Canceled due to coronavirus, the Film Festival and International Human Rights Forum (FIFDH), which was to take place from March 6 to 15 in Geneva, will take place online. The alternative program offers 27 debates and interviews transmitted directly on the internet.
Debates broadcast live
This 2.0 program takes up most of the original FIFDH Forum program devoted to the climate emergency, the defense of fundamental rights and the proliferation of citizen revolts around the world, the festival announced on Wednesday. The FIFDH intends to bring the voice of human rights defenders to a large audience, despite the epidemic of Covid-19.
Fifty guests, including Sudanese Tahani Abass, executive director of the NGO Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth and Hatice Cengiz, fiancée of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, will travel to Geneva to participate in debates and major interviews that will be broadcast on the site FIFDH and other platforms. As the debates are transmitted live, the public can ask questions.
# FIFDH20 | The Festival announces its 2.0 programming ????
After the cancellation of the public events of the 2020 edition, the #FIFDH returns with a redesigned program. 27 debates and interviews will be transmitted live on the internet. Detailed program ?? https://t.co/ufVqwOENRj
– FIFDH Geneva (@fifdh) March 4, 2020
Record maintained
In terms of films, the RTS will show documentaries scheduled as part of the festival, and the FIFDH will inform the public of the releases in theaters of films – documentary and fiction – of the official selection. Eleven Swiss festivals are also committed to showing films that were to be screened at the FIFDH. The festival juries will award their 2020 awards as planned on March 15.
Several of the partner events are maintained, under the responsibility of their organizers, specifies the festival. The same is true for school screenings, in rooms exclusively reserved for students.
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Created: 04.03.2020, 6:09 p.m.
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