Diversity Film Festival

Refugee Week 2008

All screenings are free to all

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Refugee Week Scotland

Different Pasts, Shared Future

Monday 16 - Sunday 22 June 2008

www.refugeeweek.org.uk

www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/arts

Diversity Films Showcase

Three short films made by filmmakers working with Diversity Films

First Day at Smithycroft

dir. Smithyscoft S3, 2008, 15'

In partnership with Platform, Diversity Films worked with students from Smithycroft Secondary School over winter 07/08 to make a film about the school to help students with the transition from primary school to secondary school.

My Life

dir. Peter McMahon, 2008, est 10'

Through attending Diversity Films Weekend Film School and Platform Film Group, new filmmaker Peter McMahon's first short film looks at anti-social behaviour and bullying towards people with learning disabilities.

The Lost

dir Samad Sheidaei, Iran, 2007, 10'

Every year during the month of Hajj in the Arabic calendar, around 3,000,000 Muslims from all over the world to Mecca. Among such crowds, as in life, some people lose their way.

Document Shorts

From the archive of Document 5 International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

Letter to a Hostage, dir. Roberto Lozano, Spain 2006,7'
In a letter, a Saharan refugee relates his vision of conflict in the hope that the voices of thousands of people, abandoned by the international community and suffering injustice, may be heard.

We are the Saharawis, dir. Marta Fernandez, 2007, 25'
This film explores the lives of a refugee community; the Saharawis. Expelled from their homeland in the 1970s, they were condemned to live as refugees in one of the harshest corners of the Algerian desert. 30 years later, they are still waiting for their fate to be decided.

Interval

Complimentary Drinks and Live Jazz Music with Electric Chicken Feathers

I For India

dir. Sandhya Suri, England/Italy/Germany, 2005, 70'

In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the U.K. The first thing he did on his arrival in England was buy 2 Super 8 cameras, 2 projectors and 2 reel recorders. One set of equipment he sent to his family in India, the other he kept for himself.

A bittersweet time capsule of alienation, discovery, racism and belonging, I for India is a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera.