Amnesty International Alpes-Maritimes presents its first film festival “AT THE HEART OF HUMAN RIGHTS” which will take place from Friday, November 15th to Sunday, December 1st in seven cities of Alpes-Maritimes: Cannes, Carros, Grasse, La Gaude, Nice, Sophia Antipolis, and Valbonne.
Organized by the volunteers of Amnesty International Alpes-Maritimes, this event is intended for the general public and school audiences (middle and high schools) and aims to be ambitious with screenings over two weeks in seven cities of the department, free screenings, debates after each session, and artistic evenings.
Amnesty International’s vision is of a world where everyone can claim all the rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and other international human rights instruments. This festival will be an opportunity for encounters with the public to share the association’s ambition: to contribute to a more just and supportive world.
For Amnesty International, human rights education is a preventive action that raises awareness and understanding of human rights, increases the knowledge and skills necessary to respect and defend these rights, and evolves attitudes and behaviors for this purpose.
FESTIVAL OBJECTIVES
To share with as many people as possible, the passion of the association’s volunteers for cinema and human rights. The 7th Art is the medium capable of illustrating and making tangible a concept too often abstract: human rights. As an art, it is able to do so in an original, appealing form, sometimes funny, sometimes moving, often perplexing, but rarely leaving one indifferent.
A DEMANDING PROGRAM…
The films scheduled during this fortnight will be the basis for debates following the screenings, within the framework of the current themes of Amnesty International:
forced evictions: “Even a Bird Needs a Nest” by Vincent Trintignant-Corneau and Christine Chanson
the death penalty: “Into The Abyss” by Warner Herzog
the situation of asylum seekers: “Ceuta Sweet Prison” by Jonathan Millet
discrimination: “Our School” by Mona Nicoara Coca-Cozma, “Call me Kuchu” by Malika Zouhali and Katherine Fairfax Wright, and “Romeos” by Sabine Bernardi
torture, impunity: “The Act of Killing” by Joshua Oppenheimer
immigration: “A Tunisian Winter” by Teresa Maffeis and Guy Ouillon
the journey of an undocumented migrant: “France Who Gets Up Early” by Ugo Chesnard
inhumane and degrading conditions of Louisiana prisoners: “In the Land of Freedom” by Jean Vadim
the journey of a child soldier: “Rebel” by Kim Nguyen
Vincent Trintignant-Corneau and Christine Chanson, co-directors of the film “Even a Bird Needs a Nest”, will be present on November 19, 20, and 21 during screenings-debates in Grasse, Cannes, and Nice.
…AND OPEN TO THE YOUNG PUBLIC
The festival aims to open these films to a wide audience with screenings intended for young audiences, middle and high schools, with the support of the National Education.
ARTISTIC EVENINGS
An inaugural evening will be held on Saturday, November 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Court Circuit Café, 4 rue Vernier in Nice, with an “Italian-Neapolitan” concert by the group Mama Vendetta, led by Alexandra Lamia (also singer of Barizone Orchestra). As a duo, they will offer a reinterpretation of the rather uninhibited standards of Italian music…
Amnesty International will also offer an evening in partnership with Panda Events, on Saturday, November 23 at the Espace Magnan from 8 p.m., with many guests: slam with Noémya, reggae with Abaia, soul with Nyounai, rhythm’n’blues with the Blues Sound System, and theater with the Miranda Company.
