Open Citadel

09/08/2020

Tune in for a q&a with The Lesson’s director Elena Horn at 11 am EST (4 pm BST) ahead of the film premiere. The q&a can be accessed for free at Rhode Island International Film Festival

Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, ranked as one of the top 10 U.S. festivals

09/08/2020

Today our film The Lesson premieres at
FLICKERS' Rhode Island International Film Festival! It goes live at 5:30 pm EST (10:30 pm BST) and can be accessed here: https://prog.tsharp.xyz/en/riiff/38/film/5887/The-Lesson

Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, ranked as one of the top 10 U.S. festivals

30/04/2020

🎞Our director Elena Horn gives us an ambulance volunteer's perspective in her new documentary 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧.

✨Check it out and tune in for her talk on filmmaking in a pandemic with Gemma Bradshaw of One World Media.

Thu, 30 April 2020 | 5pm BST

29/02/2020

Congratulations to Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince! 🎊

29/02/2020

26/02/2020

Screening tonight for our short documentary, Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince!

Can you guess in which country?
Check out below 👇🏻

Our Directors Elena Horn and Alessandro Leonardi are already in the beautiful town of Ioánnina in Greece.

Tonight at 8:30 PM our film, Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince is screening at the Ioánnina Arts Centre! 🎉

13/02/2020

We are very proud of our film, Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince and cannot wait to have our next festival screening at the prestigious kontrast - Das Bayreuther Filmfest.

📽Are you looking forward to our next screening on 29 February at the kontrast - Das Bayreuther Filmfest?

11/02/2020

Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince Türkei | 2019 | 10 Minuten | Dokumentation | Englisch/Arabisch u. a., engl. UT | Regie: Elena Horn, Alessandro Leonardi Inhalt: Eine Gruppe internationaler Studierender wird mit verschiedenen Flüchtlingskindern aus Syrien zusammengebracht, um sich über ihre ...

04/02/2020

We are incredibly proud of Gesamtschule Fröndenberg as they participated in the Schule ohne Rassismus - Schule mit Courage Bundeskoordination - "School without racism" project to actively fight racism in their school.

As part of the ceremony receiving their award, they had the opportunity to watch our film Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince and talk to the Directors.

We truly hope that we can contribute to fighting racism among children and young people by taking our film to schools and young audiences.

The high school, Gesamtschule Fröndenberg participated in the Schule ohne Rassismus - Schule mit Courage Bundeskoordination - "School without racism" project to actively fight racism in their school. One of our Directors, Elena Horn is a partner in this project training the children in their critical analysis of the media.

On 27 January the school received their official certificate of “Schule ohne Rassismus. Schule mit Courage” - "School without racism. School with courage".

🎉We would like to send our warmest congratulations to the students who participated in the course!

We sincerely hope that they will become ambassadors of solidarity and anti-racism in their communities.

During the award ceremony, we screened Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince which truly moved the audience. We could see some tears blink in the audience’s eyes. The mayor of Fröndenberg and the headmaster of the school were also present at the ceremony, as well as Alessandro Leonardi, Co-Director of the film.

📸: Elena Horn, Co-Director of Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince

27/01/2020

"As the experience of the death camps begins to fade from living memory, there are signs that, in a period of resurgent nationalism and xenophobia, postwar taboos are losing some of their force and historical revisionism is being deployed to buttress senses of national self-esteem."

Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day and also the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

the victims of this great tragedy of human history with our film, The Lesson, which is a timely call for better education on the topic.

Editorial: The horrors of Auschwitz and other N**i death camps will soon be lost to living memory. But the recent rise in xenophobic nationalism underlines the need never to forget

24/01/2020

A surprisingly high percentage of French young adults are not familiar with the Holocaust. Our new film, The Lesson is a timely reminder.

The survey also found that 20% of young French respondents believe that anti-Semitic views are "acceptable"

22/01/2020

Are you following our new film The Lesson?

"Hatred only triumphs when courage has crumbled"

Thank you for the review Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein (UN Human Rights Chief 2014-2018).