Visions of slavery in film at FIFET

9e International Festival of Film Against Exclusion and for Tolérance
December 5 – 13 2008
UNESCO: 7 place de Fontenoy, Paris 7

For its 9th edition, FIFET is presenting feature films on slavery in partnership with UNESCO's Slave Route project and Slave Memory Comitee (Comité pour la mémoire de l’esclavage).

World is characterized by diversity, with everyone's history and memory being part of a shared heritage. This retrospective promotes and highlights an important side of this common history.

FIFET is continuing its mission of opening the way to the other, of educating for tolerance, to a public of high school students as well as the general public. Each film is followed by discussions pointing out the mechanisms of racism and exclusion which helps fight against daily discrimination by modifying its representation.

This program coincides with the commemorations of the 160th anniversary of the abolition of slavery and the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.

Among the films presented: Band of Angels, Queimada, The Other Francisco, The Last Supper, Xica da Silva, Quilombo, Rue Case Nègres, Cobra Verde, Amistad, The Middle Passage, Beloved, Little Senegal, Manderlay, etc.

Among the invited guests: Rama Yade, Lilian Thuram, Firmine Richard, Roger Hanin, Euzhan Palcy, Sergio Giral, Raoul Peck, Danny Glover, Sotigui Kouyate, etc.