Thursday, April 30, 2009

Bahrain Human Rights International Film Festival


Bahrain Human Rights International Film Festival (BHRIFF) is a nonprofit cultural event dedicated to the introduction and promotion of films related to human rights... the festival shows a wide range of features, documentaries and short films selected from around the world to facilitate a constructive global discourse on the most important human rights issues...
BHRIFF is organized every year from 1st to 4th May in celebration of Labour Day and the International Day for Press Freedom...

schedule can be found here...

disappointingly the BHRIFF site does not provide any information on the films... below is all i could find on the internets... some films i didn't find any information on at all or i couldn't tell which movie it was from the available options...

UPDATE: (saturday may 2, 2009)
i was able to get more information on the films from the booklet that was handed out at the event... i've included the new info below...

0.25 (Afghanistan)
afghanistancinema

Aaish Ya Helo (Palestine)

Angles in the Dust (South Africa)
main
imdb

Another Planet (Hungary)

Awaiting Tomorrow (USA-Congo)
witness
youtube

Baghdad Days (Iraq)
iftvc
youtube

Borderland (Jordan)

Campaign The Kawaski Candidate (Japan)
whydemocracy?

Delta Oil's Dirty Business (Greece-Nigeria)
smallplanet
blogspot

Dinner with the President (Pakistan)
whydemocracy?
imdb
youtube

El Sistema (Venezuela-Germany)
main
youtube
wikipedia

End of the Land (Afghanistan)
cacakabul

Fighting the Silence (Netherland-Congo)
youtube

Flowers of Rwanda (Spain-Rawanda)
floresderuanda

Foreigners at Home (Bahrain)

For God, Tsar and Fatherland (Russia)
whydemocracy?
youtube

Forbidden Childhood (Palestine-Italy)
main
isfit

India Untouched (India)
dearcinema
youtube

In Search of Gandhi (India)
whydemocracy?
youtube

Iron Ladies of Liberia (Liberia)
whydemocracy?
imdb
youtube

La Route Du Nord (Lebanon-France)

Looking for the Revolution (Bolivia)
imdb

Meet Me Out of the Siege (Palestine)
beyondblueandgray
quidnovis

Models of Success (Bahrain-USA)
main

Pamir Territory (Afghanistan)
cacakabul

Please Vote for Me (China)
main
imdb
wikipedia
youtube

Poison Fire (Tanzania-Nigeria)
main
youtube

Rough Aunties (UK-South Africa)
main
imdb
youtube

Stories on Human Rights (Switzerland)
ohchr
youtube
artfortheworld

The Low Show (Bahrain)

The Promised Land (Bangladesh)
main

The Reckoning (USA)
main

Total Denial (Italy-Bulgaria-Burma)
imdb
main
youtube

Victoria (Argentina)
main

When Women Unite (India)
pedestrianpictures

5 comments:

  1. great post and research Shewner.. we defiantly should check some of those out :D

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  2. is mine pleasure... i must say that the advertising of events in this region is defiantly lacking... the bhriff site updated its info to reflect the 2009 schedule only one day before the kickoff day!

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  3. haha i see what u did there.. and u, my friend, are defiantly an a$$hole :p

    and bhriff is an awesome acronym! :p

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  4. Hey guys...speaking of documentaries...has any of you seen the one called “The Cost of a Coke"? I would love to "Borrow" it from the internet and see it. but of course, being the experts that you are… I will need to hear your opinions about it first.

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