Factual Programme and Literature

These factual programme performances are in English. More programme in Finnish

Coming Out - Sexual Minorities in Russia

  • FIN
  • RUS

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Interview
Does the tightening legislation threaten the human rights of sexual minorities in Russia? How has the life of homosexuals changed?

Condoms and Crackers for Health

  • DEN
  • FIN

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
Health and physical well-being are prerequisites of an active, high-quality life. Constant hunger is a bad companion.

Forced Labour Behind Pineapple Juice – What Has Changed?

  • FIN
  • GBR

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
Last winter, a research made by Finnwatch revealed forced labor in the production of private label products for Finnish food chains.

Human Rights and Environment in East and Southeast Asia

  • FIN
  • PHI
  • THA

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
Environmental issues and inequality lead to forced evictions and human rights violations in East and Southeast Asia.

Oksana Tshelysheva: They Followed Me in the Street

  • RUS

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Literature
News from the war front in Chechnya is becoming increasingly alarming, what with power-drunk FSB officers brandishing guns in trams...

People for Sale

  • UGA

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Interview
Journalist Johanna Korhonen interviews human trafficking specialist Merab Kambabu Kiremire.

Quo Vadis Myanmar?

  • FIN
  • MYA

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
Myanmar was under military dictatorship and remained one of the world's most isolated countries for a long time.

Rasna Warah & Lilly Korpiola: Democracy in Africa after Arab Spring

  • FIN
  • KEN

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
Rasna Warah is Kenyan journalist and researcher specialising on urbanisation and housing.

Rasna Warah: Missionaries, Mercenaries and Misfits

  • KEN

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Literature
Rasna Warah is Kenyan journalist and researcher specialising on urbanisation and housing.

Sivuvalo: If This Is Finnish Literature?

  • CAN
  • CMR
  • ESP
  • FIN
  • GER
  • MEX
  • PER
  • SWE
  • URU
  • USA

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
Sivuvalo presents writers who live in Finland but write in other languages than Finnish or Swedish.

The Day I Will Never Forget – A Helpers' Story

  • PHI

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Interview
How does it feel when a typhoon destroys your home, a flood ruins your crops or a mudslide wrecks your child's school?

Unquenchable Thirst! Water as a Human Right

  • FIN
  • USA

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
With the current trend more than 2.5 billion people will suffer from water shortages in 2025.

What Kind of a Market! Stop Human Trafficking!

  • FIN
  • GBR

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
Poverty is the key issue behind human trafficking. The majority of the victims of trafficking are women and one third of them come from South-East Asia.

Whose Human Rights?

  • FIN
  • INA
  • PHI

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
It is sometimes claimed that Asia has different values than those of the West, and that Western human rights do not apply, and cannot be demanded to apply.

World We Want: Sustainability and Equity Now!

  • DEN
  • FIN

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
In 2000, world leaders promised to halve extreme poverty by 2015 with a global plan called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Condoms and Crackers for Health

  • DEN
  • FIN

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
Health and physical well-being are prerequisites of an active, high-quality life. Constant hunger is a bad companion.

Don Johnson Big Band FeatFest Special

Music

  • Hip hop
One of the longest-standing and most successful Finnish hip hop groups, Don Johnson Big Band has been stretching genre boundaries since 2000.

Forced Labour Behind Pineapple Juice – What Has Changed?

  • FIN
  • GBR

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
Last winter, a research made by Finnwatch revealed forced labor in the production of private label products for Finnish food chains.

Human Rights and Environment in East and Southeast Asia

  • FIN
  • PHI
  • THA

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
Environmental issues and inequality lead to forced evictions and human rights violations in East and Southeast Asia.

Oksana Tshelysheva: They Followed Me in the Street

  • RUS

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Literature
News from the war front in Chechnya is becoming increasingly alarming, what with power-drunk FSB officers brandishing guns in trams...

People for Sale

  • UGA

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Interview
Journalist Johanna Korhonen interviews human trafficking specialist Merab Kambabu Kiremire.

Sivuvalo: If This Is Finnish Literature?

  • CAN
  • CMR
  • ESP
  • FIN
  • GER
  • MEX
  • PER
  • SWE
  • URU
  • USA

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
Sivuvalo presents writers who live in Finland but write in other languages than Finnish or Swedish.

The Cambodian Space Project

  • AUS
  • CAM
  • DEN
  • FRA
  • GBR

Music

  • Big beat
  • Pop
  • Psykedeelinen
The Cambodian Space Project plays and revives music from the golden years of Cambodian pop.

The Day I Will Never Forget – A Helpers' Story

  • PHI

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Interview
How does it feel when a typhoon destroys your home, a flood ruins your crops or a mudslide wrecks your child's school?

Unquenchable Thirst! Water as a Human Right

  • FIN
  • USA

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
With the current trend more than 2.5 billion people will suffer from water shortages in 2025.

World We Want: Sustainability and Equity Now!

  • DEN
  • FIN

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
In 2000, world leaders promised to halve extreme poverty by 2015 with a global plan called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Charmaine Clamor

  • PHI
  • USA

Music

  • Folk
  • Jazz
  • World Music
  • Soul
Charmaine Clamor has been called one of the century's most important and talented jazz singers.

Coming Out - Sexual Minorities in Russia

  • FIN
  • RUS

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Interview
Does the tightening legislation threaten the human rights of sexual minorities in Russia? How has the life of homosexuals changed?

Rasna Warah & Lilly Korpiola: Democracy in Africa after Arab Spring

  • FIN
  • KEN

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
Rasna Warah is Kenyan journalist and researcher specialising on urbanisation and housing.

Rasna Warah: Missionaries, Mercenaries and Misfits

  • KEN

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Literature
Rasna Warah is Kenyan journalist and researcher specialising on urbanisation and housing.

Sierra Maestra & Kuukumina

  • CUB
  • FIN

Music

  • Son Cubano
Swearing by the swing of the '20s and '30s, Sierra Maestra is the brightest star of Son Cubano, challenging modern Cuban music with a force of nine men.

Totoo Zebingwa & Sanaa Sana

  • TAN

Music

  • Afro
  • Blues
  • World Music
  • Rumba
Sanaa Sana is a breath-taking combination of passionate dance and drumbeats, dictated by a Tanzanian-Congolese undercurrent.

What Kind of a Market! Stop Human Trafficking!

  • FIN
  • GBR

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
Poverty is the key issue behind human trafficking. The majority of the victims of trafficking are women and one third of them come from South-East Asia.

Whose Human Rights?

  • FIN
  • INA
  • PHI

Factual Programme and Literature

  • Panel discussion
It is sometimes claimed that Asia has different values than those of the West, and that Western human rights do not apply, and cannot be demanded to apply.

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