Screening and discussion
VIDEOREPORTAGES BY FATİH PINAR
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5 December 2014 Saturday 19:00
SALTGalata
Photo-journalist Fatih Pınar will discuss the possibilities of 'videoreportage', the new and alternative form of indepentent journalism, and present several examples of his recent works.
"Videoreportage, an alternative journalism movement against mainstream media that serves capital and power that is controlled by financial and censorship pressures, and which is spread via the internet as a movement to create social and political change. It is a way in which to participate in activism.
To witness violations of human rights, in terms of subjects like shelter, education, health, poverty, homelessness, women, workers, children, LGBTI and ethnicity, to record them and take part in the struggle by making these issues seen. It is on the side of those who are oppressed and face injustice. It creates short, quick and striking videos by looking at truth on the side of justice and the people. As the media is manipulating and warping the truth, we can see the strength of videoreportages in the very fact that it takes directly from the truth. Because nothing can be as effective and transformative as the truth itself." F. Pınar
Screening and discussion
SEARCHING TRACES - SHORT FILMS AROUND THE TOPIC DISPLACEMENT |
6 December 2014 Sunday 14:00
SALT Galata
Participants: Mohammad Fares, Nadine al Lahham, Nazlı Mayuk, Shadi Abou Karam, Katharina Weithaler, Sabine Küper-Büsch, Thomas Büsch.
The InEnArt team is running a film-producing-group publishing short films on the Internet on the “Streetwalking”-Website of www.InEnArt.eu. The participants are forced migrants from Syria living in Turkey, Turkish citizens and other nationalities living temporarily in Istanbul.
The films produced around the workshop “Searching Traces” in Winter 2014 reflect the experience of displacement by Syrian refugees. The participants where free to choose fiction or documentary narration styles. In Summer 2015 the film group moved to the topic “Chance of Diversity”. Turkish and international young filmmakers joined, all together they produced in a more fictional way the attempt to cope with displacement and relocation.
Short films to be presented during the discussion: “Beyond the Station”, "Instable", “This is Why...”, “Hayalet (Ghost)" and “Humus Connection in Istanbul”.
(www.inenart.eu is an online-platform initiated by the association Diyalog Derneği based in Istanbul)
Forum
REFUGEES AND SOLIDARITY PISSIBILITIES |
6 December 2015 Sunday 16.00 - 20.00
SALT Galata
Participants: Gizem Demirci Al Kadah (SGDD-Program Manager); Yusuf Kiser (Ministry of Family and Social Policies-Social Services); Şenay Özden (Hamisch Syrian Cultural House); Mustafa Çağrı Kurter (Helsinki Citizens' Assembly-Refugee Program Officer); Doç. Dr. Gülay Uğur Göksel (İstanbul Aydın University)
Refugees: Samer Alkadri (Pages Bookstore - Syria), Enzo Ikah (Congo), Kinana (Crossing No More - Syria); Bella Malin (Somalia), ...
We are facing the greatest humanitarian crisis with refugees since the Second World War. Over two million refugees are trying to get to Turkey in legally uncertain
ways and unsafe conditions in order to live, or for other unrecorded situations, and trying to reach third countries in order to seek asylum.
Up until now, we think that generally the politics concerning migration that is shaped in line with our protests in their name, especially with the Edirne March, has been carried to a new stage in which the true actors have started to determine the movement’s politics. Forced displacement is not a choice. Forced displacement is the issue of the downtrodden, it is the responsibility of every individual and every state, and asylum is a basic human right. At this point, we will come together to discuss solidarity possibilities and activism, to share knowledge and listen to the
experiences of migrants.
In the first session of the forum under the title “How do we act with solidarity”, we will talk about the analysis of experts from various fields about the latest regulations
and changes in refugee law, and the difficulties faced concerning health, education and other social services and their implementations.
In the second session we will talk about migrants’ and refugees’ own experiences, different examples of acts of solidarity and the latest initiatives taken.
Special screening: Meeting with Jocelyne Saab
ONCE UPON A TIME, BEIRUT
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6 December 2015 Sunday 17:00
SALT Beyoğlu
7th Which Human Rights? Film Festival is pleased to host Jocelyne Saab, one of the most prominent filmmakers in Arab world, with a very special film. Following the screening, we will talk with Saab about the film, Beirut of the civil war era and Cultural Resistance International Film Festival, a festival that founded by her in Lebanon.
"Once Upon A Time Beirut" (1994): Distraught over Beirut’s destruction, Yasmine and Leila embark on a journey in search of its past. Their possession of two rare, unreleased film reels lands them an encounter with Monsieur Farouk, a reclusive film connoisseur. They persuade him to screen his collection for them. So begins an initiation into the myths and images of Beirut, but the girls want cold figures and facts, war babies indifferent to the memories evoked.
(With the kind help of Boğaziçi Chronicles)
Discussion
FROM NEW YORK TO ISTANBUL AND PARIS: FOR THE CLIMATE
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8 December 2015 Tuesday 19:00
SALT Galata
Participants: Özgecan Kara, Murat Can Tonbil
For the Climate campaign was emerged form need of a new way to bring tgether everyone and every institution who is fighting against climate change. We will talk about the pathway from the biggest action for climate justice in New York to the first Climate Forum which was held in Turkey. During the session we will also convey impressions about the on-going 21th UN Climate Summit in Paris.
Forum
IN THE WAKE OF SOMA DISASTER
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9 December 2015 Wednesday 19:00
SALT Galata
Participants: Arman Yılmaz, Can Atalay, Evren İşler, Selen Çatalyürekli, Gamze Akarca, Cansu Dikmen, Çiğdem Yumbul
On May 13th 2014, 301 people lost their lives in a coal mine explosion in the Soma province of Manisa. On December 15th 2015 the fifth block trial concerning the disaster will take place in which the surviving coal miners will be heard. In this meeting in the Forum’s structure, there will be a discussion about the case so far, the social situation in the region following the disaster will be heard and there will be a debate concerning these issues.
The Forum will take place with the participation of the Social Rights Association lawyers Arman Yılmaz, Can Atalay, and Evren İşler; Selen Çatalyürekli who made ‘As
Everyone Knows All These’, Soma Solidarity Network Project coordinators the Specialist Psychologist Çiğdem Yumbul and Psychologist Cansu Dikmen.
Program:
19:00 Video screening: ‘As Everyone Knows All These’
(27’) / 19:30 Forum
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