International Week of Justice Festival Katyn by Andrzej Wajda Other Key Films (Poland & UK/2007/feature) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) has been an affirmation Film Festival Festival Theme: Dreams and Nightmares Photo Exhibition of the universality and indivisibility of human rights. The 60th anniversary of UDHR on 10th December 2008 and the World Dignity Day on 5th December Over 50 Screenings Four minutes by Chris Kraus Katyn describes the tragedy of a generation. The 2008 taken together provide the context for Amnesty International India to (/2008/feature) film follows the story of four Polish families Festival Theme: Behind the Bars at WWF Gallery launch a week of human rights activities from 5th to 10th December in the WINNER whose lives are torn apart when, at the outset of Best Narrative Feature Jenny is young but her life is over. She has WWII, a great number of Polish soldiers (who are form of International Week of Justice Festival (IWJF). IWJF draws upon Opening Film Award been locked up in a women's prison for also fathers, husbands and brothers) fall into 5-th to 10th December 2008 Amnesty International's Art for Activism endeavour in order to promote Peace on Earth Film killing someone, and she would do it again. Trouble Sleeping the hands of Soviet troops and later brutally human rights awareness and action through creative, performative art with Festival 2008 Buried beneath her impenetrable facade, First become victims of Stalinism. active involvement of artists, educators, cultural organisations, youth and (UK/2007/feature) however, Jenny has an invaluable musical Jointly curated by Parthiv Shah, CMAC and Amnesty media. Through international cinema, photo-exhibition, theatre, music, talks OFFICLAL SELECTION Screening by Robert Rae Edinburgh International talent. When an 80-year-old piano teacher International India, the exhibition is a collection of and discussions IWJF takes up the key concerns of right to life with dignity, a Film Festival 2008 Traude Krueger, discovers the girl's terrible images contributed by some of the finest world free of torture and fear, freedom of expression and non-violence Festival Theme: Out of Place in secret, her raging brutality and her dreams, Talabghar (The Suitor) by Khaleq A'Lil photographers in India and parts of South Asia. enshrined in the UDHR. India Islamic Cultural Centre WINNER she makes it her mission to re-transform BAFTA Best New Work (Afghanistan/1969/feature) India 5th December 2008 (Fiction) 2008 Jenny into the musical wonderkid she once Fesitval Theme: Neighbourhood Spotlight The main themes of IWJF are: was. Key Contributors The Vanishing Act: Death Penalty, Disappearances A powerful drama based on real experiences of a group of WINNER Nasser, a confidence trickster and crook, falls in Sohrab Hura (India) Dreams and Nightmares: Conflict, Borders, Ideology, Dictatorships, Forgive, Forget Not by Pranay Limbu Palestinian refugees in Edinburgh, Scotland, who do what BAFTA New Talent Award love with a beautiful young student, who comes Suvendu Chatterji (India) Citizenship, War on Terror (Nepal/2007/documentary) they must to survive. Despite the watchful eye of the 2008 from a middle-class family in Kabul. With his Swapan Nayak (India) Out of Place: Displacement, Evictions security services, they have found a way to get on, but Festival Theme: Special Tribute to Journalists and affected prestigious behaviour, he attempts to NOMINATION Artists Sonia Jabbar (India) Behind the Bars: Prison Diaries, Trials, Tribunals and Testimonies Ahmed's arrival changes everything for ever. The film impress her father. However she is involved in Parthiv Shah (India) Why Democracy? BAFTA Best New Actor A journalist fights for survival in a Nepali features real life immigrants as actors and as writers. 2008 her own revolution. Harikrishna Katragadda (India) Special Tribute to Journalists and Artists: Freedom of Expression barrack. The film provides a mirror to the terrible times just past in Nepal, during the In Search of Gandhi by Lalit Vachani Sara Rahbar (Iran) Neighbourhood Spotlight: Afghanistan, Burma and Tibet Principal Cast: Hassan Naama, Alia Alzougbi, Waseem BAFTA Special Salima Hashmi (Pakistan) Commendation for Writing people's war' and the state's reaction to the (India/2007/documentary) 2008 Maoist movement. Festival Theme: Why Democracy Inder Salim (Kashmir) Anchored in the worldwide experience of defence of fundamental freedoms, Daniel Pepper (USA) politics of exclusion, impunity, redressal and justice, the festival speaks in Closing Film Gowhar Fazili (Kashmir) the voices of prisoners, journalists, artists, lawyers, youth and children. Deadline by Katy Chevigny In the early decades of the twentieth century Ira Madiyama (August Sun) & Kirsten Johnson Mahatma Gandhi's legacy of non-violent Abdul Rahman Roslan(DRIK- Bangladesh) WINNER Shahzad Noorani (DRIK- Bangladesh) Neighbourhood Spotlight highlights the issues of conflict in Afghanistan, (/2003/feature) Silver Award, Las Palmas (USA/2004/documentary) revolution or Satyagraha inspired a mass Film Festival 2004 Fesitval Theme: Vanishing Act movement of millions of Indians to rise up K.M. Asad (DRIK- Bangladesh) Burma and Tibet, the right to protest, fair trials, freedom of expression and Shahidul Alam (DRIK- Bangladesh) by What would you do if you discovered that against the British colonial state and other freedoms in the neighbourhood. WINNER First Festival Theme: Dreams and Nightmares thirteen people slated for execution had successfully agitate for the establishment of a Themes Best Actress democratic and free India. In 2007, the country Special Tribute to Journalists and Artists focuses on their struggles, their Las Palmas Film Festival been found innocent? Deadline details the Metamorphosis India Islamic Cultural Centre celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its rights as human rights defenders and the fragility of freedom of expression. Screening 2004 gripping drama of state's clemency hearings Life under Conflict existence as an independent nation. But what 10th December 2008 and is a complelling look inside America's Hanging WINNER does it actually mean to live in the world's Running through the heart of the festival is the desire to lend sanctity to the in Based on true incidents, this film revolves around three prisons. Uprooting stories that unfold simultaneously. During two scorching Special Mention Fribourg largest democracy? right to physical and mental integrity. Thus two Talk Shows, focusing Film Festival 2004 Dissent respectively on Freedom of Expression and Torture, are key sites of India August days, three different groups of people thrown into the The Windhorse by Paul Wagner Machuca by Andrés Wood Disappearances participation. The festival showcases a theatrical performance on the heat of the war, face different experiences due to WINNER (USA/2008/feature) Fading Hope, Child Labour (Chile, ,UK, France/2004/feature) evolution of terror laws in India to further amplify the theme. circumstances beyond their control. They have to continue FIPRESCI Award Festival Theme: Neighbourhood Spotlight Hashimpura, Wounds (courtesy Foundation for Universal Responsibility Festival Theme: Dreams and Nightmares to exist in a society that is traumatized by nearly twenty Singapore Film Festival Burma, Homelessness years of war between the Sinhalese government forces, and 2004 of H.H. The Dalai Lama) In 1973, in Santiago of Chile, President Salvador IWJF aspires to create wider socio-political consciousness amongst college, Windhorse is a searing political drama.that Allende, the first Socialist President Gujarat, Miill Workers university and school students in key cities and towns of India by deepening rebel movement from the Tamil community fighting for self Kashmir, Every Day Life determination WINNER rips the veil off Western idealism about democratically elected in a Latin-American the element of art and rights in education. The festival will be followed by Grand Jury Prize Tibet. This movie, starring Tibetan exiles who country, and the principal of the Saint Patrick Art and Film Tours in different parts of the country. IWJF is an invitation to a Cinemanila Film Festival Principal Cast: Peter D'Almeida, Nimmi Harasgama, 2004 are not professional actors, was shot with a School, Father McEnroe (Ernesto Malbran) make shared platform where the possibilities and impossibilities of human rights documentarian's eye for everyday detail. a trial of integration between students of the find room for debate, dialogue and intervention. upper and lower classes. Meanwhile conflicts and coup attempts hover dangerously.

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