Eastern Europe

Crying Sun: The Impact of War in the Mountains of Chechnya. (Excerpts)

WITNESS Archive — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:38:21 -0700

Running Time: 4 Minutes.

Crying Sun: The Impact of War in the Mountains of Chechnya.

WITNESS Archive — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:20:19 -0700

Running Time: 26 Minutes.

Equal Access: Integrated Education for Romani Children in Bulgaria.

WITNESS Archive — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:01:17 -0700

Running Time: 16 Minutes.

Throughout Central and Eastern Europe, racially-based segregation denies thousands of Romani children equal academic opportunity as they attend substandard schools in Romani ghettos. In the year 2000, Romani activists from the Bulgarian town of Vidin spearheaded the first initiative for educational desegregation in Europe.

TRANSIT

MTV Staying Alive — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:57:41 -0700

Transit is a 90-minute made-for-TV film that explores sex and sexuality, and the behaviours, emotions and circumstances that lead young people to take sexual risks. It is intended to be used as a tool to open dialogue about sex and sexual decisions among young people. The goal of the film is to encourage behaviour change among young people that will motivate them to practice safer sex.

Forgotten People (Excerpts)

WITNESS Archive — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:48:41 -0700

Running Time: 1 Minute, 13 Seconds

FORGOTTEN PEOPLE documents the frightening similarities in the degrading treatment of people with mental disabilities in Mexico, Armenia, Hungary and the former Yugoslavia. Yet this problem is not confined to Latin America or Eastern Europe but extends around the globe to Western European countries and the United States.

Every Human Has Rights: Speak Out

Interview: Erik Bergkraut, director of "Letter to Anna"

matisse_witness — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:10:29 -0700

Erik Bergkraut director of "Letter to Anna" (a film nominated for the WITNESS Award at Silverdocs 2008) discusses how he met the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and why he made this film about her death and her legacy.

Equal Access: Integrated Education for Romani Children in Bulgaria

WITNESS Archive — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:54:30 -0700

Running Time: 15:55 min.

We Feed The World

Celluloid — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:15:09 -0700

Trailer from WE FEED THE WORLD by Erwin Wagenhofer, produced by Helmut Grasser.
An eye-opening documentary about scarcity and plenty.
"A view of the food industry rarely addressed on the nightly news." THE NEW YORK TIMES

Russia On Trial: Chechnya and the Euro Court Of Human Rights

HumanRightsWatch — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:15:32 -0700

The European Union should seize every opportunity to press Russia to end human rights abuses in Chechnya and other parts of the North Caucasus and ensure perpetrators are brought to justice.

Another police abuses in Chisinau!

o.brega — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:39:45 -0700

A journalist was agressed by two policemen in a high position