Festival Del Cinema Dei Diritti Umani Di Napoli
The Naples Human Rights Film Festival was born in 2008 as an initiative of the association "Cinema e Diritti" with the aim of establishing a reference point for Human Rights debate in Southern Europe opening up a dialogue among civil societies from the Middle East to North Africa and to Northern Europe and America.The tradition of hospitality in the city of Naples and its function as a crossroad for migrant people since the Middle Age allows us today to establish a meeting point for communities that are moving towards democracy and peace. Naples, through the project of its Film Festival, aims to become a “Human Rights City”, and has been aligned with Buenos Aires and its DerHumALC festival from the beginning. The Festival of Naples is designed and built every year through a process of participation that features the city's neighborhood associations and municipalities from the metropolitan area. Each association chooses a day and a topic from universal rights developing it through movies, presentations and open debates. Guests are available to schools and universities for lectures and discussions; and there is a documentary film competition. Shows are all free. The main target audience of the festival is scholars and university students, but also the outlying communities and most vulnerable social groups, as far as immigrants and Roma people.
XVI edition of the Naples Human Rights Film Festival (November 11-22, 2024)
"Let’s build a Culture of Peace"
The XVI edition of the Festival aims to show young people the paths for training in the Professions of Peace.
Peace is not only a political and social condition, but also a condition of coexistence in which the risks of conflict can be studied, controlled and prevented through the dissemination of professional figures and training courses within the reach of students from all over the world.
Delegations from some of the most famous Peace Universities and Research Institutes in the world will be present at the Festival, and at the end of the Festival the opening of an annual university orientation initiative for Italian students will be announced which will be based in the Campania Region, in collaboration with a Campania University.
The call for film competition closes on June 30th, 2024
This is the link to register the works: https://www.cinenapolidiritti.it/web/2024/05/02/xvi-festival-del-cinema-dei-diritti-umani-di-napoli-il-bando-del-concorso-cinematografico/?lang=en
The selected works - documentary, fiction and animation - will describe aspects of current reality, with a look at the social/cultural/economic/environmental issues that globalization and the crisis of traditional development models have inevitably brought to the attention of the world community, and also possible solutions, good practices and forms of resistance to civil degradation that communities, associations and citizens experience daily.
Works that recount real cases of denunciation or human resistance, individual or collective, which oppose threats, abuse, violence, dictatorships and aggression against people belonging to ethnic or cultural minorities or weak social groups, are particularly welcome.
The Naples Human Rights Film Festival Competition is divided into 6 Prizes and 3 Mentions dedicated to all works about every kind of Human Right:
A) HUMAN RIGHTS DOC AWARD, open to works lasting longer than 52 minutes
B) HUMAN RIGHTS SHORT AWARD, open to short films lasting less than or equal to 52 minutes
C) HUMAN RIGHTS YOUTH AWARD, open to works of authors under 25 years of age or addressed to an audience of children and/or young people up to 25 years of age, lasting no longer than 30 minutes.
D) SWISS AMBASSADOR FOR PEACE AWARD, open to works about events and issues related to the theme of Peace.
E) PRIZE "MARIO PACIOLLA", addressed to works that deal with topics related to international cooperation. Mario Paciolla was a young Italian cooperant operating in Colombia UNDP Programme; he was found dead in 2020 July in his home and his family is still asking for truth and justice.
F) "FICC" PRIZE, offered by one of the most important Italian cineclub network founded in 1947, Federazione Italiana dei Circoli di Cineclub.
G) “WIDE AUDIENCE” MENTION, for people connected to the online web
H) “VITTORIO ARRIGONI AND JULIANO MER KHAMIS” MENTION, assigned by internal jury to the most courageous and innovative film