The Human Rights Arts & Film Festival is adopting a wider media experience concerning human and social rights. It combines documentary, films, video, art exhibitions, music, poetry, forums and Q & A with authors and filmmakers. The intention is to show something different to what is usually served up in the average diet of local information delivered into Australia’s homes everyday. The festival’s idea is that the world is one place and that what happens in the world outside our houses is still our story; we are part of it even if we are not directly connected to it. The festival is showing what we watch and read everyday. So, it is a great occasion to catch up with what is happening around us and with what we probably don’t know enough about.
The festival was created in 2007 in Melbourne. This is the third edition (after a pause in 2009) and is now being expanded to other cities (Canberra, Adelaide, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane) that will present a selected program. In Melbourne, the festival will run from April 23 to May 9, with the film program starting on April 30 screening mostly at Cinema Nova.
Festival Website http://www.hraff.org.au/.
Festival Dates:
MELBOURNE 23 APRIL – 9 MAY.
CANBERRA 27 MAY – 29 MAY.
ADELAIDE 14 MAY – 16 MAY.
SYDNEY 27 MAY – 29 MAY.
PERTH 15 MAY – 23 MAY.
BRISBANE 29 MAY – 30 MAY.
OPENING NIGHT | Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Pray the Devil Back to Hell documents an often overlooked chapter in recent world history, the remarkable revolution of the women of Liberia. Tired of… [Read More]
Reel Change – Climate Change Shorts
The Reel Change shorts’ session explores one of the most important and urgent issues of our time – climate change – and the affect that it… [Read More]
The inside story of the infamous “Amazon Chernobyl” case, from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) Crude takes place i… [Read More]
Hossein and Shaima have loved each other since childhood. They meet regularly even though Shaima’s father sold her into marriage and Hossein was cripp… [Read More]
DOUBLE SCREENING: Black Man’s Houses & The Journey Back
STEVE THOMAS GUEST PROGRAMMER Most ‘human rights’ films are made by filmmakers who have human rights about people without human rights. This raises im… [Read More]
A Blooming Business. Screening with Tongzhi in Love
A Blooming Business uses a language of intimate images to lead us gently through the harsh realities of the global flower industry. The beauty of the … [Read More]
NoBody’s Perfect. Screening with Kriss Kross
NoBody’s Perfect follows Niko von Glasow as he looks for eleven people who, like him, were born disabled due to the disastrous side-effects of Thalido… [Read More]
Do international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa actually benefit the communities they seek to help? Are human rights abuses and environmental ... [Read More]
Reel Change – Climate Change Shorts
Spoken word and human rights will merge when the 2010 HRAFF Poetry Slam takes place at Red Violin.
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The Reel Change shorts’ session explores one of the most important and urgent issues of our time – climate change – and the affect that it… [Read More]
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