[Reader-list] [Announcements] UNICEF Documentary Film Festival at Alliance Française de Delhi- November 10 & 11

[Mitoo Das]

*INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
M.L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Francaise de Delhi, 72 Lodi Estate, 
New Delhi -03
Presented by UNICEF & Alliance Francaise de Delhi

*
*November 10
6:00 p.m.
Opening of the Festival
Wine & Cheese*

 
*November 10 , 6:45 p.m.
The Day My God Died
India, Nepal, 2004, 62 min
Director: Andrew Levine (US)*

The clandestine nature of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation makes it 
difficult to establish reliable numbers for child and adolescent 
victims.  In addition to the trauma of sexual exploitation, survivors 
often miss out on school and are exposed to physical injury, sexually 
transmitted infections, HIV and unwanted pregnancies.

The Day My God Died presents the stories of young girls whose lives have 
been shattered by the child sex trade. In the film, they describe the 
day they were abducted from their village and sold into sexual 
servitude. They are victimized by many. Recruiters capture them, 
smugglers transport them, brothel owners enslave them, corrupt police 
betray them and customers rape and infect them. Organizations working to 
help free these girls are sometimes successful and some victims have 
formed their own underground railway out of slavery. Maili, trafficked 
at 19 along with her infant daughter, risks her life to help other 
girls. Jyoti, sold at age12, leads a raid on a brothel resulting in the 
rescue of seven girls and the arrest of two brothel owners.

*Subtitles: English
*

*November 10 , 7.50 p.m.
Walking the Path of Unity
Senegal, 2009
Duration -- 30 mins
Directors: Marc Dacosse &  Eric Dagostino (Brussels)*

In Senegal, the movement to end female genital cutting continues to gain 
momentum. More than 100 villages have publicly abandoned this practice 
and also repudiated early marriages.

In the heart of Senegal's Casamance region, the people of Diégoune and 
neighbouring villages, publicly declared the abandonment of the practice 
of female genital cutting. Facilitated by Tostan and the Belgian 
organization Respect, and shown in partnership with Cinéma Numérique 
Ambulant, the film highlights the key players in the movement towards 
the abandonment of FGC. Whether in the rice field, the central village 
space, or the mosque, the men and women in the film explain with joy and 
pride their reasons for deciding to abandon practices harmful to the 
well-being of their children. The dedication and activism of these men 
and women eventually led to the collective abandonment of FGC and 
child/forced marriage by the village's entire social network.

*Language: Diola
Subtitles: English
*

*November 11 , 6.30 p.m.
21 and Up South Africa: Mandela's Children
South Africa, 2007, 69 min
Director: Angus Gibson (South Africa)*

In South Africa, a quarter of the work force is unemployed, especially 
among young people under the age of 35, women and African people, where 
the rate of unemployment has been falling since 2003.

The Up Series are documentaries that revisit a group of children from 
different countries every seven years. In 2007, in post-apartheid South 
Africa, filmmaker Angus Gibson re-visits 11 young people of various 
races and backgrounds as they turn 21. The result is an insightful look 
at the lives of these young people who, faced with varying economic and 
social realities, must deal with issues such as unemployment, crime, 
race relations, education and the AIDS epidemic, which has killed three 
of the original 14 children.

*Language: English*


*November 11 , 7.45 p.m.
Sari's Mother
Iraq, 2007, 21 min
Director: James Longley (US)*

Director James Longley creates an intimate, revealing portrait of life 
inside war-torn Iraq.  In the restive Mahmudiyah area of central Iraq, 
the Zegum family makes their living by selling milk and butter, farming 
land rented from their neighbors. Sari, their 10 year-old son, is dying 
of AIDS. Faten, the boy's mother, does not lose her resolve as she 
visits doctors and ministers trying to get help from Iraqi's broken 
healthcare system.

*Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English*

 
*November 11, 8.10 p.m.
The Final Inch
India, 2008, 39 min
Director: Irene Taylor Brodsky (US)*

Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nigeria are the last four countries 
where polio remains prevalent. India's high birth rate and dense 
population presents the greatest challenge in the global drive to end 
the disease.

Nearly 50 years after a vaccine for polio was developed in the United 
States, the polio virus is largely forgotten in many countries. But 
polio remains a threat to the world's poorest.  In India, The Final Inch 
follows volunteers as they try to persuade reluctant families that their 
children's health transcends politics and religion. The film 
personalizes the global campaign to eradicate polio by capturing the 
dedication of volunteers as they search for the impoverished and 
vulnerable children who need the vaccine before it is too late.

*Language: English
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