Slovenian Philanthropy and the Voluntariat Institute are organizing a film festival for the second year in a row, which is dedicated to refugees and all migrants who, for various reasons, are forced to leave their homes and create a life outside their home environment. ...
Slovenian philanthropy and Voluntariat Institute organize for the second year in a row film festival, which is dedicated to refugees and all migrants, who for various reasons are forced to leave their homes and create a life outside their home environment. Migrations in the 21st century are still hindered by well-known reasons and circumstances, such as discrimination against individuals and groups based on ethnic, cultural or religious affiliation, or based on the personal characteristics and circumstances of individuals, such as gender and sexual orientation. The uneven economic and social development of countries at the regional and global level also ranks among the central causes of migration. At the same time, in the new century we are witnessing new phenomena and factors that, mainly due to changes in living environments, trigger new waves and directions of migration and create new 'categories' of migrants, such as environmental refugees. Migration remains one of the central global trends of the 21st century and requires a joint consideration of the possibilities for the integration of migrants into new environments and a critical view of the causes of migration and inadequacies or the unfairness of migration and asylum policies at national and international levels.
On the way migrant film festival will be held again this year on different locations; from City Museum we will migrate to KUD France Prešeren, sneak through Kino Dvor to Slovensko Kinetek and then make our way through the side streets to Stara Elektrarna, from where we will set up an evening outpost in the summer garden of Gale Hale. The content of the festival will also be diverse, as in this year's program we will conduct the film debate within four thematic sections; labor migration, European migration and asylum policies, environmental migration and the impact of globalization on modern migration.
Within these sections, in addition to the film program, we also prepared four round tables with accompanying intercultural evenings. As part of the accompanying program, with the help of experts in the field of migration, we will discuss the topics that the films will talk about. You, the audience, who will co-create the festival with us, are also invited to participate with opinions, questions and reactions. Your cooperation will contribute to the urgently needed intercultural dialogue and will enable hkata to spread and obtain additional information on migration topics.
Intercultural evenings they will enable us to test the theory gained from the round tables in practice. Migrants in Slovenia will introduce us to their own culture, which they are often forced to leave at home, behind four walls. Various migrant societies will take us into their culture, and we will get to know the diversity and richness of cultures even through the most empathetic organ of the human body, when we taste their local culinary specialties.
This year's festival is also an opportunity to we thank all the volunteers, who support migrants in Slovenia as teaching assistants, as defenders of their rights or offer them a hand in integrating into the local environment.
The guerilla nature of the Na poti festival will also be visible in the film material. We'll spin more than twenty films, featuring the testimonies of real people, refugees and migrants. Filmmakers accompanied them on their journey, lived with them in shacks and asylums, and protested in the streets. They recorded their direct experience on tape, without manipulation or special effects.
Opening of the festival will belong to two films; to the Slovenian short documentary Ta glaunu pr' pust (2009), which shows the arrival of Macedonian workers in Cerkno in an insightful way. It will be followed by the Taiwanese film Tovarna lezbijk (Lesbian factory, 2010), which shows the search for love amid the slave conditions of female workers in a 'success story' called Made in Taiwan. We will look at the dark sides of globalization and capitalism at the opening of the festival, June 17 in the City Museum. A lover of the seventh art will also address the audience there, Minister of Culture Majda Širca.
You are invited to the Na poti festival, in the company of people who don't care.
