STORIES ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Long feature film (Omnibus), 88 min composed of 22 short movies, 3 minutes each in length for the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Written & Directed by

Marina Abramović, Hany Abu-Assad, Armagan Ballantyne, Sergei Bodrov, Charles De Meaux, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ange Leccia, Runa Islam, Francesco Jodice, Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen, Jia Zhang-Ke, Murali Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Pipilotti Rist, Daniela Thomas, Saman Salour, Sarkis, Bram Schouw, Teresa Serrano, Abderrahmane Sissako, Pablo Trapero, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Jasmila Zbanic

THE SHORT MOVIES

Dangerous Games

by Marina Abramović (color, 3 min. 34sec., no dialogue)

Boy, a Wall and a Donkey

by Hany Abu-Assad (color, 3 min. 11 sec., Arabic)

Lily and Ra

by Armagan Ballantyne (color, 3 min. 30 sec., English)

The Voice

by Sergei Bodrov (color, 3 min., Russian)

Garish Sun

by Charles de Meaux (color, 3 min., English)

Des Films à Faire

by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Ange Leccia (color, 3 min. 20 sec., French)

What About Me?

by Shira Geffen & Etgar Keret (color, 4 min.7 sec., Hebrew)

Trust

by Runa Islam (color, 3 min., no dialogue)

Breakfast

by Jia Zhang-Ke (color, 3 min., no dialogue)

Water Tale

by Francesco Jodice (color, 3 min. 44 sec., Kazakh)

The Crossing

by Murali Nair (color, 3 min., no dialogue)

La Mangue

by Idrissa Ouédraogo (color, 2 min. 45 sec., no dialogue)

Drink Your Bath Water

by Pipilotti Rist (color, 2 min. 32 sec., no dialogue)

The Final Match

by Saman Salour (color, 3 min., Persian)

La victoire sur les sachets

by Sarkis (color, 3 min.15 sec., no dialogue)

Impasse

by Bram Schouw (color, 3min. 49 sec., no dialogue)

Glass Ceiling

by Teresa Serrano (b/w, 2 min. 17 sec., no dialogue)

Production

ART for The World (Switzerland), Dorje Film (Italy)

Partners

UNRIC, Culturefrance, KEA European Affairs, Janni, Fauda e associati, NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milano, Fundacao Padre Anchieta, Dorjefilm, Technicolor, Kodak

Suported by

European Union, French Ministry of Culture and Foreign Affairs, CNC, SESC São Paulo

Crew

Conceived and Produced Adelina von Fürstenberg Music Michael Galasso Associate Producer Philippe Kern Executive Producer Flaminio Zadra Legal Advisors Guido Fauda, Janni & Fauda Associati Artistic Consultant Andrea Lissoni Post-production Supervisor Franco Casellato Graphics by Flavio de Marco Associate Curator and Liaison Officer Thomas Boehler Project Manager Pierpaolo Marcelli Editing & Titling Francesca Di Giamberardino, Stefano Pajetta Colorist Daniele Cipriani Data Managers Moreno Menchi, Pietro Troilo

FESTIVALS / PREMIERES

The film’s world première was held on 10 December 2008, on the same day and site of the original signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, at the Palais de Chaillot, Trocadero, Paris.

Premières were subsequently held in New York, Geneva and Milan.The long feature and the single short films have been distributed all over the world, appearing in more than 80 film festivals including San Sebastian, Berlin, Rotterdam, SãoPaulo, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Thessaloniki, Singapore, Shanghai, Ankara, Milan, Prague, Cape Town, Jeonju, Sydney, Brooklyn, Lisbon, Sarajevo, Kiev, Belgrade, Hong Kong, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Hamburg, and Glasgow. The film has also been widely distributed in museums, universities and schools, through international organizations such as Amnesty International and the Human Rights League, as well as via television broadcasts with Arte, Ebu, and Canal +.

AWARDS

The film was awarded Cultural Event 2008 of the European Council, which recognized a handful of exceptional and innovative artistic projects organized in Europe conveying strong messages related to the Council of Europe’s work and critical issues for European’s societies.