We need your support!

• Who are we?

We are an independent group of students at the Freie Universität Berlin and are currently working on our documentary Protest under Pressure. We intend to release it mid-September 2025.

• What is the documentary about?

We aim at exposing how people speaking up for a free Palestine are being silenced by police repression, mediatic smear campaigns and how the university is involved in those attacks on the freedom of speech. With this film, we want to show how a climate of fear is being instilled and institutionalized in Germany and is corroding fundamental rights. Also, we want to highlight the role and complicity of the media in the shutdown of protests and the manipulation of public opinion, framing protesters as criminals and justifying their brutalization. In order to do this, we use original footage, several interviews of professors, witnesses, and activists as well as research and our own video material.

• Why should you support us?

In a context of escalating state violence and repression, it is more than ever crucial to support independent projects and investigations. This documentary is meant not only for people standing up for human rights, but also for those concerned for freedom of speech. Right now, we are witnessing an unprecedented assault on freedom of speech in the US and are afraid that Germany follows a similar path. We consider what is happening around the Palestine movement as something that concerns everyone. Unfortunately, we have no budget and have made all the way until now with equipment borrowed from friends. But this has come to its limits as we are entering the editing phase. As we are aware of our responsibility of producing qualitative content that honors the trust of the people working with us, we are reaching out to ask for your support. We receive no institutional funding and are therefore depending on your contribution!

• What will we use the money for?

We would like to edit the film properly and would therefore need to either buy editing software or rent a place. As you can imagine, this is far from being cheap! Also, we want to print posters, which will also add to the costs.

We would be grateful if you could donate, even a small amount. Every donation makes a difference! If you have advice or have yourself an editing place, this would also help us tremendously:)

Noa, Nora and Elena for Protest under Pressure