Translation of the video speech by Hayham Chamas. Karama Beirut
Good evening dears - our viewers (followers) wherever you are..
We come to see you through this activity presented by ANHAR (the Arab Network for Human Rights Films), in which we will screen the film "The Massaker" at the initiative of Karama Beirut and jointly with the Karama Human Rights Film Festival in Amman, and the "UMAM Research and Documentation" organization.
On the fourth of February, bullets of treachery assassinated the writer, publisher and political activist Lukman Slim, who was one of the most fervent fights for human rights and the defense of legitimacy and the constitution. Lukman is one of the directors of the "UMAM Research and Documentation" organization, which is a member of the ANHAR Network, a non-profit organization that creates an open archive of materials related to the social and political history of Lebanon, and UMAM also organizes discussions related to civil violence and the memory of war.
Lukman directed The Massacre, alongside Monica Burgmann and Hermann Theissen. The film provides details of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, which took place in 1982, narrated by the perpetrators of the horrific killings, which claimed the lives of a large number of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, most of them women, children and the elderly. These unanswered questions emerge: What drives people to such extreme brutality, and how can the perpetrators survive?
Perhaps these questions did not lose their relevance and usefulness in posing, with the assassination of Lukman Slim, who was affected by the forces of darkness, oppression and intimidation.
We in Nahar are showing this film in solidarity with Lukman to show the truth, uphold the word of truth, and reject injustice, violence, discrimination and inequality. And if we lose colleague Lukman Slim, it will only be a spark, towards more efforts, in spreading (support) human rights awareness, through cinema and films.
Film Synopsis:
MASSAKER is – both in contents and aesthetically – a psycho-political study of six perpetrators, who participated in the massacre of Sabra and Shatila both on orders and on their own personal initiative. The film intertwines the mental dispositions of the killers with their political environment and broaches the phenomenon of collective violence through their accounts.
نبذة عن الفيلم
"المذبحة"– من حيث المضمون والجمال – دراسة نفسية وسياسية لستة أشخاص من مرتكبي الجرائم الذين شاركوا في مذبحة صبرا وشاتيلا، بناءً على أوامر وبمبادرة شخصية منهم. يربط الفيلم بين التصرفات الذهنية للقتلة وبيئتهم السياسية ويطرح ظاهرة العنف الجماعي من خلال حساباتهم.
UMAM Documentation and Research (UMAM D&R):
Lebanese non-governmental organization that believes in the need to confront Lebanon's strained past if the country is to ever move out of endless cycles of violence and instability towards the establishment of lasting and enduring peace.
أمم للتوثيق والأبحاث
منظمة لبنانية غير حكومية تؤمن بضرورة مواجهة ماضي لبنان المتوتر إذا أراد البلد الخروج من دورات العنف وعدم الاستقرار التي لا نهاية لها نحو إقامة سلام دائم ودائم.
ANHAR:
The Arab Film Network for Human Rights Film and Festivals is a regional project with a pool of information and film database for human rights film festivals and screenings in the Arab region, on the basis of partnership and exchange of expertise, to build bridges between members through joined events, co productions and advocacy campaigns.
أنهار
شبكة العربية لأفلام حقوق الإنسان: مشروع إقليمي يعمل على خلق منصة مشتركة للمعلومات وقاعدة بيانات والأفلام لمهرجانات وعروض أفلام حقوق الإنسان في الوطن العربي، على أساس التشاركية وتبادل الخبرات. تهدف أنهار لبناء الجسور من خلال فعاليات وإنتاجات مشتركة بين أعضائها بالتوازي مع حملات التوعية.
Karama Beirut Human Rights Film Festival (KBHRFF)
a film event that contributes, among other well-established and renowned human rights film festivals around the world, to spreading a cinema that denounces racism, hatred discourse, discrimination and injustice.
"مهرجان كرامة - بيروت لأفلام حقوق الإنسان"
على غرار مهرجانات أفلام حقوق الإنسان المعروفة عالمياً، يُساهم في تسليط الضوء على أفلام السينما، الرافضة للعنصريّة وخطاب الكراهية والتمييز والظلم.
Karama Human Rights Film Festival
The first Human Rights Film Festival in the region since 2010 is set to take place in Amman on the 5th-10th of December, yearly at the Royal Cultural Center and extends to various cities in Jordan. Managed and organized by Ma3mal 612 Think Factory, every year, the KHRFF event includes a number of interrelated activities: screening of films (feature, documentary and short) from different parts of the world; film discussions and debates with some of the films’ production teams; seminars & workshops; ‘MusiKarama’ which entails musical concerts and dance performances; the ‘Conscious of Art’ (Art and Photo Exhibition); Karama Atelier (an 8 week workshop that takes place before the Festival for the production of relevant films to be screened during the festival); and a series of mini conferences .
مهرجان كرامة لأفلام حقوق الانسان
يقام مهرجان أفلام حقوق الإنسان الأول في المنطقة منذ عام 2010 في عمان في الفترة من 5 إلى 10 ديسمبر ، سنويًا في المركز الثقافي الملكي ويمتد إلى مدن مختلفة في الأردن . يدير المهرجان وينظمه معمل 612 للأفكار، ويشمل المهرجان عددا من الأنشطة المترابطة: الأفلام (متحركة، وثائقية وقصيرة) من دول مختلفة من العالم. مناقشات الأفلام بحضور فرق إنتاج الأفلام؛ الندوات وورش العمل؛ 'موسيقى كرامة' وهي منبر يقدم عروضاً موسيقية . ومعرض "ضمير الفن" . بالإضافة الى محترف كرامة (ورشة عمل لمدة 8 أسابيع تجري قبل المهرجان لإنتاج الأفلام الحقوقية التي سيتم عرضها خلال المهرجان)
- Year2004
- Runtime98 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryGermany, Lebanon, France, Switzerland
- DirectorMonika Borgmann, Lokman Slim, and Hermann Theissen
Translation of the video speech by Hayham Chamas. Karama Beirut
Good evening dears - our viewers (followers) wherever you are..
We come to see you through this activity presented by ANHAR (the Arab Network for Human Rights Films), in which we will screen the film "The Massaker" at the initiative of Karama Beirut and jointly with the Karama Human Rights Film Festival in Amman, and the "UMAM Research and Documentation" organization.
On the fourth of February, bullets of treachery assassinated the writer, publisher and political activist Lukman Slim, who was one of the most fervent fights for human rights and the defense of legitimacy and the constitution. Lukman is one of the directors of the "UMAM Research and Documentation" organization, which is a member of the ANHAR Network, a non-profit organization that creates an open archive of materials related to the social and political history of Lebanon, and UMAM also organizes discussions related to civil violence and the memory of war.
Lukman directed The Massacre, alongside Monica Burgmann and Hermann Theissen. The film provides details of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, which took place in 1982, narrated by the perpetrators of the horrific killings, which claimed the lives of a large number of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, most of them women, children and the elderly. These unanswered questions emerge: What drives people to such extreme brutality, and how can the perpetrators survive?
Perhaps these questions did not lose their relevance and usefulness in posing, with the assassination of Lukman Slim, who was affected by the forces of darkness, oppression and intimidation.
We in Nahar are showing this film in solidarity with Lukman to show the truth, uphold the word of truth, and reject injustice, violence, discrimination and inequality. And if we lose colleague Lukman Slim, it will only be a spark, towards more efforts, in spreading (support) human rights awareness, through cinema and films.
Film Synopsis:
MASSAKER is – both in contents and aesthetically – a psycho-political study of six perpetrators, who participated in the massacre of Sabra and Shatila both on orders and on their own personal initiative. The film intertwines the mental dispositions of the killers with their political environment and broaches the phenomenon of collective violence through their accounts.
نبذة عن الفيلم
"المذبحة"– من حيث المضمون والجمال – دراسة نفسية وسياسية لستة أشخاص من مرتكبي الجرائم الذين شاركوا في مذبحة صبرا وشاتيلا، بناءً على أوامر وبمبادرة شخصية منهم. يربط الفيلم بين التصرفات الذهنية للقتلة وبيئتهم السياسية ويطرح ظاهرة العنف الجماعي من خلال حساباتهم.
UMAM Documentation and Research (UMAM D&R):
Lebanese non-governmental organization that believes in the need to confront Lebanon's strained past if the country is to ever move out of endless cycles of violence and instability towards the establishment of lasting and enduring peace.
أمم للتوثيق والأبحاث
منظمة لبنانية غير حكومية تؤمن بضرورة مواجهة ماضي لبنان المتوتر إذا أراد البلد الخروج من دورات العنف وعدم الاستقرار التي لا نهاية لها نحو إقامة سلام دائم ودائم.
ANHAR:
The Arab Film Network for Human Rights Film and Festivals is a regional project with a pool of information and film database for human rights film festivals and screenings in the Arab region, on the basis of partnership and exchange of expertise, to build bridges between members through joined events, co productions and advocacy campaigns.
أنهار
شبكة العربية لأفلام حقوق الإنسان: مشروع إقليمي يعمل على خلق منصة مشتركة للمعلومات وقاعدة بيانات والأفلام لمهرجانات وعروض أفلام حقوق الإنسان في الوطن العربي، على أساس التشاركية وتبادل الخبرات. تهدف أنهار لبناء الجسور من خلال فعاليات وإنتاجات مشتركة بين أعضائها بالتوازي مع حملات التوعية.
Karama Beirut Human Rights Film Festival (KBHRFF)
a film event that contributes, among other well-established and renowned human rights film festivals around the world, to spreading a cinema that denounces racism, hatred discourse, discrimination and injustice.
"مهرجان كرامة - بيروت لأفلام حقوق الإنسان"
على غرار مهرجانات أفلام حقوق الإنسان المعروفة عالمياً، يُساهم في تسليط الضوء على أفلام السينما، الرافضة للعنصريّة وخطاب الكراهية والتمييز والظلم.
Karama Human Rights Film Festival
The first Human Rights Film Festival in the region since 2010 is set to take place in Amman on the 5th-10th of December, yearly at the Royal Cultural Center and extends to various cities in Jordan. Managed and organized by Ma3mal 612 Think Factory, every year, the KHRFF event includes a number of interrelated activities: screening of films (feature, documentary and short) from different parts of the world; film discussions and debates with some of the films’ production teams; seminars & workshops; ‘MusiKarama’ which entails musical concerts and dance performances; the ‘Conscious of Art’ (Art and Photo Exhibition); Karama Atelier (an 8 week workshop that takes place before the Festival for the production of relevant films to be screened during the festival); and a series of mini conferences .
مهرجان كرامة لأفلام حقوق الانسان
يقام مهرجان أفلام حقوق الإنسان الأول في المنطقة منذ عام 2010 في عمان في الفترة من 5 إلى 10 ديسمبر ، سنويًا في المركز الثقافي الملكي ويمتد إلى مدن مختلفة في الأردن . يدير المهرجان وينظمه معمل 612 للأفكار، ويشمل المهرجان عددا من الأنشطة المترابطة: الأفلام (متحركة، وثائقية وقصيرة) من دول مختلفة من العالم. مناقشات الأفلام بحضور فرق إنتاج الأفلام؛ الندوات وورش العمل؛ 'موسيقى كرامة' وهي منبر يقدم عروضاً موسيقية . ومعرض "ضمير الفن" . بالإضافة الى محترف كرامة (ورشة عمل لمدة 8 أسابيع تجري قبل المهرجان لإنتاج الأفلام الحقوقية التي سيتم عرضها خلال المهرجان)
- Year2004
- Runtime98 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryGermany, Lebanon, France, Switzerland
- DirectorMonika Borgmann, Lokman Slim, and Hermann Theissen