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FIFDH PRESENTS ITS LIST OF 2012 PRIZEWINNERS

FIFDH Grand Award

Offered by the State of Geneva, SFr 10.000.-

DUCH, LE MAITRE DES FORGES DE L’ENFER

by Rithy Panh

The jury pays tribute to a cinematographic process marked by sobriety, distance, strength and a brilliantly constructed narrative that moves implacably towards an inevitable paroxysm of horror. The film is constructed like a symphony; it offers a permanent dialogue between words and images. By unanimous decision.

Barbara Hendricks Foundation Prize for Peace and Reconciliation

In memory of Sergio Vieira de Mello, SFr 5.000.-

BETTER THIS WORLD
by Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega

The film brilliantly and decisively denounces the US judicial system via a painstaking narrative that combines idealism, courage and emotion.

Special mention

HEART OF SKY – HEART OF EARTH
by Frauke Sandig and Eric Black
A free and poetic film about memory and the connection between human beings and nature, marked by questions on the disappearance of a people fallen victim to globalization.

Grand Prize of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT)
Awarded to a film-maker whose film shows their commitment in favor of human rights.

BELARUSSIAN DREAM
by Ekatarina Kibalchich
The film’s director reminds us that human rights violations are a reality here in Europe; a reality that must not escape our attention and needs our solidarity. Those who struggle to defend human rights in Belarus and elsewhere, including those who today are in prison because of their legitimate efforts to defend human rights, deserve our support more than ever.

Youth Jury Award

This honorary prize is awarded by a jury of five post-obligatory school students to one of the films competing for the creative documentary prize.

THE AMBASSADOR
by Mads Brügger
The personal commitment of a director, who himself incarnates evil the better to denounce it, gives the film the original and provocative form that awakens the spectator’s critical sense.

NEWS

22/02/2013 - A DISCUSSION WITH LEO KANEMAN, DIRECTOR OF THE FIFDH

Since 2003, the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) has been held in Geneva in March to coincide with a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Under the motto "One film. One subject. One struggle," the FIFDH will show a series of films and documentaries about contemporary human rights: violence against women, poverty, torture, international justice and climate change.

17/01/2013 - FIFDH PRESENTS ITS NEW POSTER

(James Nachtwey, Nicaragua, 1984 - Relic of civil war become a monument in a park)

James Nachtwey is a great war reporter. Reporter, or rather talebearer, as many of his colleagues and friends are prompt to point out. Bringing the war back to our societies, too indifferent to the march of history, is what he has chosen to dedicate his life to. 

17/01/2013 - RAPE IN INDIA: POLICE FINES COUPLES AND WOMEN

In Bombay, a police squad is now in charge of giving fines to young couples and women walking alone in the streets after dark. Interviewed by the AFP, a policeman confirmed this new measure: unmarried couples and women on their own who were seen in isolated places or in park or garden corners late at night were asked not to be in this sort of place.

15/01/2013 - SYRIA: SWITZERLAND CALLS ON INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE

The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAE) published a statement yesterday calling on the Security Council to refer to the International Criminal Court to increase pressure on Syria. In the statement, Swiss authorities express their full support to victims of the conflict, bringing attention to the fact that their number now reaches 60,000. This call for a referral to the ICC was supported by 56 states.

14/01/2013 - RAPE IN SYRIA: ACTS OF WAR, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

As the French magazine Courrier International and, more recently, the AFP have emphasized, it is a weapon of unparalleled cruelty that the Syrian regime has deliberately chosen to use against its population. Rape, whether individual or collective, and often committed in front of the families of the victims, is now a major fear that leads many a Syrian family to exile.