This year Humans Fest wanted to dedicate a special section to the Women rights and claim their role in front of and behind the camera. To do this, we have partnered naturally with the Valencian festival Donate i Cinema which offers us two powerful meetings with two documentary filmmakers with an international profile: Lula Gómez and Emanuela Zucalà. His films will be screened at the MUVIM on February 18 and 19.
Lula Gómez and 7 fighters for peace in Colombia
Lula Gómez is a Spanish journalist who regularly deals with the topic of gender. She is a contributor to El País, La Marea and Tintalibre. The “no” from the media led him to self-produce and direct the documentary that we will see on Saturday, February 18 at 6 p.m.: «Women at the forefront, the law of the noblest".
This film made in 2016 tells the story of seven Colombian women who build alternatives to war. The word, memory, reintegration and justice are their weapons. The documentary has won First Prize at the Orquídea de los Andes Festival and was a finalist at the Malaga festival.
After the screening, there will be time for a discussion with the director. An ideal occasion to talk about the role of women in a still latent conflict like that of Colombia. It has been barely two months since the peace agreement was signed between the government and the FARC.
A trip around the world with the Italian director Emanuela Zuccalà
On Sunday, February 19, we will travel to horn of africa, he Sahara y Albania with the short films of the filmmaker Emanuela Zuccalà. Journalist and documentary filmmaker specialized in women's rights, Zuccalà was awarded the Freedom of Expression Award from Reporters Without Borders in 2012. His works have been published in "Io Donna", "El Corriere" and El País. At Humans Fest we will learn about her role as a documentary director with three short films that address very different themes but whose stories have women as protagonists:
Uncut (2015) 20'
A web-documentary about the coalition of women in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia to end the female genital mutilations. For more than 200 million women in the world, the transition to adulthood involves this cruel practice.
The Law of Blood (2016) 13'
Marjie Qukaj was murdered on June 14, 2012. She was 17 years old. She has been the only woman in many years to be the victim of a Blood revenge. His face is the symbol of the absurdity of the struggles between families in Northern Albania who have recovered a medieval code of accounting regulations.
Just so you know I'm alive (2014) 20'
The history of Western Sahara is marked by the systematic violation of human rights. Disappearances, torture, secret prisons, mass graves…No process and no justice. Far from showing resentment and despite the forgetfulness of the international community, Sahrawi women maintain a surprising hope in a better future.