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.

Cinematograph

To Close Your Eyes and See Fire

New Uncertainty in Lebanon

Film

On 4 August 2020, more than 200 people were killed as a result of a devastating explosion in the port of the Lebanese capital Beirut. The city is smashed to smithereens. After such an event, where do you find the conviction that better days will come? The directing duo Nicola von Leffern and Jakob Carl Sauer followed several survivors and their families for three years: a telephone operator working for the city’s helpline; a Syrian family living in an underground garage and planning to flee the country; and a dancer and a painter who try and process their fate through art. The film “represents a portrait of collective trauma, composed of fragments”, captured during the “historic economic crisis Lebanon has slid into in 2019, which still grips the country today.” (Diagonale 2025)

Directed by: Nicola von Leffern, Jakob Carl Sauer
Austria 2024, 98 min, OV with German subtitles

Film discussion with
Nicola von Leffern
Freelance Director and Filmmaker

Hosted by
Priska Wörl
Freelance journalist, host, Innsbruck

Admission: €8; free admission for children and students

Admission

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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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