HUMAN TOUCH
Human Rights Nights is a festival of cinema, arts and music dealing with human rights issues. Through the art expression of directors, artists and musicians, the festival aims to present the different realities that exist in contemporary society. Camera, sound and creativity are the means through which the human rights artists share their vision of the present-day world and express their concerns and their anger towards humanity condition. At the same time, art and cinema, as well as music, allow us to dream, to picture a different world, a better world, where no abuses on mankind are committed. A world where the right of “being human” is both respected and protected.
HUMAN RIGHTS NIGHTS 2010
10th anniversary
As a preview to the next edition Human Rights Nights 2010, programmed for next autumn, we celebrate the 10th birthday of the festival to cherish all energies, commitment, creativity and passions that have nourished it throughout these years.
Human Touch: cinema, arts and music
allows us to dream a different world, a better one... a world there the right of 'being human' is respected and protected.
The birthday party Human Touch will be on 3rd June from 20.00 at Cinema Lumière, with sparkling wine, music and screenings of short films, documentaries and animation, together with Amnesty International, Amici di Giana, and Macondo; on 5th June from 19.00 at La Scuderia, Piazza Verdi, with the concerts of Mama Afrika (afro-reggae) and Maracinesente (music and dances from Southern Italy, in collaboration with School TarantArte), Dj set Reggaetano, Visual Lab imaging... and a birthday cake!
Programme Human Touch
3 June - Cinema Lumière, Via Azzo Gardino 65/a
20.00
Aperitive Human Touch
ore 22.00
Human Rights Nights Films
Presentation Premio Gianandrea Mutti 2010, an initiative of Officina Cinema Sud-Est, in collaboration with Associazione Amici di Giana
Wax Wings (Italy/2009) by Hedy Krissane (10')
The short film represents with irony the tragic drama of the silent genocide that every year breaks the dreams of young people who lose their lives in the hope of reaching the Italian coasts, for a better life. Thousands of deaths, whose bodies rest invisible in the deep of the wonderful Mediterranean Sea...
Me, my Rom family and Woody Allen (italy/2009) by Laura Halilovic
(50')
The documentary is not only a look on the humanity of the relations in a small Rom community in Turin, but is also the biography of a girl who grows up following her dreams and battling against prejudices and the traditions of a difficult culture for her to accept. Through the memories of her relatives, the photos and films of the father, we discover a reality that is up to now known only through stereotypes and clichès.
Red Leaves Falling. A story of Child Pornography and Child Sex Trafficking
(Phippine/2009) by Monica D. Ray (23')
It is an animation short produced by Starway Fondation Inc., a NGO of the Philippine that fights for the protection of marginalised and street children, easy prey of sexual trafficking as a consequence of the poverty of their families, whom without knowing sell their child girls into prostitution.
Introduction by Amnesty International
5 June – La Scuderia, Piazza Verdi
19.00
BUON COMPLEANNO Human Rights Nights!!!!!
Mama Afrika - afro reggae
Maracinesente - music and dances from Southern Italy, in collaboration with Scuola
TarantArte by Maristella Martella
Human Rights Nights, started in 2001 from an idea of CCSDD (Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development - Johns Hopkins University / Faculty of Law, University of Bologna) is promoted by Comune di Bologna, Cineteca di Bologna and Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna.
The event Human Touch is promoted by Officina Cinema Sud-Est, with the support of Banca Popolare di Milano and Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, in collaboration with La Scuderia.
