Anita Mathal Hopland

A personal family epic, where Danish-Pakistani director Anita Mathal Hopland looks back at the history of her two families over 15 years in Karachi and Copenhagen.

Sigurdur Thordarson, known as Siggi, becomes a hacker at 12, exposing Icelandic bank corruption at 14. Branded the "teenage whistleblower," he joins WikiLeaks in 2010, mentored by Julian Assange. Siggi leaks globally, but clashes with Assange, prompting him to spy for the FBI at 18. This tale weaves paranoia, hacking, and friendship, portraying Siggi's turbulent journey from trust to betrayal, revealing a heart-wrenching coming-of-age narrative.

With hours of footage captured by Ukrainian filmmakers a collaboration to tell their story was initiated. This is the story about civilians facing death during wartime. And with a conversation between a son in Berlin and his parents still in Kyiv, the film portrayed the dilemma of how to survive the distance to war without loosing hope - for those who stayed, those who left and those who never returned.

Through urban exploring, anti authoritarian young Russians and Ukrainians have found a way to take control over their own lives, by confronting fear and sharing their death defying stunts with millions of viewers online. But the realities of the conflict-ridden post-Soviet era - and the fragility of life - don't go away just because you are 300 feet up above the city or 100 feet below. ON THE EDGE OF FREEDOM portrays the riveting everyday lives of Angela and Vlad; a roofer from Moscow and a pioneer digger from Kiev, offering a unique insight to the ever-growing phenomenon.