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A community celebration of global culture
Belfast Film Festival
www.respectfilmfest.com
INTRODUCTION
I would firstly like to extend a investigate, and act as an A Message from our Patron
warm welcome to all those advocate in the issues and
filmmakers who will be debates that are simplified and
I would like to say that I am honoured to be patron of the
participating in Belfast's first marginalised by mainstream film
Respect Belfast Human Rights Film Festival. As the world
dedicated human rights film and broadcast media. This will be
faces many political uncertainties, it is of vital importance
festival in what is sure to be facilitated via screenings and
that an event, such as this, can empower, educate and
another truly momentous Q&As with academics from both
advocate for those without a voice.
occasion. A big thank you to all Queen's and Ulster Universities
our volunteers who have given who are considered experts
As a country, we understand what it is to migrate. We
their time and commitment in within their own particular fields.
departed this country in millions to go all around the world;
making it all happen. I would like Moreover, our programme of
we know what political asylum means and platforms such
to offer my appreciation to Féile screenings will further offer a
as these can galvanise the response needed to ensure a
an Phobail, Fáilte Feirste Thiar, An wider understanding of human
more compassionate policy from our governments.
Chultúrlann, St Mary’s University rights subjects, such as,
College, Belfast Film Festival and Immigration, Asylum, Woman's
Given the appalling conditions faced by many under the
Film Hub NI for their partnership Rights, War & Conflict,
Irish 'Direct Provision' system, a strategy intent in
over this last two years. A major Healthcare, Austerity & Disability
dissuading others from seeking asylum, we ought to
theme of this year's festival is the Issues, We hope you can join us in
highlight the needs of those facing political persecution
increasing homelessness crisis, making this great event a
within their own countries in order to stimulate a wider
reflected in our closing film, cornerstone for the promotion of
international response. In a week dedicated to many issues
Apollo House. We ourselves face human rights for many years to
around human rights, it is imperative that we engage with
many obstacles within a post come.
what this wonderful festival has to offer.
conflict society, a number of
documentaries will address, Seán Murray - Festival Director
Stephen Rea – Festival Patron
All screenings are non ticket events except for the opening and closing
gala which can be acquired on www.respectfilmfest.com
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OPENING NIGHT GALA
Director - Callum Macrae
Ireland / 2018 / 1 h 46m THE BALLYMURPHY PRECEDENT
ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE - 01 AUGUST / 7PM / £5
Q&A - DIRECTOR CALLUM MACRAE
The Ballymurphy Precedent will tell the real story of the shooting of the Troubles. With the forensic accuracy of the last film, No Fire Zone,
10 unarmed Catholics and the death of an 11th at the hands of the the investigation highlights this shocking episode. The film will reveal
British Army in Belfast in 1971. This is a massacre that few have heard new evidence which, if it had been known, might have prevented the
of, yet evidence suggests it was one of the most significant events in massacre that followed five months later on Bloody Sunday.
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CLOSING NIGHT GALA
Director - Zahara Moufid
Ireland / 2017 / 1 h 4m SHELTER ME: APOLLO HOUSE
AN CULTÚRLANN (THEATRE) - 10 AUGUST / 7PM / £5
FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH FILM DIRECTOR JIM SHERIDAN,
BRENDAN OGLE AND DEAN SCURRY
As the homeless problem in Ireland seemed to go unnoticed by those They broke into and took over an empty government building - Apollo
in power, housing activists, celebrities such as Oscar-nominated Film House - in Dublin City Centre and were surprised and gratified at the
Director Jim Sheridan, Oscar winner singer Glen Hansard, Hozier and reaction of the public
others came together and took the law into their own hands.
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Director - Larry Tung CHILDREN OF THE DRUM: THE Director - Bertha Gaztelumendi VOLAR
LEGACY OF BLACK JOURNALISTS IN
US / 2017 / 58m APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA Spain / 2017 / 1hr 11m (FLYING)
AN CULTÚRLANN (TAISCEAMAR) - 06 AUGUST / 2PM / FREE AN CULTÚRLANN (TAISCEAMAR) - 06 AUGUST / 4PM / FREE
‘Children of Drum traces developments in South African journalism from the This film gathers nine survivors of gender violence, among whom there is an
1950s when Drum magazine covered the struggle against the racist Apartheid architect, a university professor, a cleaning lady and a student. They all share a
regime, to the political changes since then that have affected the current state weekend in the countryside, in the heart of the Basque Country. That is where
of journalism in South Africa. The documentary begins with the work of we gather their testimonies, their conversations on their past of violence as
pioneering investigative journalists and writers like Henry Nxumalo and Can well as a message of hope and their experience overcoming what they had
Themba as well as photographers like Peter Magubane and Jurgen gone through.
Schadeberg. It includes personal insights by other journalists who worked with
the early pioneers and continued after them.
Director - Jim Kroft & Bastian Fischer THE MARCH Director - Yves Dimant & Dani Velázquez
Germany / 2017 / 1hr 29m OF HOPE LA JUNGLE
Belguim / 2018 / 1hr 05m
AN CULTÚRLANN (THEATRE) - 06 AUGUST / 2PM / FREE AN CULTÚRLANN (THEATRE) - 06 AUGUST / 4PM / FREE
Inverting the parameters of what a road movie should be, The March of Hope, The Jungle at Calais was the biggest refugee settlement in Western Europe.
tackles the plight of refugees from the most unlikely perspective: a little yellow Forgotten or neglected by those responsible for protecting the lives and
van.The documentary is a deeply personal and emotional perspective on the human rights of refugees, the burning question at The Jungle was always:
subject of human rights, and challenges the thresholds of how a humanitarian “Where is everyone?” This documentary film records the facts and shows the
crisis can be tackled in film. Rather than becoming a film on refugees, it became truth, bringing us face to face with contemporary political surrealism through
a living document to the power of the human spirit in unspeakable the sceptical reflections of refugees and volunteers and the amazing force of
circumstances. “The March of Hope” is a celebration of everything which makes civil mobilisation.
us a human, and a stinging rebuke in film to the xenophobia growing in Europe.
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Director - Henry Rincón HERO Director - José Carlos Teixeira ON
Colombia / 2016 / 1hr 30m STEPS US / 2017 / 1 h 10m EXILE:
AN CULTÚRLANN (TAISCEAMAR) - 06 AUGUST / 6PM / FREE AN CULTÚRLANN (THEATRE) - 06 AUGUST / 8PM /£5
10 year old Eduardo lost a a leg in the Colombian war, however, the has not let Q&A - DIRECTOR JOSÉ CARLOS TEIXEIRA
this hold him back. In the peasant household in which he lives, the landlord
named Lucio makes his life difficult at every turn. However, together with his As a quiet meditation, "On Exile" follows the moving testimonies of Muslim
music teacher, Eduardo and his friends will overcome several obstacles to refugees from Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Sudan, resettled in the US. This
achieve their mission, to participate in the children's soccer tournament unconventional documentary film creates intimate psychological portraits,
without being discovered. restores the refugees’ voices, and allows them full personal and political
agency. As the American critic and journalist Steven Litt puts it, this is “a
remarkably beautiful document that peels away layers of cliche and
stereotypes to reveal the radiant humanity of Teixeira’s subjects, who come
from countries torn by civil war or the fight against ISIS, the Islamic State.”
Director - Roberto Manhães Reis
Director - Bartosz Staszewski GILDA BRASILEIRO -
Poland / 2017 / 1hr 15m
ARTICLE 18 & Viola Scheuerer
Brazil / 2018 / 1hr 30m AGAINST OBLIVION
AN CULTÚRLANN (THEATRE) - 06 AUGUST / 6PM / FREE AN CULTÚRLANN (TAISCEAMAR) - 07 AUGUST / 2PM / FREE
Article 18 of the Polish Constitution talks about the protection of marriage as a Gilda Brasileiro discovers documents about an illegal slave-trading point in the
union between a man and a woman. This fact has been used as a weapon by Brazilian rainforest. Whereas none of the locals want to remember the past, the
those in Poland who are opposed to formalizing same-sex unions. After a daughter of a Jewish woman and Afro-Brazilian man finds it unacceptable.
quarter century of freedom, not only are same-sex marriages still prohibited, Despite the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, hundreds of thousands of
but there hasn’t been any sort of regulation of civil unions whatsoever. In his enslaved Africans continued to be taken to Brazil. A strong woman goes out in
film, Bartosz Staszewski tries to find out why this is the case. search of the largest coffee-growing region in the 19th century.
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Director - Sarah Gavron Director - Anja Reiss TRUTH
SUFFRAGETTE
UK / 2015 / 1hr 26m Germany / 2017 / 1hr 25m DETECTIVES
AN CULTÚRLANN (THEATRE) - 07 AUGUST / 2PM / FREE AN CULTÚRLANN (THEATRE) - 07 AUGUST / 4PM / FREE
Ballybeen Women's Centre along with Footprints Women's Centre are Almost in real time victims of war and crimes nowadays use their mobile
collaborating in a cross community project and celebrating100 years of devices to film and photograh their experiences. International investigators
women's suffrage. This film centres on the early feminist movement striving for collect this evidence for criminal prosecution. We document their research on
equality. cultural heritage in Mali, the “Black Friday” bomb attacks in Gaza, the war in
Ukraine and the search for mass graves in Columbia. “Truth Detectives”
documents how new technological developments are helping to bring to
justice those who violate human rights.
Director - Seán Murray BROKEN
Director - Claus Räfle Ireland / 2013 / 13m LIVES
THE INVISIBLES
Germany / 2017 / 1hr 50m AN CULTÚRLANN (TAISCEAMAR) - 07 AUGUST / 6PM / FREE
AN CULTÚRLANN (TAISCEAMAR) - 07 AUGUST / 4PM / FREE
Q&A - FILM PARTICIPANTS
Four young Jews survive the Nazi Terror in Berlin by becoming invisible in plain Examining the lives of four people who have been affected by exceptional
sight. Berlin, February 1943: The NS regime declares the Reich's capital “free of traumatic experiences. During the conflict the community of West Belfast
Jews.” The Invisibles tells the stories of four of these contemporary witnesses. experienced high levels of social and economic exclusion that continues to this
The dramatic re-enactments are supplemented with impressive interviews day. Broken Lives looks at the phenomenon of transgenerational trauma and
with the actual people whose lives inspired this film. The two levels blend the efforts of dedicated community workers who strive to create opportunities
together into an intensive, emotionally moving feature film. and inspire change for a growing number of victims.
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Director - Leila Nadya Sadat NEVER AGAIN: FORGING A Director - Scottish Doc Institute (Various) SYRIAN
CONVENTION FOR CRIMES
US / 2017 / 46m AGAINST HUMANITY UK / 2017 / 1hr 16 STORIES
AN CULTÚRLANN (THEATRE) - 07 AUGUST / 6PM / FREE AN CULTÚRLANN (THEATRE) - 07 AUGUST / 8PM / £5
Following World War II, an international tribunal convicted Nazi leaders of What is it like to be in exile in a country that borders home? This documentary
crimes against humanity. Today, however, some seventy years later, the world anthology, produced in workshops held in Beirut, Amman and Istanbul in 2017,
still lacks a global treaty for the prevention and punishment of such crimes reflects the diverse experiences of Syrian people displaced by the conflict.
despite their ongoing perpetration. This film delivers stark testimony from
survivors of these continuing crimes—as well as calls from international In a cinematic journey through different geographic and emotional landscapes
experts working to remedy this gap in international law and justice. we see how, in the words of Syrian author Yassin al-Haj Saleh, “the personal
has become public and political… The public and political has become
personal”.
Director - Pangur Bán Cultural Group. TWO SHORT Director - Mark Michel
SANDGIRL
Ireland / 2018 / 45m FILMS Germany / 2017 / 1hr 25m
AN CULTÚRLANN (TAISCEAMAR) - 07 AUGUST / 8PM / FREE AN CULTÚRLANN (TAISCEAMAR) - 08 AUGUST / 4PM / FREE
Two short films will be screened as part of a joint project between Pangur Bán A young author who can neither walk nor speak invites us into her unique world.
Cultural Group and Relapse Pictures. The project is the result of a twelve week A world of poetry and subtlety. We discover a place where the gravity of physical
guerrilla filmmaking crash course which combined tutorials on the history of existence is overcome by the weightlessness of imagination. A documentary
activist filmmaking with a practical hands on approach to the basics of essay about freedom and perception.
filmmaking.
The screening will be attended by the films participants.
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Director - Ragnar Keil BEING Director - Loraine Blumenthal THE MAYOR'S
Canada / 2018 / 1h RACHEL Germany / 2018 / 1hr 20m RACE
AN CULTÚRLANN (TAISCEAMAR) - 08 AUGUST / 6PM / FREE AN CULTÚRLANN (THEATRE) - 08 AUGUST / 8PM / £5
Q&A -DIRECTOR RAGNAR KEIL AND WRITER JESSE HEFFRING A mixed-race child, Marvin grew up with his single mother in Bristol's ghettos in
the UK with prostitution, violence and poverty on a daily occurrence. Ever
A documentary about youth with developmental disabilities struggling to since, Marvin had the desire to go against the injustices he experienced and
mount a play about their lives. decides to run for mayor. In a tight race, he must accept his loss in front of
rolling cameras. Though feeling personally ashamed, losing for him has a
greater significance as the city has a history of treating its black immigrants
like no other. Despite his doubts, Marvin decides to run again. Will he manage
to break the circle of history and become the first mayor of African decent of a
city in Europe?
Director - Aida Begic NEVER Director - Multiple BEYOND BORDERS: STORIES
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey / 2017 / 1h 37m LEAVE ME GERMANY/ 2017 / 1h 19m OF FREEDOM & FRIENDSHIP
AN CULTÚRLANN (THEATRE) - 08 AUGUST / 6PM / FREE AN CULTÚRLANN (TAISCEAMAR) - 09 AUGUST / 2PM / FREE
After his mother dies, ISA (14) is sent to an orphanage for Syrian refugees in Films for refugee children, for their friends and for everyone else. This creative
Şanlıurfa, Turkey. There he makes an uneasy friendship with AHMAD (11) and documentary (episode film) without dialogue, takes the viewer on a journey
MOTAZ (10). Although the three boys are very different in their temperament into children's worlds of different countries, real and dreamed. In these
and desires and not particularly fond of each other, they find a common cinematic miniatures, which were designed by filmmakers from countries such
interest: they all want to leave the orphans’ home and start a new life. In face as Syria, Iran, Jordan, Germany and Colombia, the whole emotional range of
of adversity, the boys are forced to start relying on each other. The dangers that refugee children is renegotiated.
threatened to ruin their lives will give them a reason to find love, friendship
and hope. Directors: Sandra Dajani, Nazgol Emami, Johanna Bentz, Madeleine
Dallmeyer, Camilo Colmenares, Diana Menestrey, Khaled Nawal
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Director - Sara Reginella START UP A WAR: PSYCOLOGY Director - Deirdre O'Neill & Michael Wayne THE ACTING
Italy / 2018 / 1hr 11m OF A CONFLICT UK / 2017 / 1hr 18m CLASS
AN CULTÚRLANN (TAISCEAMAR) - 09 AUGUST / 4PM / FREE AN CULTÚRLANN (THEATRE) - 09 AUGUST / 6PM / FREE
"Start Up a War. Psychology of a conflict " is a documentary about the point of Q&A - DIRECTOR DEIRDRE O'NEILL CHAIRED BY DR STEVE BAKER
view of a psychologist, who leaves her office in order to go to a war front, in
Donbass region. By understanding those mechanisms that lie behind the When Tom Stocks, a young man from Bolton has to turn down a chance to
outbreak of a war, with unpublished images and documents, a psychological study at the East 15 drama school because he cannot afford the fees, he sets up
model is brought to light. a campaign to highlight socio-economic exclusion in the arts.
Director - Dasa Raimanova
POLYLAND
Slovakia / 2018 / 1h 11m
AN CULTÚRLANN (TAISCEAMAR) - 09 AUGUST / 6PM / FREE
POLYLAND gives a voice to three strong female characters from different
minorities in Poland and explores the nuances of how it feels to be black,
Muslim or LGBTQ+ in the most homogenous country in an ever more right -
leaning Europe. All three were all born in Poland and currently are citizens of
Wroclaw, the biggest city in Western Poland. Ania, Miriam and Elmelda seek to
be seen, not as “the other”, but as a part of Polish society.
18 RESPECT BELFAST HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL 19Director - Sol Papadopoulos UNSUNG HERO: THE
UK / 2018 / 1h 16m JACK JONES STORY
AN CULTÚRLANN (TAISCEAMAR) - 10 AUGUST / 2PM / FREE
‘Unsung Hero – The Jack Jones Story’ is a documentary on one of the greatest
British figures of the past century – a man who exercised more power over
government economic policy than any other trades union leader in British
history. Jones took on four of the great evils of modern times: poverty,
Director - Cahal McLaughlin IT STAYS WITH YOU: USE OF FORCE fascism, worker exploitation and pensioner poverty - and took them on with so
UK / 2017 / 50m BY UN PEACEKEEPERS IN HAITI much conviction that at one point, the public voted him the most powerful
man in Britain. The life of Jack Jones mirrors the story of the 20th century - a
AN CULTÚRLANN (THEATRE) - 09 AUGUST / 8PM / £5 man whose like we may never see again.
Q&A - DIRECTOR CAHAL MCLAUGHLIN
Between 2005-2007 UN peacekeeping troops carried out several raids on Cité
Soleil, a severely economically depressed neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince.
Although the raids were specifically targeted against leaders of criminal gangs,
scores of civilians were killed and many more injured. This film returns to Cité
Soleil to examine the impact of those raids on the community and to find out
how survivors of the raids have fared in the ten years since. The film is
produced using participatory practices, where the survivors retain control over
their own contribution and were consulted during the filmmaking process and Director - Veysi Altay
prior to public viewing. BÎR (WELL)
Turkey / 2018 / 1hr 03m
AN CULTÚRLANN (TAISCEAMAR) - 10 AUGUST / 4PM / FREE
In the 1990s many people in Kurdistan were taken into custody and interrogated
under torture; their killers disposed of the bodies by throwing them out of
helicopters, or burying them in acid-filled wells. Thousands were
murdered/disappeared by paramilitary forces that were financed and supported
by the state, though they have always stuck to the line: “We didn’t do it.” The
documentary ‘BÎR’ looks at the case of seven people, including four children, who
were disappeared from the town of Kerboran [Dargeçit] in 1995, and the story of
their families’ tireless search for their bones.
20 RESPECT BELFAST HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL 21SHORTS SHORTS SHORTS
RBHRFF SHORT FILM COMPETITION PROGRAMME 1 PROGRAMME 2 PROGRAMME 3
12 -2PM 2 - 4PM 4 - 6PM
An Cultúrlann (Theatre)
will be hosting the
RBHRFF Short Film
Competition, which aims
to promote a wider
understanding of Human
Rights subjects, such as,
Immigration, Asylum,
Woman's Rights, War &
Conflict, Mental Health,
LGBT Rights, Workers Rights,
Environmental Concerns,
Healthcare, Austerity &
Disability Issues.
22 RESPECT BELFAST HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL 23WEDNESDAY 8TH AUGUST WEDNESDAY 8TH AUGUST
SHORTS (DRAMA) PROGRAMME 1 SHORTS (DRAMA) PROGRAMME 1
MAMAN SOORI’S CASE BEHIND THE DOOR: JOLA'S STORY INFILL & FULL SET REPEAL
Director: Hossein Hejrati Director: Michael Adeyeye Director: Hai Dao Director: Karl Callan
Duration: 18m. Duration: 8m. Duration: 14m. Duration: 13m.
A lonely elderly woman has her living Jola has been trafficked from her The story of an illegally immigrating The story of 3 pregnant women and
jeopardised by bad customer home country of Nigeria since she heavily pregnant woman who is the difficulties they encounter in the
reviews. was a child. A story of loss, struggle stuck between the ethical boundary face of abortion laws in Ireland.
and liberation. of being honest and being dishonest.
ANYWHERE WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD XAVIER BOBBI & SHEELAGH
Director: Aleksandar Aleksic Director: Anni Sultany Director: Giovanni Coda Director: Barb Taylor
Duration: 10m. Duration: 11m. Duration: 8m. Duration: 12m.
An outcast is caught by a border Shot during the G-20 summit 2017 in April 20, 2017 - Avenue des Champs- Bobbi meets a mythological creature
policeman and has 15 minutes to Hamburg, Germany: a fictional Elysées. whose ancient battle for acceptance
persuade him to let him go find his dystopia, that highlights the possible During an attack, police officer helps Bobbi overcome her own fears
outcast family before the back up long-term effects of today's Xavier, among his injured fellow- of being herself - a young lesbian.
arrives. decisions and politics of the nations officers, was shot dead. This film is a (Animation)
in power. dramatisation of the open letter
written by his partner, Etienne
Cardlels.
LEFTOVER 2ND CLASS
Director: Meric Demiray Director: Jimmy Olsson
Duration: 9m. Duration: 14m.
A young boy leaves home to join a Charlotte is the new 2nd class
peace rally. On his way, he starts to teacher and when she is out with her
experience strange things. Images friends she gets attacked by a nazi.
around him slowly turn into a She later discovers that one of her
nightmare. students is the son of that nazi.
REPEAL
XAVIER
24 RESPECT BELFAST HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL 25WEDNESDAY 8TH AUGUST WEDNESDAY 8TH AUGUST
SHORTS (DRAMA) PROGRAMME 2 SHORTS (DRAMA) PROGRAMME 2
CHURCH STREET, WE WERE THERE 2 BY 2 TWO FOR ONE RUXI: THE ROAD TO SLAVERY:
Director: David Donar Director: Mark Playne Director: Sol Martínez Director: Hendrik Ehlers Duration:
Duration: 5m. Duration: 18m. Duration: 6m. 14m.
A thriving center for African- 10 directors from 10 countries were A man travels to the sea and Ruxi's parents left for England when
American commerce in downtown each asked to make a film to foster remembers his missing wife because she was very young. Since then Ruxi
Anderson, South Carolina, from peace between the Armenian & of the civil-military dictatorship of has looked after her Grandfather and
(circa) 1907 until 1980, is torn down Turkish people. 2 by 2' is the British Argentina in 1976. her sister, Andrea. Just as the family
to make way for a parking lot. contribution to the project. fall on hard times, Ana comes into
(Animation) Ruxi's life, with a promise of a job in
England...
CONCRETE THE CHAPTER OF IONELA Director:
Director: Matthew Joblin Saskia Hahn A GIRL OF NO IMPORTANCE DON'T CALL ME BRO
Duration: 15m. Duration: 10m Director: Anya Camilleri Duration: Director: Gina Wenzel
This true story occurred in Iana runs a women‘s shelter and 15m. Duration: 19m.
Manchester with over 30 people helps girls like Ionela to escape from A teenager escapes from sex Cheyenne is the only girl in a boys'
trafficked from Poland and housed in forced prostitution. Will her plan traffickers with her life, and finds football gang known as "The Kick-
a derelict pub. Trapped against their succeed this time? herself in the centre of medieval About Crew". Boozing and violence
will, Jani makes a brave attempt to Rome, unable to trust anyone. play a central role in the life of the
escape. gang, of which Cheyenne's boyfriend,
Josh, is also a member. One day a
new boy with something mysterious
about him appears at the pitch.
DON'T CALL ME BRO
CONCRETE
26 RESPECT BELFAST HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL 27WEDNESDAY 8TH AUGUST WEDNESDAY 8TH AUGUST
SHORTS (DRAMA) PROGRAMME 2 SHORTS (DOCUMENTARY) PROGRAMME 3
VOICES INSTRINISIC MORAL EVIL THE OTHER SIDE MS, MEXICO & ME
Director: Ramazan Nanayev Director: Harm Weistra Director: Erica Tucherman Director: Calum Menzies
Duration: 4m. Duration: 10m. uration: 18m. Duration: 16m.
Ramazan faces his failures, self-doubt, A tale of identity and coming of age. Through the testimonies of convicts One woman’s journey from her home
and depression in the form of alter Three dancers play with the viewer’s and volunteers we build a portrait of in the Isle of Lewis in Scotland all the
egos as he struggles to find the answer perception and expectations. these people, their dreams and their way to Mexico to get stem cell
to the question “Who are you?”. search for redemption, treatment for her Multiple Sclerosis.
rehabilitation, and freedom while
serving their sentence in a Brazilian
REMEMBER EVERYTHING, TO NOT
SHORTS (DOCUMENTARY) PROGRAMME 3 open prison.
FORGET ANYONE
Director: Paolo Caspani
MAHILA: A WOMAN'S MOVEMENT Duration: 3m.
THE YARD DON'T LET THEM KILL THE OLIVES Director: Sabrina Varani October 3rd 2013: more than 500
Director: Elisabeth Tsouctidi TREES Duration: 30m. emigrants died while attempting to
Duration: 30m. Director: Nejla Osseiran “Mahila” introduces us to three reach Europe. Marco Pietrantuono, a
Two hundred and sixty refugees, Duration: 6m. generations of Dalit women who hyperthymesiacs, recites their
men, women, and children, were, for In June 2017, the people of Gülpınar represent a movement that is names. He will never forget their
a variety of reasons forced to leave village find out about a geothermal changing the face of India. names, they will be remembered,
their homes. By different routes they energy excavation in the middle of thus symbolically alive, for ever.
reach the Refugee Reception Centre their olive groves and start a watch
in Lavrio (Grece). to prevent the machines from
harming their trees.
REMEMBER EVERYTHING, ...
INSTRINISIC MORAL EVIL
MAHILA: ...
THE YARD
28 RESPECT BELFAST HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL 29THURSDAY 9TH AUGUST THURSDAY 9TH AUGUST
SHORTS (DOCUMENTARY) PROGRAMME 1 SHORTS (DOCUMENTARY) PROGRAMME 2
REFUGEE ROADS SANCTUARY LOST BALLAD FOR SYRIA BEE MY JOB: A STORY OF BEES
Directior: Timo Schmidt & Florian Director: Lotte Manicom Director: Eda Elif Tibet AND MEN
Volz Duration: 10m. Duration: 20m. Director: Paolo Caselli &
Duration: 20m. Over time, South Africa’s progressive This self-reflective musical Francesco Ferri
Two students cycle their bikes across refugee system has descended into a documentary mirrors’ the life of Duration: 14m.
Europe, shooting a documentary state of crisis and a main tenet of the Maisa Alhafez a musician and a Bee My Job is a humanitarian project
about the journey of refugees fleeing South African constitution – freedom Syrian refugee living in Istanbul. The led by NGO Cambalache which
their homes. of movement – is set to be film is about her longing to her loved integrates refugees like Abdul in the
compromised. ones as she tries to make a place for Italian territory, teaching them to
her self in the world of the displaced. work as beekeepers.
NOTES FROM DUNBLANE BEING OKEY - WHEN LOVE IS
Director: Kim A. Snyder TREATED AS A CRIME
Duration: 22m. Director: Nina Oppliger REFUGEE WAVE LITTLE REBEL
Following the Sandy Hook Massacre, / Nadia Lanfranchi / Corinne Pfister Director: Jane Chow Director: Aimie Vallat
a priest from Dunblane, Scotland Duration: 34M. Duration: 15m. & Guido Ronge
reaches out to Father Bob offering Okey fled Nigeria, where Meet Gulghutai. She is many things Duration: 10m.
support 16 years after a school homosexuality is a crime and hopes — an Afghan, a Muslim, a mother, an Isatou Jallow is a remarkable West
shooting in his own town. to find safety in Switzerland. The activist, a refugee— and she refuses African woman from The Gambia,
answer to his new asylum request to be contained. and now Seattle resident. Since
will decide the course of his life. seeking asylum in the USA in 2012,
Isatou has pursued graduate degrees
at the UW Law School while she
TAIWAN: LET'S GET MARRIED STREET WORKERS UNITE
continuously advocates for women,
Director: Larry Tung Director: Gabriel Diamond
asylees and people with disabilities.
Duration: 18m. Duration: 8m.
A short documentary about Taiwan's India's street vendors and rickshaw
quest to become Asia's first country drivers are among the country's
to legalize same-sex marriage. most vulnerable citizens. NIDAN is
working to change all that by
organizing them to stand up for their
own rights and stop "feeding milk to
the snake."
30 RESPECT BELFAST HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL 31THURSDAY 9TH AUGUST THURSDAY 9TH AUGUST
SHORTS (DOCUMENTARY) PROGRAMME 2 SHORTS (DOCUMENTARY) PROGRAMME 3
UNEARTHING FRANCO'S DARK TESTIMONIES OF A MASSACRE:
LEGACY TULA TOLI
Director: Alex Casanovas Rosado Director: Shafiur Rahman
Duration: 14m. Duration: 21m.
More than 80 years after the start of Shafiur Rahman encountered
Spanish Civil War, newly heated survivors from what is likely to be the
debates have arisen, as the relatives worst massacre of the Rakhine crisis
of those who fight against the of 2017 - Tula Toli. The film shows
Franco Regime are looking for their distressing images from the
ancestors buried in mass graves. Myanmar border as well as
harrowing interviews with refugees
who describe mass killings, including
the killing of children, rape, and the
destruction of entire villages.
TIMBO
LAND OF GOOD: SEEKING ASYLUM SIX YEAR OLD FEARS
IN GERMANY, AND FINDING Director: Lauren Anders Brown
MAYA FOOTPRINTS TIMBO HATRED Duration: 15m.
Director: Aleksei Director: Sarah Duff Direction: Peiman Director: Ainara Tiefenthäler A short documentary featuring a six
Ivanchenkov Duration: 23m. Zekavat Duration: 14m. year old Syrian girl as she becomes a
Duration: 14m. After centuries of Duration: 9m. Escaping violence in Libya, Abode big sister in a refugee camp that has
Maya keeps fighting for oppression, Construction of dams by struggles to belong in a German the best maternal mortality rate in
her right to be a woman the ǂKhomani San, one energy companies in the town that has become a flashpoint of the world.
officially. She deals with of the last remaining Brazilian Amazon would anti-immigrant anger.
her insecurities, fear of groups of South Africa’s destroy the heart of the
uncertainty and the first people, have won world's largest
society’s hostility back some of their rainforest, and severely
without losing her faith historic homeland in the affect the community of
SIX YEAR OLD FEARS
LAND OF GOOD: ...
and optimism. Will Kalahari Desert and use the indigenous people
Maya’s dream come their ancient knowledge in the area.
true? of nature to run a
wildlife hunting ranch.
32 RESPECT BELFAST HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL 33THURSDAY 9TH AUGUST
SHORTS (DOCUMENTARY) PROGRAMME 3
HUMANS REFUGIM BERLIN
Director: Alex Afshar Director: Miriam Henri
Duration: 3m. Duration: 10m.
This short film is based on a poem by Four people with a refugee
Persian Poet "Nima Yushij" and background reflect upon their new
reflects on refugees who have lost home away from home: Berlin.
their lives during the attempt
crossing the Mediterranean sea in
hope to surviving the war and
finding a better life in Europe.
T(HE)Y BROOKLYN LOVE TALES
Director: Caroline Callender Director: Anthony Di Salvo
& Silver Liftin Duration: 12m.
Duration: 11m. A personal glimpse into the lives of
Dakota Nieves and Indiana Baker three unique married couples with
explore their experiences growing up developmental disabilities, living in
as transgender high school students Brooklyn, NY. - the Shapiros, the
in New York City. Moores and the Freilichs.
BROOKLYN LOVE TALES
34 RESPECT BELFAST HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVALwww.nicamerahire.com info@nicamerahire.com 028 9560 9525
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