The Cineposible International Film Festival of Extremadura is organised and financed by the AEXCID (Extremaduran International Cooperation Agency for Development). The festival awards short films and Documentaries which show a real social compromise and a complaint, and it is addressed to creators who deal with the topics of the 8 Millennium Development Goals.
One of the basic pillars of the Cineposible International Film Festival of Extremadura, is to contribute to the cinematographic and audiovisual development in under developed countries of Africa, Latin America and Asia, where due to some logistic, political and/or economical problems, it is more difficult to use cinema as a tool for social and artistic expression. That’s the reason why the Festival promotes financing some cinematographic projects in the South with an economical amount that enables the seekers from those countries to materialize some cinematographic projects for which they don’t have financing. Two prizes of 10.000 Euros, one for a documentary project and another one for a short fiction film project. With this initiative, Cineposible promotes the development of culture in these countries and encourages artistic expression.
The Cineposible International Film Festival of Extremadura goes beyond the two weeks that the exhibitions last. Throughout the year, and all over the Extremaduran territory, different projections of one selection of short films and documentaries are done, transmitting the debate and the reflexion on problems that affect these countries, everywhere in Extremadura.
CINEPOSIBLE AND THE MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
The topics of Cineposible, that gave a univocal aspect to the festival, are linked since its origins to the eight Millennium Development Goals approved in September 2000 by the United Nations. They are the following ones:
1.- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2.- Achieve universal primary education
3.- Promote gender equality and empower women
4.- Reduce child mortality
5.- Improve maternal health
6.- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7.- Ensure environmental sustainability
8.- Develop a global partnership for development
12th and 13th of November.
11h30 to 13h30 and 18h30 to 20h30
Films:
The clown children, Jannicke Systad Jacobsen (Norway) (6’)
The mall on top of my house, Aditi Chitre (India) (6’)
Mona, Agnes Rossa, (France) (29’)
La caja, Jose Manuel Lo Bianco (Argentina) (2’)
I want to be a pilot, Diego Quemada-Diez (Spain) (11’)
Ma voisine et moi, Louise-Marie Colon (Belgium) (8’)
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