Human Rights Human Wrongs Film Festival

Oppression

Visual documentation of societies under total oppression is crucial in providing evidence of the multiple human rights abuses that occur under such regimes. How can the communities affected respond? If they cannot, then how can we?

Come and see the following films and you will be privleged to see what is going on in places where reporting is non-existent or minimal. These people have no voice of their own. Is there really no alternative than total elimination of their societies?

	Undercover in Tibet 2008, 48mins, UK, Jezza Neumann Tibetan exile Tash Despa returns to his homeland to reveal the regime of terror that dominates daily life and makes freedom of expression an impossibility. A chance to almost feel for yourself how it is to live in a society suffocated of its normal existence. Link The official website http://truevisiontv.com/tibet/index.htm A source of links to organisations working with Tibet where you can get involved if you want to help
	This Way Up 2007, 60mins, France, Georgi Lazarevski Just east of Jerusalem, the construction of the wall of separation continues a few meters from a senior citizens home. The inhabitants are gradually and unavoidably isolated. How it feels to be hemmed in can be sensed even in those who themselves are limited in their movements.
	What Remains of Us 2004, 76mins, Canada, François Prévost and Hugo Latulippe Kalsang Dolma travels back to Tibet with a video greeting from the Dalai Lama. The film records the response of those that watch the video and reveals a society balanced between losing its culture and hanging onto the Dalai Lama's messages of peaceful resistance. The Dalai Lama has 'given up'. What happens now in Tibet? Kalsang Dolma is coming from Canada to be with us and to introduce the film.
	The Devil Came on Horseback 2007, 87mins, USA, Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern A Break Thru Films production in association with Global Grassroots and Three Generations Brian Steidle had unique access as a military observer to get images and stories of lives systematically destroyed in Darfur. Frustrated by the inaction of the international community, he resigns and tries to use his pictures to generate a response. The evidence of devastating oppression in Darfur, told in a way that makes you feel part of the all too ineffective response. Link The official website http://www.thedevilcameonhorseback.com How to take action on Darfur, buy the DVD and find more background information.