Human Rights Education - In the Cinema
Using film to teach lessons on human rights and expand horizons
Using the cinema as the classroom, ASK WHY? Docs encourages school students to engage with contemporary social and environmental issues through watching critically acclaimed documentary films from all corners of the world.
Three times during the academic school year, ASK WHY? Docs invites students from 20 Danish municipalities to local cinema screenings of thought-provoking documentary films that all center on human rights issues.

Where ASK WHY? Docs held screenings and Q&As in the 2022/2023.
Every screening is followed by a Q&A session with an expert on the subjects handled in the film. Examples from the 2022/2023 season include:
Yaqoub Ali
Former head of an extremist Muslim group in Denmark. Today he works to prevent other young people from becoming radicalized
Nicolaj Laue Juhl
Former political spokesperson of the Danish LGBT+ youth organization, LGBT+ Ungdom, and author of the first ever report on the well-being of queer you in Denmark.
Anusha Samia
First girl to join 'Panna house' in Denmark. She works actively to include more girls and women in the world of sports.
Daniel Høybye
Has lived on-and-off the streets of Copenhagen since he was 14. A board member of SAND - an organization for the homeless.
Simon Lerang Wilmont
Oscar nominated director of the film Oleg and the War.
Additionally, ASK WHY? Docs provide the schools with educational material, encouraging them to continually explore the themes back in the classrooms, both before and after screenings.
Our latest impact report found that ASK WHY? Docs has a positive effect on both the community and the individual:
- 99% of participating teachers say they enjoyed our sessions and the educational material.
- 90% of participating students say they enjoyed ASK WHY? Docs with nearly three-fourths stating they have learned something new.
- In 2022-2023 ASK WHY? Docs reaches nearly 6000 students across Denmark.
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Where ASK WHY? Docs held screenings and Q&As in the 2022/2023.
Kronprins Frederiks og Kronprinsesse Marys Fond
Det Arnstedtske Familiefond
Den A.P. Møllerske Støttefond
DFI - Det Danske Filminstitut
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