Humans Fest this year organizes the Human Rights Forum to give voice to our rights. Parallel activities and meetings with directors as an ideal complement to the official sections of the festival. We start with strength and celebration with inauguration party (Friday the 10th at 10:45 p.m.) and closure (Friday the 17th at 10:45 p.m.) at Radio City, a space where people with diverse concerns, open, tolerant and creative minds meet.
Meetings with directors
We continue with the Meetings with directors, a space created to talk about the themes of movies. Here we describe each of those meetings so that, with an agenda and pen, you can write down the dates. ✒️📒
📍The movie in the same boat by Rudy Gnutti listens to specialists such as Zygmunt Bauman or the former president of Uruguay José Mujica, and testimonies from ordinary people in search of solutions to our accelerated society. We can almost say that the best thing will be what happens once the film is seen with the colloquium with Rudi Gnutti (director), Joan Romero (Professor of Human Geography at the University of Valencia) and Quique Sanchez (Foundation for Justice). Aim for Saturday the 11th, at 6pm at the Film Library.
📍 Sands of silence by Chelo Álvarez-Stehle, engages in a 15-year quest to expose the underworld of trafficking and sexual exploitation from Asia to the Americas from an intimate view of the endemic problem. At 8pm on Sunday the 12th at the Filmoteca We will have the presentation of the documentary with the director, Claudia García Giraldo, survivor of sociopolitical violence in Colombia and trafficking for sexual exploitation, and Pilar Vázquez, CEAR lawyer.
📍 On Monday the 13th at 8pm the official short films section at Aragó Cinema and after the screenings, a meeting with the directors will be planned under the title Breaking boundaries through short films.
📍 On Tuesday the 14th, everyone the Film Library, because we will have a presentation of Tarajal: Dismantling impunity on the southern border by its directors Xavier Artigas and Xapo Ortega 6pm with a subsequent colloquium with Jaume Durà (CEAR) to talk about migration, refugees, the right to asylum, police brutality and repression.
📍 Following at 8pm we will have the premiere of The strategy of silence presented by its director Vicent Peris and Rosa Garrote, president of the Association of Metro Victims. Are we a sleepy society? Come debate during the meeting.
📍 On Wednesday the 15th, the colloquiums will focus on the rights of indigenous peoples, natural resources and the economic model, under the subsequent colloquium of When Two Worlds Collide by Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel (to be screened at 6 p.m.). We will be accompanied by María Escalona (Amnesty International PV), Pepa Prósper Candel (Valencia en Bici – Acció Ecologista Agró) and Edgard Vega (Centre Delàs d'Estudis de Pau).
📍 At 8pm we will have the pleasure of having Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla, directors of An Insignificant Man who together with Pablo Oñate (Professor of Political Sciences at UC3) will establish a colloquium around the new politics, democracy, participation and corruption.
📍 The latest Meetings with directors We will have them on Thursday the 16th and they will revolve around transsexuality; transphobia, intolerance and exclusion, LGTBI groups and the social and sexual revolution in Cuba. In the pass of Just A Normal Person (at 6 p.m.) with its director Malin Björkman-Widell and Sam Gisslow, protagonist of the documentary, and Ángel Galán, Movement Against Intolerance, and José de Lamo, General Director of Equality in Diversity of the GVA. In the pass of Transit Havana (at 8 p.m.) we will have director Daniel Abma and screenwriter Alex Bakker with Lambda.
Parallel activities Humans Fest
The parallel activities are loaded with awareness and reflection. At Humans Fest we invite you to join in these debates, so necessary in our modern times.
➡️ Can audiovisual be a tool for change? Sign up for the #RoundTable in it Col·legi Major Rector Peset with the participation of Nanguan Manzam, Head of Volunteering and Advocacy of the Spanish Commission for Refugee Assistance (CEAR), Ann Hernández (producer of "Vidas en transit"), and the directors of the short films to be screened: Rubén Monsuy, Samuel Sebastián and Emilio Martí. The appointment is Sunday the 12th at 6:00 p.m.
➡️ The challenge that exists between the artistic, stereotypes and clichés when they relate to human rights and perpetuate situations of violence and injustice. Capturing rights: Image and Human Rights will be the title of the #RoundTable composed by Paco Roca (illustrator of the Humans Fest 2017 poster), Ismael Quintanilla (doctor in psychology) and Samuel Sebastian (filmmaker). The appointment is Monday the 13th at 6:00 p.m. in La Nau.
➡️ Monitor and report: Documentalists, political advocacy and Human Rights will be the third #RoundTable that will look for possible similarities between the stories discussed in Tarajal, The strategy of silence y An insignificant man along with its directors, and Samuel Sebastián and Laura Ballester (Journalist Levante-EMV). The appointment is Wednesday the 15th at 4:30 p.m. in La Nau.
➡️ We close the parallel activities on Thursday the 16th with two events in two collaborating spaces. He world day of child soldiers in the SGAE with the projection of That wasn't me by Esteban Crespo and the #RoundTable together with Samuel Sebastian, Encarna Durán Costell (Entreculturas Education Technician) and Chema Segura (Jesuit Migrant Service). Meeting with directors at CA REVOLTA at 10:45 p.m. with Malin Björkman-Widell + Sam Gisslow and Daniel Abma + Alex Bakker.
We hope that the agenda is already full and that the pen has ink left because a week full of unique activities awaits us in #HumansFest.
📲 All the information of the Human Rights Forum here.