Sessió Pro: Risks of the Defense of Freedom of Expression in Cinema
IMPACTE! Festival presents a Professional Session on the defense of freedom of expression in cinema, which will include the first presentation in Spain of the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR), an organization that works . behalf of filmmakers who suffer persecution, imprisonment or torture because of their creative activity The presentation of the […]
To a Land Unknown
Chatila and Reda, two Palestinian cousins, commit petty theft so they can buy fake passports to leave Athens. When Reda loses the money he has saved due to his drug addiction, Chatila devises an extreme plan, which involves them posing as smugglers and taking hostages in an effort to get out of their desperate situation.
Cafe
Currently imprisoned Iranian filmmaker Navid Mihandoust presents the self-referential story of a director who lives surrounded by uncertainties while waiting to be sentenced and taken to prison. Mihandoust made the film while out on bail, without obtaining permission from the authorities, as he was convinced that cinema and art have a world of their own […]
I’m His Daughter
Matsumoto Rika’s father was the guru of Aum Shinrikyo, the religious cult responsible for the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995– a mass murder that shocked Japan to the core. Rika was brought up within the cult. Although she was just a child when the crimes were committed, she has been exposed to discrimination […]
