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In – Differenza Bologna e Forlì, 27 marzo - 5 aprile ‘09 in – differenza 9th international arts and film festival cinema dei diritti umani arte musica workshops www.humanrightsnights.org info: 051 2194808 / 2195311 Human Rights Nights 2009 Promosso da / Supported by Comune di Bologna Cineteca Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna Assemblea Legislativa Regione Emilia-Romagna Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development Comitato Direttivo / Board of Directors Michela Dalla Vite, Gian Luca Farinelli, Justin Frosini, Roberto Grandi, Giulia Grassilli, Andrea Morini, Benedetto Zacchiroli, Paolo Zurla Human Rights Nights 2009 In collaborazione con / In collaboration with Unibocultura, Polo Scientifico-Didattico di Forlì, Collegio Superiore, Facoltà di Agraria, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Facoltà di Economia – Forlì, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche “R. Ruffilli”, SSLMIT – Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori-Forlì, Dipartimento delle Arti Visive, Dipartimento di Chimica “Giaco- mo Ciamician”, Dipartimento di Discipline della Comunicazione, Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo, Diparti- mento di Scienze Giuridiche «Antonio Cicu», Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione “Giovanni Maria Bertin”, Italian Society for Law and Literature-ISLL, Alma Jazz Orchestra Comune di Forlì, Fondo per la Cultura, Romagna Acque, Aegee, Cactus, Koinè, UDU Accademia di Belle Arti, AfricanBamba, Amnesty International, Aven Amenza – Associazione Rumeni di Bologna, BIM Distribuzione, Cassero - gay lesbian center, Centro Cenresig, Centro Sociale Anziani G. Costa, Comune San Giovanni in Persiceto, Comunità Pubblica per Minori di Bologna, D-sign, Fair Trade, Fandango, Fondazione del Cinema di Roma, Freak Andò, Gender Bender Festival, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore srl, Gruppo Editoriale Minerva, I Portici Hotel, Koinema multimedia design, La Linea, La Scuderia, Libreria Lilliput, Locomotiv Club, Ma Maison, Mamolo Caffè, Medici Senza Frontiere, RAI, Raro Video, Tay Ethnic Group, Trix, UNICEF, USACLI, Zoomworx, Scuole Pubbliche: Aldrovandi-Rubbiani, J.M. Keynes, Fioravanti Partnership internazionali / International alliances Human Rights Film Network Soweto Arts Festival (Johannesburg, South Africa) Rwanda Film Festival - Hillywood (Rwanda) Pravo Ljudski / Filmski Festival o Ljudskim Pravima (Human Rights Film Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina) UNESCO Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity Environment and Sustainable Development Network / Mediterranean Environmental Award - UNEP Persone / People Direttore Artistico / Artistic Director Relazioni Università / University Relations Giulia Grassilli Giuditta de Concini Organizzazione Generale Youth & HRs Alice Marzocchi Giulia Grassilli, Laye Gaye Comitato Selezione Film / Film Selection Committee Strutture e Logistica Giulia Grassilli, Laye Gaye, Isabella Malaguti Davide Sorlini Programmazione Cinema / Film programming Poetry Reading Isabella Malaguti, Serena Tagliaferri Andrea Burchianti, Felix Ndayitabi Curatore Arte / Art Curator Segreteria Giurie e Ospitalità Martina Agostini Serena Tagliaferri, Carolina Catapano Curatore Musica / Music Curator Assistenza Impianti Musica Laye Gaye Orazio Metello Orsini, Alastair Cole Comunicazione Pubbliche Relazioni / Communication PR Assistenza Strutture e Logistica Giulia Grassilli, Alice Marzocchi, Martina Agostini Majid N’doye Promozione e Marketing / Promotion and Marketing Archivio Video Alice Marzocchi Carolina Catapano Catalogo HRNs / HRNs Catalogue Ufficio Stampa / Press Office Isabella Malaguti Patrizia Minghetti, Andrea Ravagnan Catalogo Humano / Humano Catalogue Redazione HRNs Live Martina Agostini Luisa Begani Grafica / Design Sottotitoli Elettronici Cinema / Film Electronic Subtitles D-Sign Maura Vecchietti (Supervisor, Consecutiva) Traduttori SSLMIT – Scuola Superiore di Lingue Grafica HRNs Live / HRNs Live Design Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori di Forlì Orazio Metello Orsini Ava Bianca Szene, Francesco Da Re, Giuseppe De Bonis, Guido Maggiore, Letizia Sacchi, Maria Sacco, Grafica Catalogo Humano / Humano Catalogue Design Melania Aloia, Michela Cameli, Marina Falcone Luigi Russo Movimento pellicole / Print logistics Amministrazione / Administrator Ornella Lamberti Davide Pietrantoni Proiezionisti / Projectionists HRNs Cafè Alessio Bonvini, Carlo Citro, Stefano Lodoli, Marco Tay Ethnic Group Morigi, Irene Zangheri Music Partner Responsabile di Sala / Theatre Manager AfricanBamba Nicoletta Elmi Fotografo HRNs / HRNs Photography Personale di Sala / Theatre Staff Lorenzo Burlando Marco Coppi, Lorenza Di Francesco, Ignazio Di Giorgi, Vania Stefanucci, Michela Tombolini Web Partner Koinema Multimedia Design Stagisti / Interns Johns Hopkins University, University of California, Post-production Lab Diskinson College, Denver University ZoomWorx Traduzioni Catalogo / Catalogue Translations Alessandra Carta, Elisa Sette Cazzara Ringraziamenti / Acknowldgements Carmelo Adagio, Adriano (Parco 11 Settembre), Faustin Akafak, Claudia Amico, Amorou, Daniela Asquini, Riccardo Bacchi, Raffaella Baccolini, Silvia Bagni, Nanni Ballestrini, Judith Baluw, Jacopo Barone, Barbara Bastianelli, Giacomo Battiato, B-Boys Bologna, Alessandro Belassai, Luigi Benedetti, Maurizio Bergamaschi, Romina Bertoni, Stefano Bianchini, Franco Berardi Bifo, Big Gora Diop, Federico Biondi, Vittorio Boarini, Cèsar Brie, Daan Bronkhorst, Vittorio Buffatti, Nadia Burci, Lorenzo Burlando, Pier Ugo Calzolari, Sonia Camprini, Pier Luigi Cappucci, Isabella Cascio, Alberto Castelli, Andrea Ceccherelli, Luisa Ceretto, Graziano Cernoia, Mauro Cervellati, Barbara Chiari, Gabriele Ciampichietti Massimo Cittadini, Sergio Cofferati, Constantin Constantino, Mariagrazia Contini, Corrado (Giardini Margherita), Loreno Cremonini, Carlo Cresto Dina, Stefano Curti, Valeria Dalle Donne, Sunil Deepak, Daniele Del Pozzo, Filippo Diaco, Irene Maria Di Palma, Dj Black, Margherita De Michiel, Mattia Di Leva, Monica Donini, Marcella Emiliani, Donatella Fabbroni, Virginia Farina, Rehan Ferdous, Anna Fiaccarini, Giovanna Fiorentini, Flavour Beat, Andrea Forlani, Vera Fortunati, Laura Frasca, Paolo Galassi, Matilde Callari Galli, Steve Giant, Elisa Giovannelli, Giulia (Danza Ventre), Ralph Grillo, Fabrizio Grosoli, Emanuela Guercetti, Giovanna Guerzoni, il Baule, Sonila Kaceli, Peggy Kidney, Elena Kostjukovich, Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, Pina Lalli, Paolo Lazzarini, Andrea Lelli, Paolo Leonardi, Les Amis d’Afrique, Renato Lideo, Light Soljah, Matteo Lippi Bruni, Carlo Lucarelli, Lugi, Guy Lydster, Mago, Mahmoud, Humberto Mancilla, Vanja Mancini, Giacomo Manzoli, Pietro Marchesani, Alessandra Marolla, Gianfranco Marzocchi, Giovanni Mascaro, Davide Masi, Mikkel, Jaroslaw Mikolajewski, Minor Swing Quintet, Mongardino Posse, Valerio Monteventi, Lucio Morelli, Naby, Don Giovanni Nicolini, Charlie Noell, Lia Norelli, Paolo Nori, Riccardo Noury, Lorenzo Osti, Dan Pagoe, Antonello Paladino, Sergio Palmieri, Vito Palmieri, Francesco Pamphili, Marina Pianca, Bruno Pompa, Francesco Privitera, Elfi Reiter, Dagmar Roberts, Lorenzo Roccaro, Andrea Romeo, Gianfranco Rosi, Gianmarco Rossetti, Tita Ruggeri, Taco Ruighaver, Chris Rundle, Michal Rusinek, Francesco Scirè, Chiara Segafredo, Andrea Segrè, Manli Shojaeifard, Aliona Shumakova, Roberto Silvestri, Chiara Sorgato, Nicola Spaccucci, Daniela Spagna Musso, Daniela Squarzoni, Eva Stegeman, Wislawa Szymborska, Taifour Mohamed Mohamed Osman, Tipografia Moderna, Pier Tosi, Trix, Maria Laura Valente, Simonetta Venturini, Viviana Venturoli, Alexandros Yiorkadjis, Todd Waller, Sam Whitsitt, Natasha Wilms, Grazia Zampiccini... ... e tutte le persone che hanno contribuito alla realizzazione e che parteciperanno al festival. Uno speciale ringraziamento e un pensiero forte a Arabi e Waxi di Soweto Arts Festival, che tanto ci hanno insegnato e nutrito di energia, e altrettanto ci mancano... 2009 è dedicato a / is dedicated to Arabi Mocheke e Wandile Zuma (Waxi) Soweto Arts Festival Franco La Polla Università di Bologna 8 in-differenza di Giulia Grassilli Human Rights Nights è un festival di cinema, Human Rights Nights is a festival of cinema, arts arte e musica dedicato ai diritti umani. Attraverso and music dealing with human rights issues. l’espressione artistica di registi, artisti e musicisti Through the art expression of directors, artists and il festival si pone come obiettivo la presentazione musicians, the festival aims to present the different di diverse realtà della società contemporanea. La realities that exist in contemporary society. Cam- videocamera, il sound e la creatività sono gli stru- era, sound and creativity are the means through menti attraverso i quali gli artisti dei diritti umani which the human rights artists share their vision of comunicano la loro visione sul mondo attuale ed the present-day world and express their concerns esprimono la loro preoccupazione e rabbia sullo and their anger towards humanity condition. At the stato presente dell’umanità. Allo stesso tempo, same time, art and cinema, as well as music, allow l’arte e il cinema così come la musica permetto- us to dream, to picture a different world, a bet- no di sognare, di immaginare un mondo diverso, ter world, where no abuses on mankind are com- più bello, dove non ci siano abusi dei diritti umani, mitted. A world where the right of “being human” ma dove il diritto di ‘essere umano’ sia rispettato is both respected and protected. At its 9th edi- e protetto. Human Rights Nights, alla sua 9° edi- tion, Human Rights Nights chose
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