SPECIAL SCREENING

All Human Beings Are Born Free And Equal...

Special Screening of Award-Winning European Films based on the 1st Act of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In collaboration with the Goethe Institut of Athens and Thessaloniki.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948. It was the international community’s answer to the atrocities of the Nazi regime and the violence experienced in the World War. Today almost every country recognizes human rights as universal and inalienable rights of every human rights is still a controversial issue today. This applies particularly to Article 1 of the declaration:

“All human beings are born free and aqual in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”

This declaration confirms that every human being is entitled to rights and freedoms regardless of ethnic origin, skin colour, gender, language, religion, personal beliefs, national or social origins, property, birth or other status.

To mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2008, the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”, joined forces with the Goethe-Institut to hold a Second International Short Film Competition. Students from film and art colleges in Germany, Estonia, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic, the Ukraine and the USA were asked to take a critical look at the rights to freedom and equality in dignity and rights that the Declaration pronounces. In each of the ten participant countries, a national jury could offer up to five entrants the chance their ideas into film.

All in all, 292 synopses were submitted. 47 entries were chosen for realization by national juries. 43 films were actually produced and 26 of these have received awards.

These award-winning productions on the theme of human rights were presented in a special programme at the International Festival of Film Colleges in Munich. What is more, one of the films was even admitted to the official competition by the Festival’s preselection jury. This DVD edition allows the prize-winning film’s remarkable diversity, both artistic and content-wise, to be enjoyed once again.

MUNICIPAL CONSERVATORY

Wednesday 17/9/2008, 17:00 - 19:00

  • "Workshop: All human beings are born free and equal!" Mikhail Zheleznikov, Russia (15’)
  • "Christmas eve" Monika Dabrowska, Michal Jankowski, Poland (10’)
  • "Practical training on human subject" Arturas Bukauskas, Lithuania (11’)
  • "Living on the landing" Sabine Zimmer, Sandra Budesheim, Germany (16’)
  • "Monolith" Kristina Norman, Estonia (15’)
  • "Mother and wall" Zuzana Vondrackova, Czech Republic (11’)
  • "God looks like me" Osato Dixon, USA (13’)
  • "Radunitsa", Roman Bondarchuk, Ukraine (15’)

MUNICIPAL CONSERVATORY

Thursday 18/9/2008, 17:00 - 19:00

  • "The difficult one" Nikolay Bondarchuk, Ukraine (20’)
  • "Fish’n’Pills" Tereza Tara, Czech Republic (21’)
  • "Kyrill…from the army of Lost soldiers" Julia Ishakova, Aleksandr Chernov, Russia (11’)
  • "You should have the body" Michael Masarof, USA (15’)
  • "Rain" Marina Vroda, Ukraine (13’)
  • "No visa" Bartosz Paduch, Poland (16’)