For American filmmaker Steve York, documenting opposition movements and nonviolent resistance has become somewhat of a specialty over the past decade and a half. 2008’s Cairo Human Rights Film Festival featured York’s “Bringing Down a Dictator”, an account of the opposition that ousted Slobodan Milosevic. This year’s festival will showcase his most recent production, “Orange [...]

CAIRO: On December 16, 2006 the higher administrative court ruled that Egyptian Baha’is would not be issued official identity cards unless they convert to Islam, Christianity or Judaism. Ahmed Ezzat, who works for a development NGO here in Egypt, was to screen a film of the actual courtroom events and opinions of Egyptians that attended [...]

CAIRO: Steve York is the director of the documentary “Bringing Down a Dictator”, which focuses on the fall of Solbodan Milosevic, beginning with his stepping up of violence in Kosovo in 1998 and ending with his defeat in 2000 largely by the efforts of non-violent student group Otpor! (resistance in Serbian). Bikya Masr: How did [...]

CAIRO: Pavel Yahoravich Marozau is a Belarusian activist that has been involved in the politics and diaspora community for the last 5 years. He created a cartoon called “Lukashenko”, named after the current president of Belarus, that details the politic workings of his home country and the government’s infringements on their citizens’ human rights. The [...]

CAIRO: The 2009 Cairo Human Rights Film Festival commences next week with screenings from December 20 through the 23.  The Festival’s screenings will be hosted at El Balad Bookstore across from the American University in Cairo’s Tahrir campus in downtown Cairo. This year marks the 2nd annual festival organized by the Cairo office of the [...]

Orange Revolution (Arabic – 92 minutes) Film website Orange Revolution is the story of a people united, not by one leader or one party, but by one idea of a better future, in a country of their own. At the start, the election seems a foregone conclusion. Even though the opposition presidential candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, [...]

Dates: 15th -19th December Venue:Contemporary Image Center (CIC Cairo) 20 Safia Zaghloul street, from Elqasr Eleiny street, Cairo (View Map) (few steps away from Saad Zaghloul Metro Station) Tuesday December 15th: (Opening Celebration at Imperial Restaurant) – Opening speech – Introducing AIC and Cairo Human Rights Film Festival – Introducing participating films and screening teasers [...]

Tolerance, understanding peace and nonviolence are all themes of this year’s Cairo Human Rights Film Festival that runs from December 15 -19. On the flip side, it is also about war, violence and hate. Such is the world we live in, where a festival dedicated to human rights is still needed more than ever. In [...]