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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 33 Danish municipalities to local cinema screenings of thought-provoking documentary films that all center on human rights issues.

Map of Denmark with pin markers on cities which have hosted ASK WHY screenings.
Where ASK WHY? Docs held screenings and Q&As in the 2022/2023.

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Some films from the 2023/2024 season

Expert guests

Every screening is followed by a Q&A session with an expert on the subjects handled in the film. Examples from the 2023/2024 season include:

Yaqoub Ali

Former head of an extremist Muslim group in Denmark. Today he works to prevent other young people from becoming radicalized

Popal Naseri

Popal Naseri, the eldest brother in the documentary 'Follow Me Home'. He fled Afghanistan as a teenager because the Taliban attempted to recruit him as a suicide bomber.

Mary Consolata Namagambe

Social activist, lawyer, entrepreneur and debater. Founder of She for She and the company #GirlsWillBeGirls!

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. Has filmed extensively near the frontline in Ukraine, prior to the 2022 invasion.

Learning in the cinema

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 reached nearly 6000 students across Denmark.
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Where ASK WHY? Docs are screening in 2023/2024

Interested in having ASK WHY? Docs bring a screening to your class or school? 

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Region Syddanmark
Sparekassen Bornholms Fond
Færchfonden
OPEN
Dansk Tennis Fond
Frederiksberg Fonden
Det Arnstedtske Familiefond
Biografklub Danmark
Den A.P. Møllerske Støttefond
Spar Nord Fonden
DFI - Det Danske Filminstitut
Lauritzen Foundation
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