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Associated The Ritzy Cinema Café EventsA week of events tying in with The Ritzy Cinema’s annual HRWIFF, featuring djs and live bands from around the world. The perfect setting for a pre and/or post show drink. For details please check www.picturehouses.co.uk or call Ed Simpson, Events Manager on 07764 852 730 (to put on an event / hire the café / for further information) Education ProgrammeThe festival's FREE education programme is aimed at students age 13+ and their teachers, offering challenging and exciting films and activities to support and inspire dialogue around issues of human rights. Screenings are introduced and followed with an opportunity for young people to discuss the issues raised with the film's director or human rights activists. Programme notes and free Teaching Resources will be available soon on this page. They contain background material and ideas for class work (for Film, Media, Communications, Sociology, Politics, Citizenship). For further information and to reserve free places
Free Screening
Enemies of Happiness
Friday 23 March, 10.30 – 12.15, The Ritzy Cinema Cinema
A documentary about the personal courage and conviction of Malalai Joya, a brave young woman in Afghanistan. In 2005, at the age of 28, she ran in the first democratic election in over 30 years, surviving repeated attempts on her life. Young Danish filmmaker Eva Mulvad followed her as she fought for democracy in a country full of Western soldiers and diplomats, where most voters are illiterate, many women can't leave their children to vote, and warlords use threats and bribes to control the ballots. Download Teaching Notes (PDF file - 2 pages, 160 kb)
Free Screening
A Lesson of Belarusian
Monday 26 March, 10.30 – 12.15, The Ritzy Cinema Cinema
In a school which operates underground, Franek and his classmates study at the same time working as activists. They refuse to give up believing that their country of Belarus will one day be free. Since 1995, when anti – nationalist president Lukashanka came to power and ended democracy, young people have been defying arrest by creating their own underground newspaper and music with activist lyrics. Polish filmmaker Miroslaw Dembinski records their lives and their fearlessness in the face of the state machine. Download Teaching Notes (PDF file - 2 pages, 100 kb)
Film Project
Our World – Our Film
Monday 26 – Wednesday 28 March at the Lambeth City Learning Centre
This year the festival has added an exciting new programme, working with a group of young people from a local secondary school to collaborate with a professional filmmaker to create their own short films. Exploring issues to do with human rights, their finished work will be premiered at the festival preceding the Best of the Fest winners, on 30 March at The Ritzy Cinema. Our World – Our Film is a co–production between the Festival, Lambeth City Learning Centre and filmmaker Duco Tellegen, whose previous two films (Living Rights, Behind Closed Eyes) screened at HRWIFF. Royal CourtRoyal Court International Playwrights Theatre Meets Film Throughout the last decade the Royal Court Theatre has been involved in the development and production of new plays by international playwrights from all parts of the world. The Royal Court Theatre’s International Playwrights Programme has collaborated with the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival since 2002, introducing specially commissioned short human rights plays from over a dozen countries. Two of these plays will be presented before related screenings. For more information on the programme, contact the Royal Court Theatre Box Office on 020 7565 5000 or visit www.royalcourttheatre.com/international These plays were commissioned with the support of the Genesis Foundation and BBC World Service Drama. |
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