Human Touch / Green Nights
21-26 October 2010
opening night: Thursday 21 October, 19.00 at Cinema Lumière, Bologna
Human Rights Nights, festival of cinema, arts and music dedicated to human rights issues, opens its 10th edition by embracing the global campaign against climate change, and by connecting itself always more to international networks or organisations and artists dedicated to a fairer and more humane world.
Human Rights Nights was born as Film Festival. It thus open with two film previews: the wonderful film by Xavier Beavois, Des Hommes et des Dieus, Special Jury Prize in Cannes 2010, and with Human Rights Stories - a collection of author short films produced on occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universak Declaration of Human Rights. A special programme is the presentation of the films made for global campaigns, such as the short films for the 'Robin Hood Tax' (an infinitesimal tax on the thrillions of dollars exchanged in international financial transactions, which would allow the creation of an annual fund of 100 billions against poverty) and the very beautiful short film by Anthony Minghella for the campaign 'Drop the Debt' of the 'Make the Poverty History' movement. The festival reflects also on the professional raise of young film-makers and artists - such as Emily James, Andy Okoroafor and Tom Hooper - who were our guests at the beginning of their career in the first years of the festival, and that now are renowned professionals at international level. Finally, 10 years of Human Rights Nights will present some of the best films screened at the festival in these years and inaugurate HRNs Videoteca: more than 200 titles of the films screened at Human Rights Nights are now available for viewing in the video section of the Cineteca Library in Bologna.
HRNs 2010-3025...!
HRNs 2010 is especially a practical opportunity to re-think the festival, to open it up and re-inventing it together with all the social and humanitarian organisation, the creatives, the artists and the musicians, the institutions, the donors and the minds that in these years have inspired and followed.
The festival will thus be an occasion to re-project together HRNs 2010-3025...!, to valorise the network that in these years has developed at local and global level for human rights through cinema and arts, and to expand it toward potentials not yet fully exploited in the city and beyond.
GREEN HUMAN RIGHTS NIGHTS
Human Rights Nights – evergreen – but this year even more! Climate change is a tragic reality that has resulted in a series of climate related disasters, erratic weather changes and modifications in the earth, which produce a disproportionate impacts in terms of destruction and deaths especially on the people who live in poverty in the South of the world - as it was for flooding in Pakistan and drought in Niger and Sahel. With no attention and global actions towards a long term management of the resources of the environment, the battle won over the last 50 years against poverty in the world and for the development of poor countries, will be compromised by the devastating effects of a crazy climate. Looking forward to the next world forum on the environment in December in Cancun, the organisations for the environment and development take action in a series of campaigns to raise awareness in the public, but also to give an example of independent interventions to reduce and contain the CO2 emissions. Human Rights Nights embrace the campaign 10:10 (to contain the emissions of CO2 of 10% before the end of 2010) and the campaign 350.org (to contain the emissions within the extreme limit of 350 parts per million, beyond which it is the point of no return. We are now at 390...), and transform the festival in a permanent flash-crop, planting ANT cyclamin, herbs and seeds of 'Sow the Seed' by Oxfam.
Cineteca candidates itself as green institution, with the commitment to explore options to reduce energy use and to systematically organice the recycle of waste. Indica, a society that offers innovative services of consultancy for the projects and experimentation of new management instruments oriented towards social, cultural and environmental sustainability, sponsors the neutralisation of carbon emission out of festival screenings.
“Ciclabiamoci”! dates:
*Bike to the cinema, you will receive a gift!
*Pianta-là! Friday 22 at 19.00 in the green of Cortile Cinema Lumière we will plant together... a cyclamine, a herb or a seed.
*Swap Party: from friday 22 to monday 25, from 19.00 to 20.00 it will be possible to exchange objects, books, clothes, toys, CDs... at Baratto Point, in the Cortile Cinema Lumière, in collaboration with Banca del Tempo
*Every nite from 18.00 to 23.00, sustainable drinks (aperitivi) at HRNs Café, with tasty 'crescentine', pizza, rosted chestnut and organic products, in collaboration with Centro Giorgio Costa and Mercato della Terra.
Film Highlight: RELENTLESS by Andy Okoroafor (Nigeria-France/2010)
Obi, ex peace-keeping soldier in Sierra Leone, survives in Lagos, Nigeria, to the loss of his girlfriend Blessing and the war traumas. He manages a security agency and finds himself involved in power games, politics, corruption and violence in the run-up to the country election. Visually innovative and expressionist, the film explores the potential of digital cinema. It simultaneously represents the consequences of war and violence on Africa, whilst celebrating its strenght, energy and music.
RELENTLESS official website: www.clamfilms.com
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Officina Cinema Sud-Est has started in 2008 an award to value productions by foreign filmmakers living in Italy. The prize, unique in our country, is a recognition to the artistic creativity of film-makers of African, Asiatic or Latin American origins, who lives in Italy, for the production of a cinema project at the stage of development. Created in memory of Gianandrea Mutti, forever passionate promoter of world cinema, the Award is strongly supported by Associazione Amici di Giana, in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna. During Human Rights Nights 2010, the Award will be conferred for the production of a film within 2011.
Arts.
Human Rights Nights presents the work BIO-ABISSO (L’horizon glisse) 2010 by Giorgio Bevignani. The fall of nature in the short-sightness of the human horizon, represented through an organic structure composed of 610 moduls of ceramic, pigments and a tree.
Giorgio Bevignani, who lives and works in Bologna, has (re)created BIO-ABISSO inspired by Human Rights Nights.
VisualLab, laboratory of visual communication in Bologna, which experiments in different image tecniques and languages, curates the video installation of the festival opening night.
Music
HRNs Cafè will be animated by
AfricanBamba sound-system; drummers and djembes play “A beat for peace” for the global campaign "Drum for Sudan".
The project Human Rights Orchestra is introduced by Luca Franzetti with a video and a musical exhibition for solo violoncello.
Finally, the concert of the great Argentinian pianist, Miguel Angel Estrella will close the festival, on occasion of the celebration of the Bicentenary of Argentina and of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy.