German Premiere · iHUMAN & Director Q&A

Thursday 24 September, 19:00 - 22:00

at BUFA-Studios, Oberlandstraße 26-35, 12099 Berlin

Pre-event to the DATA CITIES: Smart Technologies, Tracking & Human Rights conference

Seats reservation (limited seats): pretix.eu/disruptionlab/ihuman/

In cooperation with the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin we present the German premiere of the film iHuman by Norwegian director Tonje Hessen Schei.

iHUMAN (NO, 2019, 1h 35m, with English subtitles).

Programme

  • 19:00 - INTRODUCTION
    with Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab) & Anna Ramskogler-Witt (Artistic Director, Human Rights Film Festival Berlin).

  • 19:10 - 20:45: FILM SCREENING iHUMAN

  • 20:45 - 22:00: Q&A with Tonje Hessen Schei (Film Director, Producer, and Screenwriter, NO)

A screening by Disruption Network Lab & Human Rights Film Festival Berlin


iHUMAN | A film by Tonje Hessen Schei

(NO, 2019, 95m, with Eng. subtitles)

iHuman is a political thriller about artificial intelligence, power and social control. From the inside of the booming AI industry this film shows how the most powerful and far-reaching technology of our time is changing our lives, our society and our future.

iHuman follows pioneers at the frontline of the invisible AI revolution to see how this technology is developed and implemented. Through some of the brightest minds in the AI industry iHuman draws the roadmap to where we are going. Who punches in what codes for our future? How does AI impact who we are?

Tonje Hessen Schei
Film Director, Producer & Screenwriter, NO

Tonje Hessen Schei is an award-winning Norwegian independent filmmaker, whose work focuses on human rights, abuse of power and our changing relationship to technology. Her directing credits include iHuman (2019), Drone (2014), Play Again (2010) and Independent Intervention (2005). Tonje has received international awards including Most Valuable Docu-mentary of the Year at Cinema for Peace, the Golden Nymph, and the Norwegian equivalent Oscar and Emmy for Best Documentary. Her films have screened globally, at the UN and EU, Netflix and major film festivals worldwide.

Credits
Director: Tonje Hessen Schei
Producer: Jonathan Borge Lie
Editor: Torkel Gjørv
DOP: Henrik Bohn Ipsen
Animation: Rebel Unit
Sound Design: Sølve Huse-Amundsen
Music: Olav Øyehaug

The film screening is followed by Q&A with the director Tonje Hessen Schei.

Part of:
Disruption Network Lab conference DATA CITIES: Smart Technologies, Tracking & Human Rights September 25-27, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
www.disruptionlab.org/data-cities

Human Rights Film Festival Berlin
September 30-October 10, 2020
https://www.humanrightsfilmfestivalberlin.de/en