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NATIONALITY HUMAN FESTIVAL IN KARABAKH
Karabakh Open
Oct 8 2007
The Heinrich Boll Foundation and the Open Society Institute Assistance
Foundation are holding the film festival "Nationality Human"
in Karabakh.
Nationality Human has been traveling across the regions of the South
Caucasus since April 21 and will continue till October 15. Karabakh
is the final destination of the tour. The cinebus visited Azerbaijan,
Abkhazia, Georgia, South Ossetia and Armenia before it arrived in
Karabakh.
Nationality Human is held in the South Caucasus for the first time.
The idea of the festival occurred in 2005 to the partners and friends
of the Open Society Georgia and the German Heinrich Boll Foundation
collaborating with partners from all parts of the South Caucasus over
projects of conciliation since 2003. The partners are the organizers
of the One World International Human Rights Film Festival in Prague.
The festival includes documentary films from France, the United States
and the former Yugoslavia which focus on human rights and peace across
the South Caucasus. It aims to contribute to the culture of the region
and expand debates regarding a peace settlement of the conflict and
human rights, the news release of the organization holds.
This is a festival on wheels. The group of the festival will visit
in its cinebus with all the necessary equipment 25 places in the
South Caucasus, including big and small cities and villages chosen
by a contest. The local co-organizers also take an active part in
the festival which includes also discussions, cultural and peace
building efforts.
The judges who are young filmmakers from the South Caucasus, Germany
and Czech chose six documentary films and made a three-day program.
In Karabakh the festival is held at Mashtots University, where the
organizer is Albert Voskanyan, Civic Action Center, and in Shushi,
at the Cultural College, where the organizer is Juliet Arustamyan,
Harmony NGO.
Karabakh Open
Oct 8 2007
The Heinrich Boll Foundation and the Open Society Institute Assistance
Foundation are holding the film festival "Nationality Human"
in Karabakh.
Nationality Human has been traveling across the regions of the South
Caucasus since April 21 and will continue till October 15. Karabakh
is the final destination of the tour. The cinebus visited Azerbaijan,
Abkhazia, Georgia, South Ossetia and Armenia before it arrived in
Karabakh.
Nationality Human is held in the South Caucasus for the first time.
The idea of the festival occurred in 2005 to the partners and friends
of the Open Society Georgia and the German Heinrich Boll Foundation
collaborating with partners from all parts of the South Caucasus over
projects of conciliation since 2003. The partners are the organizers
of the One World International Human Rights Film Festival in Prague.
The festival includes documentary films from France, the United States
and the former Yugoslavia which focus on human rights and peace across
the South Caucasus. It aims to contribute to the culture of the region
and expand debates regarding a peace settlement of the conflict and
human rights, the news release of the organization holds.
This is a festival on wheels. The group of the festival will visit
in its cinebus with all the necessary equipment 25 places in the
South Caucasus, including big and small cities and villages chosen
by a contest. The local co-organizers also take an active part in
the festival which includes also discussions, cultural and peace
building efforts.
The judges who are young filmmakers from the South Caucasus, Germany
and Czech chose six documentary films and made a three-day program.
In Karabakh the festival is held at Mashtots University, where the
organizer is Albert Voskanyan, Civic Action Center, and in Shushi,
at the Cultural College, where the organizer is Juliet Arustamyan,
Harmony NGO.