaborations
In dialogue with a programme that brings together documentary and fiction, the Festival explores how images shape our perception of the world, while inaugurating new collaborations with engaged media outlets.
My Brother’s Keeper
The Guardian Documentaries partners with FIFDH 2026 to celebrate ten years of documentary filmmaking that gives voice to underrepresented human stories, bringing together strong visual language with rigorous journalistic foundations.
A special screening will present three emblematic short films: My Brother’s Keeper by Laurence Topham, We Did Not Consent by Dorothy Allen-Pickard, and Give Me Shelter by Tom Silverstone. This partnership further encompasses the professional programme Impact Days, with a panel featuring Lindsay Poulton (Editorial Director, Film & TV) and other international professionals, as well as into the Schools Programme with The Things We Don’t Say by Ornella Mutoni.
We Did Not Consent
(The Guardian Documentaries)
Alice au pays des colons
(Blast)
The Festival inaugurates a new collaboration with the independent feminist media outlet La Déferlante, through a Forum dedicated to unpaid labour as a starting point for rethinking trade union struggles.
It further renews its partnership with Blast, with the screening of Alice au pays des colons by Yanis Mhamdi as a particularly resonant moment, a documentary that reveals the everyday forms of resistance of a Palestinian family facing settler violence in the West Bank.
FIFDH supports the campaign
against the SSR initiative
In an age of misinformation, fake news, and manipulative content—amplified by artificial intelligence—the FIFDH reaffirms the importance of reliable, independent, and impartial public media. These issues lie at the heart of the reflections of the 24ᵗʰ edition.
In this context, the Festival supports the campaign against the SSR initiative. A reduction in its funding would jeopardize public service media and undermine access for the entire Swiss population to an independent, high-quality source of information. Indeed, the SSR guarantees fact-checking and access to comprehensive, pluralistic information.
Furthermore, alongside the FOC, the SSR is one of the main supporters of Swiss cinema. It makes a significant contribution to the production and distribution of cultural works from all regions and sectors of the country. Without this collaboration, many projects would struggle to see the light of day.