INPUT / … / … / The Invisibles. How to visualise those who cannot give witness (anymore)

Sometimes a story is so important that it just needs to be told, but the main protagonists are no longer alive. In other cases, they are alive but their stories remain untold. In this session we show how filmmakers resort to creative ways to fill those gaps. They use different approaches to tell their society’s history which should not be forgotten or even repeated. How did they develop their ideas of giving the invisibles a voice or how to tell their invisible stories? Respect for diversity, promoting tolerance, challenging structural violence, … - whichever aim is pursued, all films draw particular attention to problems which have been silenced in their societies, both in the past or the present day. Public service media’s responsibility is to shine a light into that darkness that swallowed people up and made their stories invisible. Are these different ways and methods successful and engaging to reach their target groups?