Geneva becomes the stage for human rights

Cristina Barbetta

47 films, 200 debates and conferences, 300 guests, among whom artist Ai Weiwei and actor Forest Whitaker. These are the numbers of FIFDH, the most important event at international level on human rights and cinema, that is taking place from the 8th to the 17th of March. A festival with a strong social impact, that includes educational programmes for students, and involves migrants and detainees

Cinécyclo, travelling cinema by bike

Cristina Barbetta

Thanks to a bike equipped with an electric power unit with pedals Vincent Hanrion with his association goes around the world bringing cinema to the most remote places

Le Projet Imagine, stories that change the world

Cristina Barbetta

Le Projet Imagine in an NGO that, through videos and documentaries, highlights stories of anonymous heroes, people who act in the shade and do extraordinary things for those who are around them. The aim? Inspire and move to action. The ngo has consultative statute at the UN Economic and Social Council.

Inclusion begins at the dinner table

Staff

Fondazione CRT arrives at the “Championing Philanthropy” exhibition at Philanthropy House, Brussels, with the project “Guess who’s coming to dinner?” featuring migrant families who felt the desire to open up themselves and their homes to meeting and sharing offering a special family dinner.

Protecting workers in the supply chain would help to end poverty

Monica Straniero

The 105th International Labour Conference (ILC) closed following two weeks of deliberations on key world of work issues, including decent work in global supply chains.

The largest international showcase of cinematic art with a social conscience

Monica Straniero

In a rapidly changing world where there is a growing awareness that we are facing fundamental problems, Positive Planet believes there has never been a more pressing time to celebrate and encourage the role of cinema in inspiring the change needed for a more positive future.

“Fire at sea”, the greatest tragedy we have ever seen in Europe

Monica Straniero

“A mass grave is being created in the Mediterranean Sea and the we are all responsible”. Gianfranco Rosi, whose films include Sacro GRA, winner of Venice’s Golden Lion in 2013, spent months living in Lampedusa to face what he has said perhaps after the Holocaust, it is one of the greatest tragedies the world has ever seen. The island is conveniently closer to Africa than Europe, around 70 miles from the Tunisian coast and further south than Malta

Big Tobacco targets poor countries

Monica Straniero

According to a new study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, the prevalence of smoking is falling in richer nations, but increasing in many middle and low income countries. As a result, the tobacco industry have increasingly marketed their products in developing countries and emerging economies, and they target young people the most

Lux Film prize awards Turkish young women who break tradition

Evelina C. Urgolo

Today Mustang won the 2015 European Parliament LUX Prize for cinema in Strasbourg. The movie pictures five sisters fighting for their independence and unwilling to give up to partiarchal tradition.