Launch of the Human Rights Festival in Beirut on July 17

The third edition of the festival, to be held this year in cooperation with the United Nations Information Center in Beirut and the embbadies of Switzerland, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands in Lebanon , will last four days. The films include seven long documentaries, four short documentaries and five short films, followed by panel discussions and the main symposium on freedom of expression in Lebanon. The third session of the festival supports the free expression and recall the technical products that are repressed by the authorities in charge of protecting them, in order to preserve the positive spirit of creativity and dispel the specter of repression. The festival opens with a Palestinian-German film entitled "Surf Club" produced in 2016 by directors Philip Janat and Mickey Yemin. It addresses the problem of Gazans living in the world's largest, war-controlled, open-air prison, and attracted by a new generation of beaches where they find their personal freedom in the waves of the Mediterranean, exhausted by the riots. occupation and political inertia. An Afghan-American documentary entitled "What Tomorrow Will Bring" produced a 2015 production of American director and producer Beth Murphy, who won two awards in this area. Unprecedented, the film "What Tomorrow" enters the first school for girls in a small Afghan village where parents have never been allowed to teach their daughters. With the school's debut in 2009 at the first promotion in 2015, the director herself integrates with this community, in an intimate look at what it really means to be a girl today in Afghanistan, and the necessary changes in hearts and minds. Among the guests of the festival are Al-Baqar Jaafar, the director of the movie "The Band" of Iraq, Nayla Al-Ayyash and Rafat Al-Zakht: the heroes of Nayla and the Palestinian Intifada, Rula Salama, producer of Nayla and Al-Intifada of Palestine; Cultural and theatrical distribution of Egypt and Basma Farhat, director of the film "Khosouf" of Lebanon. Festival director Haitham Shams told Reuters that the third session should "raise unresolved questions about the culture of local rights such as the prevention of knowledge and expression, many of which emerged under a legal and customary form ". "It's not freedom of expression with deviant readings of constitutions only, but more than damaging to human dignity, one of the founding rights of the universal law of human rights." # 39; man. " "Here we are not just observers, but as observers, our human dignity has been violated by the confiscation of our right to knowledge and expression." Karameh-Beirut Human Rights Film Festival ", as well as internationally recognized film festivals on human rights, helps to put forward films that reject racism, hate speech, discrimination and injustice. The first edition of the festival, entitled "Other", was held in 2016. The aim of the festival was to raise awareness of the rights of refugees and minorities in Lebanon and the Arab world, while in 2017 the second session s titled "New identities"