Was bleibt – Journalistinnen in Krisenregionen

The documentary provides an insight into the everyday journalistic life of three women who are confronted with patriarchal structures, dictatorial regimes and terrorist organisations.

Images of destroyed houses, crying women and children, injured soldiers - we are confronted with such scenes every day, sometimes overwhelmed. Things seem to be boiling all over the world. The horror news of our time reaches our screens, the newspapers and television. But who is actually delivering this news? And how do these people deal with it?

This film follows three female journalists as they work in crisis regions. India/Afghanistan, Belarus/Ukraine, Uganda/Congo - these are the countries from which these women report. They have to deal with patriarchal structures, dictators and terrorist organisations. They constantly oscillate between exceptional situations and their private lives. The film poses the question of how the three of them manage to deal with what they experience in their work. To what extent the boundaries between profession and vocation become blurred and there is no respite. And to what extent the fact that they are women plays a role in their reports.