Migration, land reclamation, global warming and violence against women — issues that the organisers of the 4th Tri Continental Film Festival hope to explore in their effort to find “linkages between social struggles and respect for human rights,norms and practices. The festival that commences later this week at Nadan emphasises the role of popular culture and media in the process of change. “The Tri Continental Film Festival was an initiative by a few Latin American filmmakers to use the medium of films as a tool to address human rights concerns,”says Kakali Bhattacherjee of Swayam, a women’s rights organisation, which is the local collaborator of the 4-city festival. Breakhrough, a Delhi based human rights organisation, is the main organiser of the festival which will see the screening of 13 films from Asia, Africa and America. “This year we want to bring forward untold stories from the past and frame them within the context of human rights. Be it a filmmaker in Tunisia trying to become the next Quentin Tarantino or the tale ofwoes of the sweat shopworkers in a Chinese garment factory- human rights form the thread with which this festival is sutured,” says Anuja Ghosalkar of Breakthrough.
The Tri Continental Film Festival will run at Nandan II from February 8 to Feruary 10.
