The Bamenda Human Rights Film and
Arts Festival has been announced to run from July 15-21, 2012. According to a
Press Release issued by Gwain Colbert Fulai, of A Common Future, the event will
take place in selected halls and cafes in the Bamenda Municipality.
The festival which is in its second edition seeks to articulate local, national
and international issues through films and arts. The festival is also a lineup
of the most sorts after box office films in Cameroon and abroad that clearly
addresses related issues like governance, trafficking, respect of human
dignity, discrimination and above all, the respect of international conventions
and protocols.
It is hoped that through arts,
the festival shall gather over 100 students to participate in shinning the
light on human rights and their drawings shall later be displayed at a gallery
on the university campus throughout the festival period. Through this, the
students shall be brought to promote, defend, and raise awareness on human
rights issues in Cameroon.
According to the Release, some 18
selected films with each addressing human rights issues shall be screened. The
communiqué further states that all the films selected were chosen within the
context that each address the concern of humanity and violence against women.
According to Gwain Colbert Fulai,
the festival is intended to encourage many more Cameroonian film makers and
producers to inculcate human rights as a key theme in the development of their
films as an efficient and effective communicative vehicle in human rights
education and sensitization. Besides, it also seeks to promote the core values
of the international community’s human rights principles of a world free of
discrimination, conflict and human rights violations.
The 18 films selected for the
festival are: Widows at War and Wildlife Palavar produced and directed by
Chop Samuel; Vice & Virtue as well as Asoni directed by Keka
Sylvester; Tears from an Angel by Ihehon; Perverted Angel and Une
Vie, Une Histoire by Alfred Amandy; Elemo by Nchoutu Rami; The
Evidence by Ngato Noutosii; Before the Sunrise by Agbor Gilbert;
Your Mother, My Wife by Molimo
Cletus; The Woman’s World by Itambi Delphine; Atonement Calabash by
Akuro Titus; Pension by Nyincho James; The Storm by CHRAC; Thinking Out of the Man Box by Anthony
Porter; Rape and Incest
produced by Aunties Association and the German Technical Cooperation.
A Common Future it should be
noted is a leading national organization that works to transform lives and
build common frontiers by proposing alternative models of masculinity that are
not in opposition to models of femininity and that allow men and women to share
love, decision making and productive health issues. The Festival is organized
in collaboration with the Netherlands based Movie That Matter, the
International Network of Human Rights Films Festivals, the North West Regional
Delegation of Arts and Culture, The Bamenda City Municipality as well as some
local organizations.
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