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Cinema and Human Rights Festival

16th Cinema and Human Rights Festival

For another year, it will set its sights on issues that put the world and society in danger such as climate change and poverty.

Thanks to cinema, we can discover stories that we weren’t aware of and take a deeper look into issues that we didn’t know they existed. Many of these films have been used to challenge situations that breach human rights and, for 16 years, we have had the chance to watch them at the Cinema and Human Rights Festival. For a week and half, various cinemas will be screening films that talk about issues that threaten the world and society we live in such as climate change, democratic development, fundamental rights, freedom of speech, poverty, historical memory or the rise of the far right, neo-fascism and many other topics. As well as film screenings, there will be master classes, panel debates, performances and film screenings at universities and detention centres.

The Cinema and Human Rights Festival will run from 14 to 25 November, at different times. Activities will mainly be held at Cinemes Texas, but also at Filmoteca de Catalunya, where you will have the chance to see a retrospective in homage to Llorenç Soler. The first film to be screened will be China’s Artful Dissident, about the Chinese activist Badiucao, who will be coming to Barcelona to talk about the political situation there. The Ukrainian filmmaker and activist Oleg Sentsov, who has been freed from a Russian prison as part of a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia, will also be taking part in the festival.

Tickets for the screening have various prices. You can find all of the information on the Cinema and Human Rights Festival website.

Publication date: Wednesday, 06 November 2019
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