News HUMAN 2026 will be March 2 – 8HUMAN 2026 will be 2.- 8. March 2026 LES MERThank you for this year’s festival!This is custom heading element The HUMAN staff is proud of this year's festival – which set an audience record! The festival is over, and we would like to thank you for a fantastic festival week. We are very happy to announce that we have set a new audience record for the festival! Thank you [...]LES MERThis year’s award winners are announcedThis is custom heading element The juries have spoken: Here are the year's best Norwegian documentary and human rights documentary. Saturday evening was extra festive at the HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival as this year's awards were presented. The festival has two competition programs: one for new Norwegian documentaries competing for the HUMAN award, and [...]LES MERWin tickets for HUMAN 2026!This is custom heading element Take HUMAN's audience survey and enter the draw for tickets to next year's festival. Do you have anything from this year's festival that you would like to share with us? Was there anything you were particularly excited about? Is there anything we could do differently? Help us make the festival [...]LES MEREnjoy this year’s festival dealsThis is custom heading element Here are the bars and restaurants where you as a audience at HUMAN can get extra good prices. During the festival you can enjoy great food and drink offers at selected locations around the city. Here is an overview of the festival's partners and the benefits you can get as [...]LES MERHappy International Women’s Day!Happy International Women's Day! Continue the fight for women's rights with these documentaries next week. This Saturday is March 8th. We wish everyone a good day for the fight for women's rights! The fight is not over in one day. This is confirmed by the films from this year's festival program. Below is a list [...]LES MERThese are the juries of HUMAN 2025This is custom heading element Festivalen er rett rundt hjørnet, og disse menneskene gjør seg klare til å vurdere våre konkurranseprogram. Monday is kicks off! While we at HUMAN are eagerly waiting for the festival to finally begin, we can announce some very special guests: our juries. Our festival has two competition programs, one for [...]LES MERHave you checked out these screenings?This is custom heading element Come for breakfast, lunch or bring the baby! Here are the slightly different screenings HUMAN 2025 offers. During the festival days between 10-16 March, we will be arranging, in collaboration with various cinemas, breakfast screenings, matinee screenings and baby cinema. Some explanations: Breakfast screenings are exactly what they sound like. [...]LES MERA little feel-good in the winter (and world) darkness?This is custom heading element Here are films we have on the program that you can just come and enjoy. Find the light at HUMAN! In addition to our human rights program and focus on current social issues, we also have a soft and pleasant list of feel-good films that show warm and delightful human [...]LES MERWelcome to Mini-HUMAN!This is custom heading element HUMAN and Cinemateket invites everyone to Mini-HUMAN family day at Cinemateket, Sunday March 16th. We'll show documentaries for children of all ages, and offer activities and a fun festival atmosphere for the whole family! Lemongrass, which is the house café and restaurant, provides hot chocolate and waffles at pleasant prices. [...]LES MERFull program release and ticket sales!This is custom heading element The day is finally here when we can release the entire program for HUMAN 2025! Troughout the year we work to find the best, most exciting, surprising, important and entertaining documentaries from around the world. This year we have a large batch of films straight from the Sundance and Berlinale [...]LES MERCurrent documentaries compete for the human rights prizeThis is custom heading element From indigenous rights in Canada to journalists risking their lives in Gaza to disability rights in the United States. This is our human rights program. Each year, we select what we believe are the best documentary films on current human rights issues to be part of our international competition program, [...]LES MEROpening film: “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”, and festival pass!This is custom heading element We can finally announce which film will open this year's festival and that you can buy festival passes! The sun is shining and the streets are becoming less slippery, which is a sign that it is almost time to celebrate amazing documentary films. The HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival 2025 [...]LES MERModern Love in China: The Dating GameThis is custom heading element A new documentary, which recently premiered at Sundance, is coming to our festival in March. China’s one-child policy created a massive gender imbalance in the country. The result? Millions of men struggling to find a partner in a ruthless dating landscape. We meet three such men in “The Dating Game,” [...]LES MERThese festival films are Oscar nominated!Fire Oscar-nominerte filmer til HUMAN! LES MERA Tribute to David Lynch: Film and ConversationI samarbeid med Vega Scene vil vi hedre den store filmkunstneren David Lynch med en rykende fersk dokumentar og samtale om hans innovative og omfattende kunstnerskap. LES MERFilm release: mistress hunt, theater rebellion and jazzy colonial historyThis is custom heading element HUMAN can finally reveal the first films coming to the festival in 2025. It may be hard to believe now, but after the hustle and bustle of Christmas and dark and long winter months, a new spring will arrive. And with it the perhaps most important and noteworthy event of [...]LES MERVolunteer Registration is OpenThe volunteer registration is open! Join us in making our festival March 10-16 2025 LES MERWinning films of HUMAN 2024This is custom heading element Out of a total of twenty films in the competition programmes, four were singled out as the best. Tonight we invited the filmmakers and actors to attend this year's award ceremony. Here, the jury members presented their reasons for choosing the winning film, in addition to highlighting an honorable mention. [...]LES MERThese 10 films will compete for the Human prize of 2024This is custom heading element Sundance-filmer, IDFA-vinner og norgespremierer; det norske konkurranseprogrammet er klart! Så langt har vi sluppet ni titler fra festivalprogrammet vårt, og i dag skal vi doble antallet. Det er nemlig dags for å annonsere hvilke ti dokumentarer som skal konkurrere om årets HUMAN-pris. Dette konkurranseprogrammet består av nye, norske dokumentarer som [...]LES MERHUMAN Stands in Solidarity with PalestineHelp the civilian population in Gaza now. LES MERFestival Catalogue 2023Browse the festival catalogue for the 2023 edition of HUMAN here. LES MERHUMAN IDFF stands in solidarity with colleagues in UkraineAs a festival founded on the promotion and respect for human rights, HUMAN is appalled by the recent unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces. LES MERExtra screening of For Sama sunday nightThe tickets for both screenings of the Oscar nominated For Sama sold out in a flash, so we have programmed an extra screening sunday 21:00 på vega scene – sal 3. LES MERFirst films of HUMAN 2020 – Syria, Chinese puppet theatre and antibiotic resistanceWe proudly present the first six documentary films of HUMAN international documentary film festival 2020! LES MERÅpningskvelden utsolgt- satt opp ekstravisninger av The Panama PapersÅpningsarrangementet i kino EN og TO med visning av thrilleren The Panama Papers er utsolgt, men vi har satt opp en parallell visning i kino TRE. LES MERTake a look at our Program MagazineFlip through the program magazine, and be inspired to attende some of the 40 films or 40 live events: debates, worksjops, art exhibitions, concerts, theatre plays and a carnival parade. LES MERHUMAN + By:LarmBy:Larm og HUMAN internasjonale dokumentarfilmfestival inngår samarbeid. Er du interessert i både film og musikk? Vi lar deg oppleve begge! LES MERProgramslipp: Det norske konkurranseprogrammetElleve sterke norske dokumentarfilmer skal konkurrere om HUMAN-prisen og 50 000 kroner. LES MERThe Most Eventful Christmas Gift of the Year!Last minute Christmas gift shopping, you say? No worries! You can give your friends and loved ones seven days of great and inspiring festival screenings and debates! LES MERMøt årets forhåndsjury!Her er medlemmene av årets filmfaglige sterke forhåndsjury, som skal nominere inntil 10 filmer til det norske konkurranseprogrammet. LES MER
