Karama Film Festival to focus on ‘transformations in human rights’

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AMMAN — The 13th Karama Human Rights Film Festival, set to launch on Thursday at the Royal Cultural Center in Amman, will fall under the theme “Transformations in Human Rights”, reported AmmanNet.

 

The festival will last from December 15­–21 and will screen 65 films from 50 different countries.

 

The week-long festival will discuss developments in the world’s human rights trajectory, with various film screenings covering discussions on the global human rights situation.

 

Films will be screened daily at the Royal Cultural Center between 5pm to 9pm in the presence of filmmakers and the festival’s guests.

 

The festival will open with a special film by French director Jean-Luke Godard and the Jordanian animated short film Zoo by Tariq Rimawi. Lebanese artist Ahmad Kaabour will also be a guest at the opening ceremony and will present a collection of his most prominent songs.

 

Ihab Al-Khatib, director of the Karama Festival said the festival aims to focus on human rights in cinema, adding that audiences have found themselves confronting real shifts in humanitarian issues after two years of COVID-19 restrictions.اضافة اعلان

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