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2013EU HUMAN RIGHTS FILM DAYS
The 3rd EU Human Rights Film Days will be organised in 8 different cities all around Turkey on 6-15 December 2013 with the supportof the European Union Delegation to Turkey, the EU Member States and their cultural centres on the occasion of 10 December, Human Rights Day.
Students, human rights advocates, film-lovers and everybody who is interested are invited to watch films and documentaries on human rights, free of charge at theatres in Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir, Bursa, Eskişehir, Trabzon, Sinop and Diyarbakır.
The event is organised by the European Union Delegation to Turkey in cooperation with the representations and cultural centres of the EU Member States, and will cover eight cities in Turkey. During the festival that will last 10 days, more than 20 films from Europe and Turkey will be shown free of charge.
The event will take start at KızılayBüyülüFenercinema at 19:00 hours on Tuesday 10 December. Following the opening ceremony, documentary MY CHILD (BenimÇocuğum) directed by Can Candan, in which parents whose children are LGBT share their individual experiences, will be shown. RehaErdem’s last movie JİN, Ali Aydın’s first film MOLD (Küf), which received Lion of the Future Award at Venice Film Festival can also be viewed at the Human Rights Film Days.
The festival does not forget the young cinema lovers. The children will be able to watchON THE WAY TO SCHOOL / OKUL YOLUNDAwith Turkish dubbing. The film was shown at the famous “Piazza Grande” (which can accommodate an audience of up to 10,000, possibly the largest open air film theatre in the world) and was met with vigorous applause at the Locarno Film Festival. Making its debut in Turkey within the context of the festival, the film tells the extraordinary story of four children from different countries of the world and their struggle to be able to go to school.
Through the event, producers, actors, actresses, and directors of some films will come together with the audience. Sociologist Olivier Peyroux will meet with the audience after the projection of the documentary Le Terrain (Arazi) in İzmir on 6 December, in Ankara on 9 December and in Diyarbakır on 10 December. Peyroux will join debates on vital issues such as human smuggling and Roma people, who are marginalised and have become the topic of heated debates recently, particularly in Europe.
During the event, films from Turkey and the EU covering fundamental rights and freedoms we share despite different ethnic roots, classes, gender, sexual orientation or political disposition are shown. The event targets creation of a new and common consciousness and awareness while encouraging the audience to ask questions on different issues such as human rights, individual identity, human dignity and intercultural dialogue.
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The films which will be shown at the 3rd EU Human Rights Film Days are as follows:
Film / Director/Yönetmen / Country/Ülke / Year/YılıIl Sole Dentro/İçimdeki Güneş / Paolo Bianchini / Italy/İtalya / 2012
The 727 Days without Karamo/Karamosuz 727 Gün / AnjaSalomonowitz / Mongolia/Moğolistan / 2013
The Brussels Business/BrükselMeselesi / Friedrich Moser, MatthieuLietaert / Austria/Avusturya / 2013
Colour of the Ocean/OkyanusunRengi / Maggie Peren / Germany/Almanya / 2011
Purge/Arınma / AnttiJokinen / Estonia, Finland/Estonya, Finlandiya / 2012
Draft Dodgers/BoyunEğmez / Nicolas Steil / Luxembourg/Lüksemburg / 2010
From Somewhere to Nowhere, On the Road in China with Photographer Andreas Seiber/BirYerdenHiçbirYere, Fotoğrafçı Andreas SeiberileÇinYollarında / Villi Hermann / Switzerland/İsviçre / 2009
Halima’s Path/Halime’ninYolculuğu / Arsen Anton Ostojić / Croatia/Hırvatistan / 2012
My Child/BenimÇocuğum / Can Candan / Turkey/Türkiye / 2013
Raoul Wallenberg’s War/Raoul Wallenberg’inSavaşı / GregorNowinski / Sweden/İsveç / 2013
Beyond the Hills/TepelerinArdında / CristianMungiu / Romania/Romanya / 2012
Music in the Blood/MüzikKanımdaVar / AlexandruMavrodineanu / Romania/Romanya / 2010
The experiment/Deney / Louise Friedberg / Denmark/Danimarka / 2010
Le terrain/Arazi / BijanAnquetil / France/Fransa / 2012
Cause Commune/SürgünHayatlar / Sophie Averty / France/Fransa / 2013
One Fine Day/GüzelBirGün / KlaasBense / The Netherlands/Hollanda / 2011
AdikosKosmos/AdaletsizDünya / FilipposTsitos / Greece/Yunanistan / 2011
No Comment/YorumYok / LyubomirHalatchev / Bulgaria/Bulgaristan / 2010
Trains/Trenler / Pavel G. Vesnakov / Bulgaria/Bulgaristan / 2011
Couleur de Peau: Miel /Ten Rengi: Buğday / Laurent Boileau, Jung Boileau / France/Fransa / 2012
Sur Le Chemin de L’école/OkulYolunda / Pascal Plisson / France/Fransa / 2013
The Other Town/ÖtekiKasaba / NefinDinç / Turkey, Greece/Türkiye, Yunanistan / 2011
Mold/Küf / Ali Aydın / Turkey, Germany/Türkiye, Almanya / 2012
Jin / RehaErdem / Turkey/Türkiye / 2012
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