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The Valencia International Film and Human Rights Festival, <\/span>Humans Fest<\/b>, organized by Fundaci\u00f3n por la Justicia since 2009, has presented the official programming for its <\/span>XVI edition<\/b>This year, the Official Feature Film Section, which includes Humans Fic (fiction) and Humans Doc (documentary), will feature 10 feature film premieres: two international premieres, seven from Spain, and one screening for the first time in Valencia.<\/span><\/p>\n "This year we have made an effort in programming so that all the feature films in competition are premieres and we are very happy," she acknowledged. <\/span>Pilar Almenar<\/b>, director of Humans Fest, at the event that was held this morning at MUVIMAS, the MuVIM cafeteria.<\/span><\/p>\n Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Tom\u00e1s y T\u00edo, president of the Foundation for Justice, and Patricia Bolinches, the designer in charge of the official poster, also participated in this presentation. \u201cWe want to highlight that war is not an acceptable method for resolving any conflict. For 16 years, we have believed that a film festival is the best tool for presence and awareness in the environment in which we operate,\u201d stated Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Tom\u00e1s y T\u00edo.<\/span><\/p>\n For her part, Patricia Bolinches explained that with the poster she designed for this year's edition, she sought to "create a bit of visual poetry with a topic as complex as war and peace. The color green was essential to represent the earth and the hope we so desperately need."<\/span><\/p>\n 2025 HONORARY AWARD FOR HERN\u00c1N ZIN<\/b><\/p>\n The Humans Fest team has decided to recognize Hern\u00e1n Zin's professional career this year, and he will receive the honorary award in person. <\/span>Peace and Justice<\/span><\/i> at the opening ceremony to be held on May 29.<\/span><\/p>\n Hern\u00e1n Zin (Buenos Aires, 1971) is a war reporter, writer, and documentary filmmaker. He has worked in more than 80 countries and has focused his work on social issues. The author of seven books and more than 40 documentaries, his films include <\/span>Villas Miseria<\/span><\/i> (2009), <\/span>The war against women<\/span><\/i> (2013), <\/span>I want to be Messi<\/span><\/i> (2013), <\/span>Born in Gaza<\/span><\/i> (2014), <\/span>10 years old baby cone<\/span><\/i> (2016), <\/span>Born in Syria<\/span><\/i> (2017) or <\/span>Dying to Tell<\/span><\/i> (2018). He has been nominated for the Emmy, Latin Grammy, and Goya Awards. He has won first prize at the Montreal Film Festival, a Platino Award, two Forqu\u00e9 Awards, and two Iris Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n A CYCLE AT THE IVC FILM LIBRARY WITH HERN\u00c1N ZIN AND ROSA MAR\u00cdA CALAF<\/b><\/p>\n The award to Hern\u00e1n Zin will serve as the backbone of the cycle that Humans Fest will develop at the IVC Film Library under the title <\/span>\u201cArmed conflicts and culture of peace\u201d<\/b>, which is the festival's theme in 2025. "Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is built. At Humans Fest, we like to say that we don't have the solution to the questions, that we don't know how to end all the armed conflicts on the planet, but what we can contribute are more points of reflection and, above all, generate spaces to find collective responses, which are the most effective," stated Pilar Almenar.<\/span><\/p>\n This series will include seven screenings in total. It will kick off with Zin himself and his documentary. <\/span>Dying to Tell<\/span><\/i> (2018). This session, which will take place on Friday, May 30 at 6:00 p.m., will feature a post-screening discussion, also featuring journalist Rosa Mar\u00eda Calaf, a special guest at the festival.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The cycle will continue on Saturday, May 31 with <\/span>Edge of night<\/span><\/i> (2024), a screening in collaboration with the Valladolid International Film Week (Seminci), this year's guest festival at Humans Fest. Therefore, this session will be presented by Jos\u00e9 Luis Cienfuegos, director of Seminci, and Jos\u00e9 Antonio Hurtado, head of programming at the Valencian Film Library.<\/span><\/p>\n That same day, next (at 8 pm), it will be the turn of <\/span>Eyes of Gaza<\/span><\/i> (2025), whose director (Mahmoud Atassi) and producer (Abdulrahman Alkilany) will also participate in a subsequent panel discussion to explain the experiences of journalists who risk their lives to report from Palestine. The closing session will focus on the war in Ukraine with the documentary <\/span>Intercepted<\/span><\/i> (2024), an approximation based on phone calls from soldiers to their families that can be seen at 10 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n For his part, Hern\u00e1n Zin's work will return on Sunday, June 1, at 8 p.m., with the screening of <\/span>The war against women<\/span><\/i> (2013), a documentary that denounces the use of rape as a weapon of war in various conflicts around the world. The series will conclude on Wednesday, June 4, at 8:00 p.m., with <\/span>For you Portugal, I swear!<\/span><\/i> (2024), which tells the story of West African soldiers fighting for Portugal against independence movements in its colonies.<\/span><\/p>\n The series will also include two sessions within the Menuda Filmo program, aimed at children. They will be held on Saturday the 31st and Sunday the 1st, at 6 p.m. both days, when you can enjoy <\/span>Flow <\/span><\/i>(2024), the animated film that received both the Oscar and the Golden Globe this year\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n THE OFFICIAL SECTION OF 2025 IN DETAIL<\/b><\/p>\n Humans Fest will bring productions from countries on four continents, including Spain, Argentina, Germany, the Czech Republic, the United Arab Emirates, Chile, and the United States.<\/span> best fiction feature film<\/b> (Humans Fic) five films will compete: four premieres in Spain (<\/span>Year of the Widow<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Thanks for banking with us!, For your good<\/span><\/i> y <\/span>No dogs allowed<\/span><\/i>) and a world premiere (<\/span>This is my night<\/span><\/i>). All of them will be screened at Cines Babel.<\/span><\/p>\n For their part, five other proposals will aspire to <\/span>best documentary feature film<\/b>: three premieres in Spain (<\/span>My sweet land, Public bodies<\/span><\/i> y <\/span>I'm here<\/span><\/i>), a premiere in Valencia (<\/span>Day laborers: the bad boss<\/span><\/i>) and a world premiere (<\/span>The Promised House<\/span><\/i>). These will also be shown at Cines Babel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the <\/span>short film competition section<\/b>, which will be held at the SGAE Cultural Centre from Monday 2 to Thursday 5 June, will feature 20 works: seven fiction, eight documentaries and five Valencian (specific category <\/span>Curt i Barrejat<\/span><\/i>). These will compete for the awards for best documentary short, best fiction short, best Valencian short film, and best Valencian short film script, awarded by the Valencian Audiovisual Writers Association (EDAV).<\/span><\/p>\n The <\/span>accessibility for all audiences<\/b> will once again be a priority for Humans Fest, which for its 16th edition has renewed its collaboration with the ONCE Foundation to offer audio description services and with FESORD for sign language interpretation at some screenings, as well as with the Association of Cochlear Implant Patients of the Valencian Community (CERMI). In addition, the festival will once again have a Filmin channel, which will be available from June 2 to 15, when two feature films and ten short films in competition this year can be enjoyed on the platform.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n PARALLEL PROGRAMMING: DEBATES AND VERMOUTHS<\/b><\/p>\n Humans Fest will also feature a parallel program as in previous editions. On the one hand, it will celebrate the <\/span>Debates Humans<\/i><\/b> At the Rector Peset Residence Hall: two talks, including screenings, featuring experts who will address various aspects of human rights.<\/span><\/p>\n The first of these will be on Tuesday, June 3, at 6:00 p.m., under the title <\/span>Resistance and acceptance: defending rights in hostile environments<\/span><\/i>. This is where the short films that emerged from the participatory documentary workshop taught by La Cosecha Comunicaci\u00f3n as part of the Humans Fest will be presented. The second, <\/span>Women on the front lines of peace<\/span><\/i>, will be on Thursday, June 5, at 6 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, the festival has organized a workshop focused on audiovisual professionals: <\/span>Keys and resources for a more inclusive cinema<\/span><\/i>This activity, organized in collaboration with CERMI, requires prior registration and will feature filmmaker Miguel \u00c1ngel Font as a speaker, who will share tools, examples, and strategies for creating more accessible and inclusive audiovisual works from the ground up.<\/span><\/p>\n Likewise, in this XVI edition the so-called <\/span>Vermouths Humans <\/i><\/b>At MuVIMAS (the MuVIM cafeteria): two meetings with activists will take place on Saturday mornings, May 31 and June 7, to talk about hate speech and the tools to combat it (<\/span>I love you too: against hate and lies, pro-narratives<\/span><\/i>) and on peaceful responses in the current context of increasing military spending and arms trade (<\/span>So I pay! Money for war, money for peace.<\/span><\/i>).<\/span><\/p>\n Coinciding with the first vermouth, on Saturday morning, May 31st, the gymkhana "Shared Path: Discovering Stories of Migration and Diversity" will be held in the MuVIM plaza. This activity, in collaboration with the NGO AESCO, offers an immersive experience of the difficulties and decisions migrants face, developing empathy, understanding the realities of migration, and generating group reflection.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFRESH CINEMA\u201d IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF LA TORRE, NAZARET AND ORRIOLS<\/b><\/p>\n Finally, the festival will maintain its commitment to taking cinema to the streets with its<\/span> "Outdoor cinema" screenings, so that citizens have free access to the festival's contents close to home. This year, the screenings will take place in three locations: the Plaza Parroquia Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de Gracia, in <\/span>The Tower<\/b>, on Saturday, May 31st; the courtyard of the Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de los Desamparados School, in <\/span>Nazareth<\/b>, on Thursday, June 5; and the Ermita Garden Plaza, in <\/span>Orriols<\/b>, on Friday, June 6. All of them starting at 9:30 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n Regarding the screening in La Torre, Pilar Almenar clarified that at Humans Fest, "we cannot and do not want to ignore our immediate surroundings," and thus, in this way, the festival aims to support the areas affected by the DANA. "This is an activity in which everyone from the mayor's office of the La Torre-Faitanar district to the parish, the residents' association, and the neighborhood fallas have been actively involved. We are very happy that they liked our proposal," concluded the director of Humans Fest.<\/span><\/p>\n Humans Fest is part of the international Human Rights Film Network, along with 52 other film and human rights festivals from around the world. Its 15th edition, the last to be held, was thanks to the collaboration of the Vice-Presidency and Department of Social Services, Equality and Housing of the Generalitat Valenciana; the Valencian Institute of Culture; the Valencian City Council; the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA); the Valencian Provincial Council; Caixa Popular and Teika. For its part, the Valencian regional radio and television channel, \u00c0 Punt, is the official channel of the festival.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El festival, organizado por Fundaci\u00f3n por la Justicia, se celebrar\u00e1 del 29 de mayo al 7 de junio y llevar\u00e1 de nuevo proyecciones a los barrios (La Torre, Nazaret y Orriols) El premio honor\u00edfico de este a\u00f1o, el reportero y documentalista Hern\u00e1n Zin, asistir\u00e1 presencialmente al festival y ofrecer\u00e1 un coloquio acompa\u00f1ado por la periodista […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[188,326,327,156,189],"class_list":["post-13047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans-fest","tag-cine","tag-cinema","tag-ddhh","tag-derechos-humanos","tag-humans-fest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13050,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13047\/revisions\/13050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionporlajusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}