How much courage how much daring to filmmakers need to make documentaries nowadays we meet five people who push boundaries for their art. You know shes got a boy fights for the rights of women and muslims then by his side and i was like the only woman behind the camera sub and you know thats like not even one prison. But it was also. Sometimes a very openly hostile environment to be working in. Mohammad had a d. Tries to circumvent censorship in iran. Editor pedro garcia condemns the violence in mexico. Being a mexican that makes me a target thats the problem with every mexican is a target. Full fund campaigns for l. G. B. T. V. Rights in china hes an activist who fights for the freedom of game bisexual and transgender people palestinian we are young and wants people to know the truth about the divisions in his homeland if i get the story of my people to the world then the world is going to see injustice and then things will change unfortunately you realize very soon that thats not the world how the world functions. Five young filmmakers invited to participate in belly knowledge talents twenty seventeen a networking platform of the biggest german Film Festival the ballina. Pedro garcia is a film editor who traveled. Billing from his home in mexico city Violent Crime and drug war fan all rushed there and people disappeared without a trace pedro wants to bring these topics to light he and a few friends write and cut films together and people dont ask questions as much as they should because they just want to see things arent as white or as black if its good or if its bad. A. Documentary about mayor in. In mexico. Because of the older drug brawling scene hes in his town and municipality he just started disappearing by the guys. Claims against the man will never substantiated the districts he serves is considered safe but by what means has he managed that. Myself and my was this is the defense that when we had it in that movie we had that problem of how do we portray this man as a good guy or as a bad guy and that in the end it wasnt neither it was just trying to portray him as he is and then the other the audience is the one that answers that question. To the guy talking about how hes been like you follow the flame and then we just see him. Where you see him. And see him a little bit more. If hes telling the truth or his lying or is here really can be interrupted he said maybe this reaction tells tells all that. He said he said really strong things before but. Then you you know call. The violence in mexico is really dangerous you know and if you want to tackle those subjects you have to be in really dangerous situation or meeting with dangerous people or asking then yours questions. Sometimes. We all appreciate our lives and we are were not heroes you are yes. People you know and we said we want to tackle that but how do we tackle it without without losing our lives. Cinematographer got a boy whos born in california her parents immigrated to the u. S. From pakistan shes the youngest of four daughters. I grew up in Orange County in california which is its a very white county its a very conservative county. The i was the only muslim kid in my school i was the only brown kid a lot of the times so yeah it was definitely like challenging going up there and then came nine eleven from then on no sheen questioned her muslim background and her face shortly after finishing her film studies she decided to rediscover her roots in two thousand and five pakistan suffered a severe earthquake it was given scant coverage in the American Media but it struck a chord with no sheen she took a camera and headed to the crisis sooner. The ground beneath their feet as her first documentary and shes not just behind the camera she also directed. You. Like it suitcases im like surprise with me and ive you know i was going into a disaster zone not knowing what that meant and not knowing what i was getting myself into. Them to. The end it would be the first of. The big thing in the night. In a hospital nosheen meant to women who were buried in the rubble of their homes the woman has a clear role in Pakistani Society she takes care of the home bush what happens if shes unable to walk like these women. But the. Main. Body who plays it do you know what you go deep about it was very shocking for me to go to pakistan i had a lot of preconceived notions growing up as an american and also ideas that even westerners have about muslim women. That there you know there are a price then theyve been like abused by men and by society and i ended up meeting. Women who were actually really strong and men who were very supportive of them and so the process of making the film was constantly a discovery for me too of like what these people were actually like other projects in pakistan followed one of the projects that i worked on that was about a squash player from the tribal areas of pakistan and you know she was being threatened by the taliban were. As baucus darmes number one ranked women in the world war young from the South Waziristan of the taliban. If not in one text me one playing squash what will happen is one thing we. Knew she had to set herself in a mans well. She lived and worked in pakistan for five years where she was the only female cinematographer. I think working in pakistan for five years and fighting the patriarchy every day was really hard on the. Men and women like question my Authority Just being the one behind the camera you know asking me if there was if there was a man that was telling me what i should be doing you know or if i you know could work as an assistant to a man rather than working as a cinematographer on my own and i just got to the point where i didnt know if it was all worth it you were instructed that you should be careful watch your movie going to work if i want to beat them in the spotlight and that is scary i know the higher the pool the higher you choose. The more the risk is going to be. For me straddling American Culture and pakistani culture it gave me like this unique way to kind of hopefully bring out voices from both sides that was one of the reasons why i really pursued filmmaking as a career because i know that theres a lot of power in media and i think that it was very important for for muslims for pakistanis for people from the muslim world to be able to tell their own stories the brunel trumps muslim travel ban drove notion to start a new project a documentary about people in the u. S. Who are both civil rights activists and muslims. But its a really difficult climate to be a person of color in the u. S. And definitely a Muslim American right now a country that you know you grew up feeling like your was your own. You know felt like it didnt want you there anymore the way. Popo fun is reveled in china he campaigns against homophobia which is very widespread in his country. And. Write the words. And. We have the we have. The right the it is a little bit just. To show you. The the how you feel. What they. Thought the. Pope or fun came out himself when he was twenty four since then hes been a vocal energy. Beatie right activist raising awareness about what it means to be gay bisexual or transgender so people dont have to suffer the same way he did. So i grew up you know very small in china and my parents support superego conservative people. And the big six hundred for me was we had a very Little Information about our water. Doesnt mean to be k. So our member when i was in high school i went to a library. To try try to find some information and the book was still talking about how to change some separate nation. I saw i was so i was sick. That it was you know. Was he. Wasnt. Working with me. So so i can leave. To. Do things i still and some korean. Media. Would you because it was in the. Top of funds film purple rain bad features fathers of l. G. B. Teach children the experience helped them develop understanding and tolerance for their sons and daughters and redefine their own roles in their family. His films cant officially be screened in china but. Reached a wide audience on the internet but other films including mama rainbow simply vanished from cyberspace pople fan decided to sue and fight the issue in court my lawyer asked me if i wanted to make a lawsuit i sort of just a for a few minutes and i said yes but it was in the beginning because i think oh it wont be accepted by the current anyway so why not just do it i like your Performance Art in the beginning i i know very little about the legal system about the law so two weeks later i noticed that the case was a fight occurred then i feel the little bit scared although the court ruled in his favor saying the provider had deleted the film illegally it still hasnt reappeared on the internet homosexuality has been decriminalized and be classified as a mental disorder in china but its still considered an acceptable in society actually in china into south and while homosexuality already being removed from being a mental disease but unfortunately a lot of hospital and clinics there are still doing commercials r. P. Which is the socalled to cure the cape and often paris taking their children to those kind of places and. When the sorry piece gave paris some hope and then is in there also despondent and is right home for to the house. Mohammed had always taking pictures hes a cinematographer from iran. A man of but she even as a child i was fascinated by images i was mesmerized by movie images that you pass over people dont get to feel going to die. This. Year. That if you. Home was mostly rainy and documentaries are set in the center of society this shot with handheld cameras on fire as weve been with us this a for them superman nor was it i dont ive been doing this for about twelve or thirteen years even if that may seem hard to believe that it was a hotel im not here the only fame if you dont want to be redressed finbar who can star on the screen this is a documentary about a children correctional and Rehabilitation Center for teenage girls in it they talk about why they were incarcerated many turned to crime after being abused. Cycle you made some additional ruben what are we trying to gain their trust as people not just filmmakers have a president thank you more they realized that we were really listening to them and taking them seriously so i would have fun with that they could speak openly about a book when i was in the beginning that we didnt even bring the camera in with us i couldnt buy the muster morpheme this is into it im talking today to modernize my sadness. Show my Better Change s. S. O. Shot. Question. Jitters she said padraic about what and how much they can love but i was. A long way from it is a. Shock to. You it doesnt mean hes young but we kept. His chin. More than. Your them yet i still remember the nightmares i had while making the film they told me from my sleep in the night you know. About but when we were on the set i tried to create a world in a distance between me and what was going on in front of the camera i wanted to follow your lead so that my emotions and feelings wouldnt influence the work so sore thumb. Without the film captures the feeling of being trapped and lost its received Great International critical acclaim also for the respectful way the camera approaches the sensitive subject matter the rainy and censors didnt ban the film deciding it might serve as a deterrent for other young girls. Mohamed worked with irans most celebrated documentary filmmaker on starla streams but he also works on fiction films such as the poetic short survival. Its a film with no clear plot full of allusions an experimental film with a message no regime lasts forever hierarchies change is a metaphor for political structures in iran. Theres a limit to creative freedom in iran a lot is possible but not everything how does mohamed d. D. L. With censorship. Restrictions encourage you to find other ways to express yourself. It is a joke creativity that even if we might not have all the opportunities and possibilities in order coffee we still try to come up with ideas for how to bring our message across how to tell our stories with any but this somewhat how difficult. Part is where as injured himself and that is. Yes maybe it is sometimes hard to make films in iran. But our society is so rich in stories that arent to boo and those are the ones we should be telling. The divided city of jerusalem. This is where palestinian filmmaker. Lives. I come from a village thats. A couple of kilometers that way but its a far far and this story see this israeli bank now this used to be my grandfathers butchery he was a butcher this was my grandfathers store and now its an israeli bank until nine hundred forty eight the year israel was founded this part of jerusalem was populated mainly by arabs when the city was divided the arab population was displaced many lost their homes land and property the consequences and ongoing tensions are still palpable in everyday life we have Production Companies in bethlehem on the other side of the border in the west bank he has to cross the checkpoint at least twice a day. There is another observing thats as in arabic it has several billion to mail which means thats. The hardest conditions or the toughest circumstances or the sad the circumstances make you laugh sometimes and i think one of the points we wanted to get across to the audiences hopefully when there was a love fest another entanglement is that people get this feeling of i want to laugh and i want to cry at the same time sometimes you laugh at your own misery to be able. Not necessary to make sense of things but at least to live past it and not fall. Do you believe in peace. The film is a wild comedy of errors a Palestinian Cathy gets into trouble when he steals the wrong car. But. He finds an israeli soldier in the trunk kidnapped by Palestinian Militants a part of this was what i call you. Its a disastrous situation. Where are they going to do it was that you know what it. Was. The people on the bridge but even the police here. I mean nobody knew about you what with doing. The film premiered at the barely nine twenty fifteen a comedy with a clear message against violence. It was partly shot in this refugee camp not far from bethlehem generations of palestinians have lived here since one nine hundred forty eight when israel evicted whole villages or you. Know. When we were shooting scenes with with the militias the militia scenes in the area we had the machine guns from the person from these when were shooting some of the chase scenes in there you see we had to use toy guns because that area is under military control by the israelis and its the magic of cinema these things work. Do you believe in this. Book. This is very. Well yet is shooting his next film the. Ports ansara and salema in jerusalem hes currently scouting for locations some complex like this thats what were looking for. I have to come back and talk to the owners. Of the new film is a political thriller about a palestinian and an israeli who have an affair cheating on their respective spouses with drastic results. Because it happens here in the divided city of jerusalem you have this political consequences and crazy radical twists in the story that wouldnt happen anywhere else in the world. It will be said largely in silwan one of the poorest and most conflict ridden parts of East Jerusalem more and more jewish settlers are moving here conflicts with the palestinians whove lived here for generations are on the rise. You had shows us a place hes particularly attached to an olive grove where his grandmothers house once stood she would tell the family stories about the past. I member when i was around four or five years old my sister bought the first video camera and i remember going to my grandmothers house which she lost in the one nine hundred forty eight war and she was forced to leave i think that. These v. H. S. Tapes that we had and the reaction of my family to these home videos and how important it was to them when we used to go back home and watch them and show them to other people in the family and in the village. Got me to realize very early on how important the images and how important oral storytelling is yes. Telling stories despite the obstacles these young talented filmmakers refused to back down in chinese we have all to say george show me all the local how would that mean so a new old boy ox is not afraid of the tiger. There is also you do a show where your you have to have period nerd to survive a little bit. We dont move forward as a society unless we take those risks. To something ive got this far and im going to continue im not giving up i mean. If you want it more than anything else i think its worth it than you think you should go for it. Because that is where they start to divide the country who needs to feel where they start to divide the language your blood flow for cause the collapse of the soviet union left its constituent nations on their own how strong is the legacy of soviet rule today the reemergence of russia part three of our series moscows empire. In fifteen minutes d w. They know much like they know what we think. And soon theyll even know how we feel. Im not a real person im still just a. Scientist around the world are working to measure our emotions. So hopefully i can be helpful piece of software. The virtual person as a therapist or a robot as a teacher neither would have human empathy. What does a machine need to do to create empathy and a medical context when i disclose more information to a person or to computer in this case. The rhythms phone stead of feelings measuring emotion starting december sixteenth t w. Theyre black and living in germany. Shes reminded what that means on a daily basis presenter john up like this not being able to blend in and i was. Taking a Holiday Group and being you know different than the rest. She travelled across germany to meet other black people and to hear their stories. It seemed as. I grew up in a white family in a white neighborhood it was definitely a challenge. She decided to put me up for adoption. So the main thing was to keep your head down and your mouth shut of course of the face like this i could never completely disappear if you see all these stereotypes about africa its good to see you. Do something for your country but youre still the black young. Afro germany starting december tenth d. W. This is d w news live from berlin the far right ones a power struggle with germanys alternative for Germany Party delegates vote for a new hard line leadership either congress and the