6th Human Rights Nights Film Festival
Bologna: March 17-30 2006
Forlì: April 1-5 2006
www.humanrightsnights.org
Human Rights Nights Film Festival is an international festival dedicated to the cinema of human rights and presents film-makers who use their camera as instrument of "visual resistance" for a more just world. After having dedicated the first 5 years of Human Rights Nights to highlight denunciations and testimonies of abuses and atrocities, which reflect the worrying human rights situation in the world, this edition is more oriented towards positive and significant alternatives for the respect of human rights and for a deep consideration of the dignity of people. Through films, roundtables and artistic expressions we will strive to understand and investigate the causes and contexts that negate the sense of humanity through aberrant forms of greediness, insecurity and danger, in order to contribute to imagine and promote a vision of the world that is ethical and oriented towards peace.
This year's edition
The theme of this year is Respect. Besides a general overview on the most recent cinematic productions, the films, conferences and external events are centered around the following thematic focus: Latin America, a New Model of Development; Terrorism of War and Structure of Peace; AgriCulture vs. AgroBusiness; Community and Human Rights and Human Trafficking. Other special events will be the visual installations Homeless Museum, an original piece by Dim Sampaio on the the theme of social marginalization, CLAM: 'African Vogue' and beyond..., for the launch of Clam magazine in Italy, and the music event Remember Sharpeville: Politburo Session-50FunkYears with jazz musicians and MC poets from South Africa.
The festival will open on the 23rd March with the screening of the film ARLINGTON WEST by Peter Dudar and Sally Marr. National premieres include: WORKING MAN'S DEATH by Michael Glawogger, THREE ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA by Pirjo Honkasalo, OCCUPATION: DREAMLAND by Garret Scott and Ian Olds, HAMBURG CELL by Antonia Bird. The opening conference, Latin America: a New Model of Development will be a moment of reflection on the new direction of the continent towards new social economic and international policies: from Lula in Brazil, to Chavez in Venezuela, to Morales in Bolivia and Kirchner in Argentina. Luis Sepulveda will participate at the conference, where he will present his new book The Power of Dream.
Useful Information
Go to our new website
www.humanrightsnights.org
to find out more about the festival, the schedule, browse film and artist's details or our archive of past years' editions.
Infoline: +39 (0)51 2194208-4844
Festival passes and entry tickets
Bologna: Cinema Lumière (Via Azzogardino 65)
Forlì: Cinema Saffi d'Essai Multisala (Viale dell'Appenino 480)
Single Entrance
Regular: 4.5€
Reduced: 3€
Day Pass
Regular: 7€
Reduced: 6€
Human Rights Nights Film Festival is promoted by Cineteca Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum-Bologna University, Unibocultura, Bologna City Council, CCSDD, Johns Hopkins University, Bologna County Council / Cultural Department. The festival is also supported by Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Law, CISL Emilia Romagna, Department of Educational Studies, La Linea and collaborates with the Faculty of Agriculture and the School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators in Forlì and Aqua.
6th Human Rights Nights Film Festival
Bologna: 17-30 Marzo 2006
Forlì: 1-5 Aprile 2006
www.humanrightsnights.org