
Events 2025

Una Banda de Chicas with DJ set and film talk
A Girl’s Band (Una Banda de Chicas) was screened at NIHRFF in 2019 and was an absolute festival favorite. We are delighted that Casablanca and the Frida Radikalo collective are now showing the film again in Nuremberg. Admission is free!
December 4, 2025
7 pm, Brosamerie, DJ Set and drinks with frida radikalo
8:30 pm, start of film, after the screening there will be a Q&A with director Marlinia Giménez and Andrea Kuhn

Special Screening: SOULEYMANE’S STORY
Winner of the Open Eyes Youth Jury Award 2025
SOULEYMANE’S STORY FR 2024, 93 min, French, Fulani, Maninka with German subtitels, directed by: Boris Lojkine
Thursday, 27.11.2025, 6 pm, at LUISE – Raum für Jugendkultur
free admission

Behzad Karim Khani and Simone Atangana Bekono in conversation about anger
Reading in English as part of texttage.nuernberg
Friday, July 11 2025, 8 pm at Katharinenruine
Host: Andrea Kuhn

Film Tip: Moria Six
Film screening with director Jennifer Mallmann on Tuesday, 27.5.2025, 7 pm at Filmhaus Nürnberg
In September 2020, six refugees are sentenced in a questionable trial for the burning of the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos. The director begins a correspondence with Hassan, one of these refugees, and shows the mechanisms of European compartmentalisation in silent, precisely framed images.

Film Tip: Seven Days
Preview und film talk with director Ali Samadi Ahadi and actress Vishka Asayesh on Wednesday, 7.5.2025
Ali Samadi Ahadi’s gripping drama about an Iranian human rights activist, based on a screenplay by Mohammad Rasoulof, tells a highly topical and intense story about the price of freedom, the courage to resist and the power of family.

Panel Discussion: Amt 44 – Talk: Kunst darf alles (außer das!)
Kickoff of the event series at schauspiel erlangen on Wednesday, 7.5.2025 7 pm
Where does artistic freedom end – and who defines the boundaries? Discussion with Viktoria Großmann (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Franz Heinz (lawyer for criminal law), Andrea Kuhn (Director NIHRFF), Malte Lin-Kröger (Deputy Director Kunstpalais Erlangen), Fabian Zolar (street artist), Moderation: Matthias Köhler

Film Tip: WHAT A FEELING
Austria 2024, 110 min., German, directed by: Kat Rohrer
To get in the mood for Lesbian Visibility Week, Casablanca is showing the warm-hearted lesbian rom-com WHAT A FEELING. This will be followed by an audience discussion with director Kat Rohrer, moderated by Andrea Kuhn.
Sat., 12.4.2025, 7 pm at Casablanca Nürnberg
with: Kat Rohrer (director), Moderator: Andrea Kuhn (NIHRFF)

Film Tip: SOULS UNSHACKLED
Germany/Iran 2024, 95 min., German, Persion with German subtitles, directed by: Roxana Samadi
SOULS UNSHACKLED shows the tireless struggle of Iranian women in exile for the feminist revolution in Iran (2022-2023) with the aim of helping their homeland to freedom from the diaspora. And makes it clear how important the struggle of each and every individual is for a world that thinks and acts freely.
Wed., 16.4.2025, 8pm at Filmhaus Nürnberg
Film Talk with Roxana Samadi (Director), Moderator: Andrea Kuhn (NIHRFF)

Panel Discussion at TRIGGER Theater Festival
Friday, 21.2.2025, 6 pm at Z-Bau
Panel Discussion with Katharina Fritsch (Head of Corporate Communications, Community & Membership 1.FCN, 2nd Chairwoman Alliance against Right-Wing Extremism), Andrea Kuhn (Director of Nuremberg Human Rights Film Festival), Sarah Lohr (Z-Bau, Akne Kid Joe), Margret Bernreuther (Radio Z), Viola Karaalioğlu (Inter-Kultur-Büro Stadt Nürnberg)
Host: Dr. Alexander Schmidt (Historian, Nürnberg)

Film Tip: FROM GROUND ZERO
On February 20, 2025 at 6:30 pm at Filmhaus Nürnberg, we will be showing the official Palestinian entry for the 2025 Oscars: FROM GROUND ZERO. The screening will be followed by a discussion with producer Rashid Masharawi and Irit Neidhardt (mec film).
In collaboration with Filmhaus Nürnberg and medico international.

