FLASHPOINT Human Rights Film Festival

- One woman who fights to defend women sentenced to stone killing in Iran.

- One woman in Cambodia who was a victim of child trafficking and now protects and supports other child victims.

- One woman in Algeria who sets up a committee of mothers whose children ‘disappeared’ in a dirty war waged by a dictatorship against its own population

- One Spanish man who goes in into the Gaza Strip fearlessly to expose the atrocities of Israeli war crimes.

- Two men in Rome who unite with those of the same mind to combat homophobia against the combined forces of state, church and society

- A group of rural women in Nepal who take up cudgels against the monarchy

The eight documentaries to be screened at FLASHPOINT Human Rights Film Festival shine a harsh beam on human rights issues like Human Trafficking & Child prostitution; Violation of international laws on war & peace; Atrocities under Military regime; Religious fundamentalism & Homophobia; Political annexation/occupation and oppression; Women disempowerment and honor killings; Ravages of Civil War and hostilities and War crimes and killing of innocents.

FLASHPOINT Human Rights Film Festival brings together eight extraordinary films from around the world that deal with human rights issues at macro as well as micro level; from global concerns to indigenous issues. These films urge us to reflect, react, revolutionalize and act as a ‘flashpoint’ to usher in change.

Screening of these films alongwith panel discussion intends to change perceptions and mindsets and initiate action by making a call for the audience to act as ‘Flashpointers’.

 

Flashpoint Website

 

LIST OF FILMS at FLASHPOINT Human Rights Film Festival


REDLIGHT

Dir: Guy Jacobson / Adi Ezroni

2009, 72 min / United States / English, Khmer

 

Personal stories of two young Cambodian victims of child traffic and two brave women who fight this form

of child abuse

 

SONG FOR AMINE

Dir: Alberto Bougleux

2009, 53 min. / Spain, France, Italy / Arabic, French

 

A mother’s fight to find out about her son who has disappeared alongwith countless others since the early nineties, when Algeria waged war on radical Islam.

SUDDENLY, LAST WINTER

Dir: Gustav Hofer / Luca Ragazzi

2008, 78 min / Italy / Italian

 

Life of a gay couple in Rome is turned upside down when the Italian government introduces a bill to reinforce legal status of gays, provoking a country-wide debate and a wave of homophobia in Italy.

 

THE SARI SOLDIERS

Dir: Julie Bridgham

2008, 92 min / Nepal, United States / English, Nepali

 

When Devi witnesses her niece being killed by the Royal Army of Nepal, she decided to speak out. In retaliation the army kidnapped her daughter. 'The Sari Soldiers' follows Devi on her quest to find her daughter

THE 10 CONDITIONS OF LOVE

Dir: Jeff Daniels

2009, 53 min / United States, Australia / English

 

A stirring film about the richest woman in China who was put on arrest for six years when she raised her voice against China annexing the territory of the Islamic Uyghurs because of large oil and gas reserves

 

TO SHOOT AN ELEPHANT

Dir: Alberto Arce / Mohammed Rujailah

2009, 112 min. / Spain /  Arabic, English

 

What is it like to live in the Gaza Strip occupied by Israel, an area of about 140 square miles that is home to one and a half million Palestinians? Where bullets and mines kill innocent children

WOMEN IN SHROUD

Dir: Farid Haerinejad / Mohd Reza Kazemi

2009, 73 min. / Iran, Canada / Farsi

 

Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, women in Iran, accused of adultery are stoned to death – even without proof of guilt. 'Women in Shroud' follows a group of Iranian lawyers and human rights defenders that campaign against these unfair convictions.

 

WOMEN IN WHITE

Dir: Gry Winther

2009, 52 min. / Cuba, USA, Spain / Spanish, English

 

In March 2003, 75 journalists, writers and human rights activists were arrested in Cuba. They received prison sentences of 20- 30 years. Since then their wives, sisters and mothers, the women in white, walk silently through the streets demanding their release.


More details about films and festival at -  http://flashpointfilmfestival.blogspot.com

 

 

Schedule: MUMBAI | Dec 8 – 10, 2010



 


Wednesday, Dec 8, 2010


Thursday, Dec 9, 2010


Friday, Dec 10, 2010


10.00 - 12.00


THE SARI SOLDIERS  92 min


WOMEN IN WHITE  52 min.

 

SUDDENLY, LAST WINTER 78 min


TO SHOOT AN ELEPHANT 112 min.


12.30  - 1.30


SONG FOR AMINE 53 min.


THE 10 CONDITIONS OF LOVE 53 min


SONG FOR AMINE 53 min.


2.00 - 3.30


REDLIGHT  72 min


TO SHOOT AN ELEPHANT 112 mins


WOMEN IN SHROUD 73 min.


3:45 - 4:45


PANEL DISCUSSION

(on human trafficking and inadequacy of the law)


WOMEN IN SHROUD  73 min.

 

PANEL DISCUSSION

(on violence against women)


PANEL DISCUSSION

(on rise of religious intolerance and possible legal action against that)


5:00 - 6-00


WOMEN IN WHITE   52 min.


SUDDENLY, LAST WINTER  78 min.


6.30 - 8.00


 

10 CONDITIONS OF LOVE  53 min

 


 THE SARI SOLDIERS  92 min


REDLIGHT  72 min

 

 

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