In Sweden, hundreds of traumatised refugee children fall into a coma-like state, suffering from the so-called The Resignation Syndrome. The Swedish documentary “Life Overtakes Me” by two-time Oscar-nominated filmmakers John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson describes this phenomenon, which was first observed in the early 2000s. Paediatrician and professor Dr Henry Ascher fr om the University […]

Since the beginning of his career, Danish director Simon Lereng Wilmont has been dealing with the difficult lives of adolescents who actually lead an extremely secure life, but whose situation is temporarily thrown out of balance by external circumstances. But his films are also about children who cannot follow a normal path of development because […]

There are always stories that sound almost unbelievable from today’s perspective. One of them is about two little boys from Boston who desperately wanted to see the great 1967 World’s Fair in Montreal. They simply hitched their Shetland pony to a wagon and marched almost 400 kilometres alone to Canada. US director Eric Stange made […]

When wars break out, women are particularly affected by violence, poverty and flight. Moreover, in crisis regions, gender-specific norms often limit their access to education and economic resources, which excludes them from decision-making processes. The organisation Women for Women International has so far supported more than half a million women in raising their voices, using […]

Mary L. Gray is an American anthropologist and author who teaches at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Boston and is a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research. In 2020, she received the MacArthur Genius Grant in recognition of her research examining how work, identity, and human rights are […]