Getting ready for the South Caucasian film festival

06-03-2007 16:19:39 – KarabakhOpen

The Heinrich Boll Foundation and the South Caucasian offices of the
Open Society Fund in Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Nagorno
Karabakh and South Ossetia will hold a film festival of peace and
human rights entitled ` Nationality: human’. According to the
coordinator of the project Kerstin Niking, the festival of documentary
films starts in April and will last till October 2007. Over this
period mini festivals will be held throughout the South Caucasus. It
is the first festival in the region, and the purpose of the organizers
is to show real documentary films to the South Caucasian viewer. Since
the world is one, and the language of cinema is clear to everyone, the
Caucasian viewers will identify themselves with people from different
countries of the world, mentally go through and support their struggle
for peace and justice.

The judges of the festival (young film makers and representatives of
NGOs of the South Caucasus, Germany and Czech) have chosen six
documentary films of world level (from Israel, former Yugoslavia,
France and the United States) and made a three-day program. Local
competitions for co-organizers of the festival were announced. Two
festivals will be held in Karabakh, in Stepanakert and in Shushi. A
few days ago a workshop was held in Shushi for the organizers of the
festival in Karabakh, Harmony NGO and the Civic Action Center.
According to the participants of the meeting, two days of workshop
were highly useful and important.

Karineh Ohanyan, journalist, who is one of the judges of the festival,
told KarabakhOpen.com that the festival will arrive in Karabakh in
October. Everyone is welcome to watch and discuss films about peace
and human rights for three days in Stepanakert and for another three
days in Shushi.