Philippe Borrel

87 min | 2021 | France/Switzerland/India/US | Boston Premiere

Hacking for the Commons introduces us to those who, from India to the United States via Europe, are experimenting with the emancipation tools of "free software" in order to bring concrete solutions in a multitude of fields in which collective practices known as ‘open’ - thus ‘non-proprietary’ - are spreading in agriculture, medicines and in education.
You will hear from Richard Stallman, founder of The Free Software Foundation, a non-profit org founded in 1985 to support the free software movement which promotes the universal freedom to study, distribute, create and modify computer software with a preference for software being distributed under copyleft or share alike terms. The FSF was incorporated in Boston, MA where it is based and continues its work on legal and structural issues on behalf of the international movement and community.  

Official Selections: FIDH 2019 Geneva, Festival Cinéma et Droits de l’Homme France, Festival du Film Vert Geneva, Festival Int’l du film des Droits de l’Homme Tunisia, Terra Festival Guadeloupe, SQL19 Semaine Québécoise de l’Informatique Libre Montreal, Sustainable Living Film Festival Turkey.

CONTROL

Omer Peleg

3 min | 2021 | Israel | US Premiere

A shy programmer receives the power to decide punishment for others.