I find the Cinema of Disobedience a relevant and urgent collective in the political and cultural landscape of 2025.
As fascism rises once again around the world, art becomes an increasingly crucial element in society for self-reflection and sanity checks.
Cinema is a storytelling medium that taps deeply into people’s emotions and subconscious. It is no surprise that fascist regimes attempt to control it, use it for propaganda, and suppress its freedom and critical role in society.
Targeting marginalized groups and labeling them as the enemy within, as is currently happening to queer people in neo-fascist countries, is a call to arms for artists and filmmakers. We must use our tools and talents to break through oppressive walls and reach audiences with the truth of human kindness and compassion.
As fascism creeps into our industry, we must remain vigilant and resist submitting to its destructive values and lethal market mechanisms.
I find hope in the Cinema of Disobedience to act as a lighthouse for artists and filmmakers around the world, shining light on urgent films that struggle to find an audience in the tumultuous sea of intellectual numbness imposed on us by the fascist pirates who have freebooted our freedom and pride.
Amir Ovadia Steklov
Berlin, 2025