The Movement for Peace (MPDL) is organizing this series in the CBA in which, through a series of recent samples of cinema disparate uses of cinema as a tool of civic discussion and awareness in order to find ways to settle disputes hit various parts of the planet. The projections will be accompanied by seminars to be attended by the directors with various experts in the field. Here you can view the full program:

Thursday, September 27^th

6:00pm – Little voices (Animation, Columbia) recounts the true stories of four Colombian kids displaced by the country’s ongoing armed conflict. Conference with Jairo Eduardo Carrillo (director), Peraza Dianys Rojas (Solidarity Development Corporation Director, CDS) and Michelangelo Modera Oliver (presenter and editor of News Four).

8:30pm – Granito (Granito: How to nail a dictator) documents the story of how a film, aiding a new generation of human rights activists in South America, became a granito, a tiny grain of sand, that helped tip the scales of justice. Conference with Pamela Yates (Director), Paco de Onis (producer) and Carmen Rosa de Leon (director of the Institute of Education for Sustainable Development (IEPADES).

Friday, September 28^th

6:00pm – Pour le meilleur et pour l’oignon (For the Best and for the Onion) documents the Galmi, a purple onion from Niger, providing West African markets with four hundred thousand tons of the vegetable each year. Conference with Sani Elhadj Ayouba Magori and Hassane (director of the Federation of Cooperative Union Producing Rice, FUCOPRI).

8:30pm – Refugees in Lebanon: the other side of Palestine with conference by James Echeverría (director) and Thomas Alcoverro (correspondent of La Vanguardia).