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

Sentenced, Detained, Exiled:

Nobel Peace Laureate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus

Conversation

The human-rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, founder of the human-rights organisation Wjasna, has been one of the leading voices in the fight for democracy and the liberation of political prisoners in Belarus. Shortly after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, he was sentenced to ten years in prison. In December 2025, he and more than one hundred other political prisoners were liberated. Today, he lives in exile.

The conversation will be accompanied by excerpts from the new documentary film “Bialiatski | Unbroken”(2026) by Belarusian journalist Alexandrina Glagoljewa, which traces the Nobel Peace Laureate’s journey and the long struggle for human rights in Belarus.

Ales Bialiatski
Nobel Peace Prize 2022, Founder and Director of the human rights organisation Wjasna, Belarus, in exile in Oslo

Alexandrina Glagoljewa
Belarusian Journalist and Screenwriter, in exile in Vilnius

Moderator
Tigran Petrosyan
Journalist for German media outlets such as taz, ZEIT Online and others; head of Eastern Europe projects at the taz Panter Foundation

German and Russian with simultaneous interpretation

Free admission

In collaboration with taz Panter Foundation and with the aid of ERSTE Foundation

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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.

Info

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