Amman – “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”: Under the title “Transformations in human rights”, the thirteenth session of “Karama Human Rights Film FestivalNext Thursday evening in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
The week-long festival discusses the changes and breakthroughs that have taken place in the course of human rights around the world, through screenings of various films that embody this idea and talk about the new human rights situation around the world.
This year, 65 films from 50 Arab and foreign countries will participate in the festival, through which they will monitor developments, changes and breakthroughs, shifting priorities and double standards in human rights through cinema and creative cinematic discourse. Royal Cultural Center from 15 to 21 December. This December, in the presence of the directors and guests of the festival.
The festival will be opened by a special film by French director Jean-Luc Godard, preceded by the Jordanian animated short film The Zoo by director Tariq Rimawi, while the veteran Lebanese artist will perform. Ahmed KaabourAs the guest of honor at the opening ceremony, he will present a collection of his most important songs that live in people’s hearts.
Lebanese singer Ahmed Kaabour is the guest of honor and will present a collection of his most important songs
The artistic director of the festival, director Ehab Al-Khatib, said: “World cinema audiences have found themselves facing new breakthroughs and real transformations in humanitarian issues, after emerging from the closures and restrictions imposed on them by the economic pandemic for two consecutive years. Our question for this session comes in contemplating cinematic transformations and their repercussions on the man and his urgent daily stories. Therefore, we tried to capture these transformations cinematically.
Al-Khatib added, “Human rights issues have witnessed a significant decline in many areas, such as health, environment, freedom of expression, world of communication, film drama and others.”
During 7 days, the festival presents a series of activities parallel to the film screenings, such as film seminars, dialogue sessions, workshops, a youth forum, performances by schools, universities, rehabilitation centers and special performances in the governorates of Irbid, Salt and Azraq, as well as the popular youth music dignity show. The festival also enjoys extensive media partnerships.
Interestingly, the ‘Karama Festival for Human Rights Films’ is the first Jordanian national international film festival which has been running for 13 years without interruption in Jordan.
