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The film season “Cine por la Paz” (“Cinema for Peace”): art at the service of peace

The film festival organised by Movement for Peace has showed the conflict situation in Palestine through the eyes of a child.

This first film season “Cine por la Paz” took place in the context of the activities organised for the International Day of Peace on September the 21st. It was also one of the acts organised by Movement for Peace in order to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the organisation.

The film season tackled the situation of four geographical regions in which Movimiento por la Paz is working on development and peacebuilding: Middle East, Balkans, Africa and Colombia. Its aim was to make use of the seventh art as a tool and a symbol to communicate the values of tolerance, non violence and mutual understanding, that guide the work of the organisation.

The documentary “Sin piedras” (“Without stones”) was chosen to depict the Palestinian situation. This documentary is a Spanish-Palestinian co-production filmed on 2005 that shows the everyday life of two children who live in two very different places: Barcelona, where Sergi Bou lives, and a refugee camp, in the case of the child Yazan Dana . Even so, filmdirectors Quim Fuster and Pau Itarte try to demonstrate how their character´s life have more in common than we could ever expect.

As Fuster self asserts, this film is about “discovering that despite all the problems and difficulties there is no difference between two smiles”.

After the film showing, a round table and a debate took place in which the audience could talk to the director Quim Fuster, to the actor Juan Margallo and to Yolanda Rodríguez, aid worker of Movement for Peace in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.

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