Programme of the 2010 festival
Friday, October 15th 2010
Abderrahmane Sissako
Nouadhibou is a small seaside village on the Mauritanian coast.
Amongst its white-washed buildings and melodic songs passed down through generations, lives intertwine while waiting for a hypothetical happiness…
Seventeen-year-old Abdallah visits his mother before emigrating to Europe.
Unable to speak the local language, the melancholic young man finds himself a stranger in his own country.
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Time : Friday, October 15th 2010, at 7.45pm.
Location : Filmothèque du Quartier Latin.
Saturday, October 16th 2010
Hans-Christian Schmid
Hannah Maynard, prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in the Hague attempts to convince a potential witness, Mira, to testify in a crucial case against Goran Duric, a former army general, accused of crimes against humanity by deporting and killing Bosnian-Muslim civilians.
But the two women will face many legal and political hurdles…
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Time : Saturday, October 16th 2010, at 10.45am.
Location : Cinéma Escurial.
Catherine Veaux-Logeat
Time : Saturday, October 16th, at 7.45pm.
Location : Filmothèque du Quartier Latin.
Sunday, October 17th 2010
Éliane de Latour
Otho and Shad left Abidjan to try their luck in Europe.
They dream of coming back to their country as heroes and benefactors.
While Otho, escorted back to the border, is slowly rejected back home by family and friends, Shad managed to subsist in France, but with less legality and more difficulties than expected…
Through these two destinies, Après l’Océan suggests the complicated and intertwined relationship between Africa and Europe, as well as the wish for success and pride of two individuals.
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Time : Sunday, October 17th 2010, at 10.45am.
Location : Cinéma Escurial.
Villi Hermann
Tokyo based Swiss photographer Andreas Seibert has been working since 2002 on a photographic documentation about life and work of China’s migrant rural workers.
Swiss filmmaker Villi Hermann in 2006, 2007 and 2008 followed Andreas Seibert through China.
They travelled from the booming south to the fallow land of the north.
They visited migrant workers at their workplaces and went to see their simple, temporary tin huts.
And they travelled back to the migrant workers hometowns to visit the families the workers had to leave behind.
Some 150 million people have already set out from underdeveloped rural provinces to earn their living in the growth centres of China.
The migrant rural worker’s stories are told in a collection of striking photographs that provide a close-up portrait to complement the current discussion of economic growth in China.
With its combination of photographs and video images, this documentary movie conveys a unique impression of the scale of this modern migration − the largest in human history.
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Time : Sunday, October 17th 2010, at 7.45pm.
Location : Filmothèque du Quartier Latin.
Monday, October 18th 2010
The international short film competition on human rights.
We will screen a selection of films funny, moving, sad, serious, hilarious. In presence of the film directors!
All the films selected will compete to three prizes of the Festival:
The Grand Prize and the Special Prize for Human Rights will be awarded by an independent jury composed of personalities from the world of cinema experts and human rights;
The Audience Award will be awarded by the audience at the screening of the short films.
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Time : Monday, October 18th 2010 at 7.45pm.
Location : Filmothèque du Quartier Latin.
Tuesday, October 19th 2010
Zhao Liang
The dysfunctional Chinese justice system allows citizens with grievances against their local governments to petition the court to clear or correct their record.
Yet in order to do so, the petitioners must travel to Beijing to file paperwork and wait an indefinite period to plead their case.
Even when they get a favorable ruling, they are often at the mercy of local officials to follow the ruling, and may have to petition again to get the ruling upheld.
The large majority of petitioners are impoverished villagers who travel far to the capital and typically end up waiting desperately in decrepit shantytowns for their cases to be settled.
Often they are chased and pressured to return home by thugs hired by local governments to dissuade the petitioners, lest the municipality get a bad name for corruption.
Following the saga of a group of petitioners over the years of 1996 and 2008, Petition unfolds like a novel by Zola or Dickens.
Unwilling to accept defeat and seemingly unable to do anything but wait, the petitioners enter a strange and often terrifying zone, gradually losing touch with family and friends back home and with the cruel reality of their situation.
This was filmed surreptitiously from the point of view of the petitioners, and not the justice officials, the police, or those heavies sent by the municipalities.
And the film, but not the story largely ends when the petitioner’s village is destroyed to make way for a new train station in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Time : Tuesday, October 19th 2010, at 8.15pm.
Location : Filmothèque du Quartier Latin.
Friday, October 22nd 2010
Debate on Human Rights in Russia, in the presence of Danièle Artur, Amnesty International France’s expert on Russia, and of Martine Royo, head of Amnesty International Paris.
The prizes for the International Short Film Competition will be given in the presence of the jury and the short film directors.
A buffet will eventually end the festival.
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Time : Friday, Octobre 22nd 2010 at 8pm.
Location : Mairie du 13e arrondissement.
Further information
Film posters, press kit and flyers are available in the press kit 2010.
Please feel free to contact us for further information.
