How do you deal with threats of imprisonment for drawing a cartoon of the president? What does it mean if you are thrown out of your country for singing a song? How does it feel to be condemned for denying the existence of the Holocaust? An Independent Mind explores one of the most important and controversial human rights: freedom of speech.Through testimonies from eight people who have experienced problems as a result of expressing their personal opinions, filmmaker Rex Bloomstein explores the limits of freedom of expression. It is not always easy to to find out where these are. Obviously, it is not difficult to empathise with Reggae singer Tiken Jah Kakoly, who was forced to flee his native Ivory Coast, or with the Algerian cartoonist Ali Dilem, who was condemned to nine years in jail. But does the same apply to Holocaust denier David Irving or the Basque rock group Soziedad Alkoholika that ridicules victims of ETA violence?
The story of The Satanic Temple, a controversial movement that combines religion and activism with t...
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“Silenced” is a film about the state of free speech in America.
Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno...
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...
Florida, 1994. Artist Mike Diana is convicted on an obscenity charge in the wake of an undercover po...
Can we really be fully human without Free Speech? Is free speech the oxygen of our society? Without ...
This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America
Tommy Robinson goes on the offensive by documenting how his own “hit piece” on his character was bei...
An account of the many tribulations that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, known for his subversive art and ...
An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...
OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli militar...
The documentary about the history and struggle for Press Freedom of Mosquito Press during the dark d...
Doaa el-Adl, the first woman to be awarded the esteemed Journalistic Distinction in Caricature, serv...
In the realm of contemporary music, Adam “Nergal” Darski surely needs no further introduction. Yet t...
More Dangerous Songs: And the Banned Played On features previously banned songs by the BBC including...
The life story of Vicente Miguel Carceller (1890-1940), a Spanish editor committed to freedom who, t...
Belgrade, 2022: A photojournalist is threatened by right-wing extremist groups in her Serbian home a...
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the Stasi secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and hi...
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social...