In the middle of December 2016, the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption is preparing the Film against Corruption film festival for the third time in the Cinematheque. As a mark of the International Anti-Corruption Day (December 9), the festival will take place from December 12 to 17, 2016, during which time five top films will be screened on the screen on the topic of whistleblowers, corrupt practices, the fight against corruption, and lobbying. etc.
Movie against corruption 2016 will be the third film festival against corruption, which Commission for preventing corruption prepared in cooperation with Cinematheque. This time it will be held from December 12 to 17, 2016 as part of the anti-corruption week.
The purpose of the festival is through popular culture, specifically with the help of film, draw attention to the issue of promoting integrity in society and highlight the importance of the fight against corruption and raise awareness of the issue, to which we all too often turn a blind eye. We can take a look five top movies, each of which vividly presents the mentioned topics in their own way.
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As part of the anti-corruption film festival, on December 13, 2016, a round table on the topic of whistleblowing, which will be followed by a screening of the film Snowden.
Program of the Film Against Corruption 2016 festival:
- Bob Roberts - 12 December 2016, 7.30pm: Opening, 8.30pm: Film
- Snowden - 13 December 2016, 17:00: round table, 18:30: film
- The Corrupt Lieutenant: New Orleans –14. December 2016, 21:00
- The Prophet - December 16, 2016, 6:30 p.m
- Gomorrah – December 17, 2016, 8:00 p.m
Films at the Film Against Corruption 2016 festival:
Bob Roberts
Tim Robbins, USA/UK, 1992
A Republican senatorial candidate with outspoken right-wing, fascist political beliefs, which he pours with great enthusiasm and love into sing-along country songs with which he convinces his voters, is embarking on an election tour of the country. A striking image of the morbid symptoms of modern 'democracy': greed, intolerance, the worship of appearances, the omnipotence of the media. A venomous, documentary-directed and mature political satire, the directorial debut of actor Tim Robbins paints contemporary politics as a direct and almost excluded product of television.
Snowden
Oliver Stone, Germany/USA/France, 2016
Three years ago, the name Edward Snowden flooded almost all the world's media. A former employee of the US National Security Agency (NSA) has revealed the true extent of the surveillance of telephone and online information carried out by the US at home and abroad by revealing thousands of secret government documents.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Werner Herzog, USA, 2009
Terrence McDonagh is a police detective investigating murders in New Orleans. During the rampage of Hurricane Katrina, he saves a prisoner from drowning and is rewarded by his superiors with a promotion to lieutenant. However, because he badly injured his back while being rescued from the water, he is sentenced to take strong painkillers. A year later, Terrence tries to stitch up a drug dealer who brutally murdered a family of African immigrants. The investigation takes him into the criminal underworld of New Orleans while he himself struggles with addiction to sex, drugs and cocaine.
Un prophete
Jacques Audiard, France/Italy, 2009
Malik El Djebena, a 19-year-old boy who can neither read nor write, is sentenced to six years in prison. When he arrives to serve his sentence, he feels infinitely lonely. He is much younger and weaker than the other prisoners. Shortly after his arrival, the leader of a group of Corsican prisoners who enforce their rules in the prison subjugates him and imposes a series of 'tasks' on him. When he does them, Malik quickly hardens, gets to know the relationships between the prisoners and the rules of prison life, and finally gains the complete trust of the leader of the Corsican group. But Malik is not only a quick learner, he also has a lot of audacity; so soon he secretly begins to develop his own network and ambitious plans.
The violent and fascinating comprehensive work brings us an interesting insight into the French criminal underworld, in which the prison appears as a metaphor for the entire society. The French Godfather!
Gomorrah
Matteo Garrone, Italy, 2008
Weapons, power, money, blood: these are the values that rule in Naples and Caserta. We witness a few days in the lives of the inhabitants of this merciless world, inhabitants who have no choice and must respect the rules of the system - the Camorra. Only a lucky few can live a normal life. Gomorrah depicts clan wars and general bribery of all kinds. Film adaptation of Robert Saviano's best-selling anti-mafia book. A tense, condensed and at times violent thriller that won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes in 2008.
