Program

For three days, journalists will meet other knowledgeable mediators of information from different regions of the world in Innsbruck. In conversations with colleagues and other experts, visitors find out what is going on behind the scenes of the information on international events, which is often hastily and superficially conveyed, and can contribute.

Current social, political and cultural developments are the focus of the debates, from book presentations, exhibitions, doc-films and audio features. The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

Treibhaus, Tower

Escape for a Goal

Two Afghan Footballers Fleeing the Taliban

Film

Maryam and Zaynab Mehrzad are sisters and footballers from the city of Herat in Afghanistan. For many years, they played for the city’s women’s football team. Following the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, they decided to leave their home country. After a dangerous drive from Herat to the capital Kabul, only Maryam manages to get on board the last extraordinary flight to Italy; Zaynab and her newborn daughter Helal are left behind in Kabul. The movie Escape for a Goal traces the journey of both sisters in Afghanistan and Europe.

Directed by: Stefano Liberti and Mario Poeta
Italy 2025, 62 min, OV with English subtitles

Post-screening discussion with
Maryam Mehrzad
Footballer, Afghanistan/Italy

Zaynab Mehrzad
Footballer, Afghanistan/Germany

Stefano Liberti
Journalist and filmmaker, Rome

Farsi, Italienisch und Deutsch mit Simultanübersetzung

Free admission

With support from the Italian Culture Institute, Vienna

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Die Mitwirkenden

Wir freuen uns auf Journalist*innen, Wissenschaftler*innen und NGOs aus verschiedenen Regionen der Welt.

Die Schauplätze

Die Veranstaltungsorte des Festivals liegen im Zentrum von Innsbruck. Sie sind zu Fuß gut zu erreichen.

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