PLANETE DOC in Southern Sudan
Two faraway places screening the same film – PLANETE DOC FILM FESTIVAL in the world's youngest country!
Not only will this year's edition of PLANETE DOC be held in Warsaw and 21 other Polish cities, but also... in Southern Sudan. The war between northern and southern Sudan had lasted over 20 years and took the lives of almost 2.5 million people, while 4 million others were forced to leave their homes. The 2005 peace talks led to a referendum in early January 20011, which was to establish whether Southern Sudan should gain independence or remain part of the existing country. Over 98% of voters were in favor of separating from Sudan. On July 9, 2011 the Republic of Southern Sudan will be registered as the youngest and also the poorest country in the world.
PLANETE DOC FILM FESTIVAL will be held in Juba, the future capital of the new country, on the grounds of a university that after many years operation in Khartoum has moved its campus south. During the war, the campus served as army barracks and supposedly housed Osama Bin Laden's headquaters. Now, students from Northern Sudan are returning to the university grounds.
Six films from this year's program of PLANETE DOC festival will be shown at the university. Polish and Sudanese audiences will have an opportunity to simultaneously watch the Danish documentary Blood in the Mobile by Frank Paulsen Piasecki. The film presents the dark side of globalism. The filmmaker is able to access mineral mines in civil war-stricken Congo. The metals, extracted with the use of primitive and dangerous methods, are used to produce mobile phones throughout the world. The mining profits finance Congo's civil war. Paulsen attempts to have mobile network giants issue statements that they will discontinue purchasing minerals from the war-stricken territories.
On May 12, 2011, prior to the screening of Blood in the Mobile, we will hold a live broadcast with the Juba audience.
Festival reports from Sudan will be posted on the festival's website, which will also inform how African audiences react to festival films.
Not only will this year's edition of PLANETE DOC be held in Warsaw and 21 other Polish cities, but also... in Southern Sudan. The war between northern and southern Sudan had lasted over 20 years and took the lives of almost 2.5 million people, while 4 million others were forced to leave their homes. The 2005 peace talks led to a referendum in early January 20011, which was to establish whether Southern Sudan should gain independence or remain part of the existing country. Over 98% of voters were in favor of separating from Sudan. On July 9, 2011 the Republic of Southern Sudan will be registered as the youngest and also the poorest country in the world.
PLANETE DOC FILM FESTIVAL will be held in Juba, the future capital of the new country, on the grounds of a university that after many years operation in Khartoum has moved its campus south. During the war, the campus served as army barracks and supposedly housed Osama Bin Laden's headquaters. Now, students from Northern Sudan are returning to the university grounds.
Six films from this year's program of PLANETE DOC festival will be shown at the university. Polish and Sudanese audiences will have an opportunity to simultaneously watch the Danish documentary Blood in the Mobile by Frank Paulsen Piasecki. The film presents the dark side of globalism. The filmmaker is able to access mineral mines in civil war-stricken Congo. The metals, extracted with the use of primitive and dangerous methods, are used to produce mobile phones throughout the world. The mining profits finance Congo's civil war. Paulsen attempts to have mobile network giants issue statements that they will discontinue purchasing minerals from the war-stricken territories.
On May 12, 2011, prior to the screening of Blood in the Mobile, we will hold a live broadcast with the Juba audience.
Festival reports from Sudan will be posted on the festival's website, which will also inform how African audiences react to festival films.
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