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Outriders Festiwal is a storytelling event which through stories tells about the world.

Outriders have created a section of Interactive Journalism that combine the foundations of traditional reporting with visually compelling designs. We are a team of journalists, photojournalists, illustrators, designers and developers…

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Ten Outriders journalists in seven countries are checking the routes of migrants from several countries leading via Belarus to the European Union.

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Recently published

How I Left Afghanistan,

My Beloved Land, in a Little Suitcase

Afghan photographer Fatimah Hossaini, who has until now covered Afghanistan and Iran for Outriders, captured with her camera her last days in the country since the Taliban seized Kabul and…

Junkyard of the West

Every year millions of second-hand cars are exported from the USA, the EU, and Japan to West Africa and non-OECD countries in general. With them, rich nations "outsource" pollution, a…

A Journey with Kenya’s Shepherds Struggling Against Drought and Land Degradation

Faced by a complex intermarriage between land degradation and climate change, the Samburu of northern Kenya have to contend with rangelands that are increasingly unproductive and more frequent droughts.

With more than 12 million tons of broken equipment yearly, Europe ranks second only behind Asia in terms of electronic waste (e-waste). Circular economy initiatives across Europe aim to reduce…

Working on

10 Outriders journalists in seven countries are checking the routes of migrants from several countries leading via Belarus to the European Union.

Unblock is a new magazine about Ukraine, Belarus and Russia as well as other countries of the Eastern Bl… Well… Along with Brexit, an epoch describing the process „from East…

Afghanotes is the testimony of an Afghan journalist during the first days under the Taliban control. In a matter of weeks, as the United States began withdrawing its troops after…

End of coal mining

In 2022, our documentary about the end of coal mining will have its premiere. It is the first part of our climate initiative – POWER. We will show the end…

Climate postcard

Within the framework of the Paris Agreement, we seek solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to build resilience to adapt to the impacts of rising temperatures. Every two weeks…

Multimedia stories

Following the Turkish offensive, in October 2019 we started a diary from Rojava together with the Syrian journalist Massoud Hamid who for three months visited hospitals, funerals, cemeteries, prisons, schools,…

The COVID-19 arrived in Brazil through the upper class but has spread like wildfire throughout the poorest communities.

Rich in diversity and small in size, Sri Lanka lacks mechanisms to protect its natural treasures. The practice of using and commercially exploiting the biological resources and indigenous knowledge of…

The Iraqi army’s recent battle of Mosul was supposed to bring one result: free the city from the merciless grip of Daesh, whose caliphate had introduced fear and cruelty.

May 2019 marked the 10th anniversary of the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the government. Not all…

Even though it is a vaccine-preventable disease, measles kills over 100,000 people every year. Worldwide cases tripled in the first three months of 2019. Ten states accounted for approximately three-quarters…

It is a multimedia and interactive story presenting a train journey through Ukraine from west to east, from Uzhhorod to Lysychansk, from the perspective of the train, people, their stories…

24th - 27th June 2021

Outriders
Festiwal

Outriders Festiwal is a storytelling festival that brings the world closer to you – through stories. It explains particular phenomena. Shows scenarios for the future and enables you to take a closer look at what is happening now – locally and globally.