Film Screening
To celebrate the International Human Rights Day, the Delegation of the European Union and the United Nations in Pakistan are pleased to announce that the 5th edition of the ‘Human Rights Reel’ Film Festival is to take place from December 1 to 10 December 2019.
Goethe-Institut Pakistan is pleased to partner with the EU and bring this Festival to Goethe-Institut Karachi!
The 5th edition of the Human Rights Reel Film Festival (HRRFF) is a presentation of over 27 films and documentaries and a forum to exchange ideas on human rights issues around the globe. The 5th edition will feature themes such as freedom of expression, gender equality, minority rights, and access to justice, climate change, minority rights, domestic violence and death penalty.
One of the main shared goals of ‘Human Rights Reel Film Festival’ is to increase knowledge of human rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights among Pakistani audience especially students through a creative medium like film. The aim of this festival is to create cross-cultural understanding and stimulate discussions on global human rights issues with students.
From 2nd to 7th December (except for the 3rd of December) we will screen a selection of 9 films for the Karachi audience including short films and feature films in the auditorium of Goethe-Institut Karachi.
The event is free and open to All!
Join us and bring your friends!
Synopsis of the films:
2nd Dec-Monday
7pm Manta Ray Phuttiphong Aroonpheng / Thailand , France & China / 2018 /105’
On the shores of Thailand, where thousands of Rohingya have drowned, a fisherman finds an unconscious man. Nursing him back to health, he builds a friendship with this silent stranger... Awarded the Orizzonti Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival, this first feature film by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng plunges the viewer into dark depths, an initiation story accompanied by a powerful visual and auditory atmosphere. Undoubtedly, a great filmmaker is born.
4th Dec-Wednesday
7pm Delphine and Carol Callisto Mc Nulty / France & Switzerland / 2019/ 69’
An Arte film Famous French-Swiss actress Delphine Seyrig had more than one facet. With Carole Roussopoulos, her compatriot and inseparable friend, the actress crossed the 1970s with a camera in her hand, celebrating feminism, insolence and humour. Callisto McNulty, Carole Roussopoulos' granddaughter, pays a vibrant tribute to two free, joyful and radical rebels who have consistently defended their freedom as women and artists.
8:30pm A Dark Place Javier Luque Martinez / Austria / 2018/ 57'
Produced by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), A Dark Place gives voice to female journalists who have been victims of cyber violence for simply doing their job and defending freedom of expression. In Turkey, Azerbaijan, Latin America or Western Europe, each situation is unique, but the same patterns are repeated over and over again. A deeply topical issue, this documentary pays tribute to those women who continue, bravely, to resist.
5th Dec-Thursday
7pm After Tomorrow Cyril Dion & Laure Noualhat / France/ 2017/ 72'
Two years after the phenomenal success of the documentary Demain, Cyril Dion looks back at the projects the film inspired. He is accompanied by Laure Noualhat, a renowned investigator and sceptic of the ability of micro-initiatives to have any real impact in the face of climate change. Their humorous confrontation pushes them to their limits: what works, what fails? What if all this forces us to invent a new narrative for humanity?
8:30pm Gender X Manolo Ty / Pakistan, Netherlands / 2018 / 24’
Gender X portrays the life and challenges of transgender women in Pakistan today. During a photo shoot, the photographer Manolo Ty, meets the successful transgender model and activist Inaya in Islamabad. This is the beginning of many interviews with Inaya and other transgender women about their self-image and vulnerability. After yet another brutal attack, one of the interviewees wants to fight for justice. She decides to file a police report for the first time.
6th Dec-Friday
7pm trustWHO Lilian Franck / Germany, Austria, Africa / 2018 / 85'
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the independent international body responsible for public health. International, certainly... but independent? Produced by ARTE, this in-depth investigation raises key questions about the ambiguous role played by the pharmaceutical lobby and takes a look, in times of multilateralism, at the insidious influence of States and private donors within international organizations in Geneva.
8:30pm Another Day Of Life Raúl De La Fuente & Damian Nenow / Poland , Spain , Germany , Hungary & Belgium / 2018 / 85’
Warsaw, 1975. Ryszard Kapuscinksi is a brilliant and courageous journalist, as well as an idealist. Through sheer determination, he succeeds in convincing his press agency to send him to Angola during the civil war. Following this journey into the heart of hell, Kapuscinski is forever changed and becomes a writer. This powerful film, which blends animation and interviews, questions the role of the journalist and the limits of their power. An Arte film
7th Dec-Saturday
7pm Ghost Fleet Jeffrey Waldron & Shannon Service / United States / 2018 / 88’
Do you know where the shrimp you buy at the supermarket comes from? If it’s Southeast Asia then it may have been caught by slaves. Led by Patima, a woman of unwavering determination, a small group of activists devote themselves, body and soul, to the fight against human trafficking. At present, they have already enabled 4,000 people, reduced to the status of modern ghosts, to return to their families after years of silence.
8:30pm Still Recording Ghiath Ayoub & Saeed Al Batal / Lebanon / 2018 / 123’
In Still Recording, a film-testimony of virtuosic editing, we meet Saeed and Milad who, for the past four years, have been recording events in Eastern Ghouta, at the heart of hell. As death haunts the streets of Douma, this film pays tribute not only to the power of cinema but also to the courage of those who risk their lives to document massacres. A prize-winner in Venice, this film is created by the non-profit organization Bidayyat, which is responsible for the most memorable films of Syria's young generation.
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