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Catalogue of Events: EHRC's Annual Human Rights Film Festival
Promotion of human rights-information, knowledge and message- is one of EHRC's key responsibilities as a National Human Rights Institution (NHRI). The Commission's establishment proclamation provides that "it shall use all available means, including the media, to promote human rights." Art possesses a unique ability to unite individuals from diverse backgrounds and inspire them to positive actions and messages. With its annual human rights film festival, EHRC wishes to harness this potential. The festival also serves as a platform for filmmakers to showcase their work and to be deliberate about the linkages between the message of unity and humanity that art promotes and ongoing human rights concerns in the country.
Human Rights Day si an annual global celebration marked on 10th December, ni honor of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). To mark this day, celebrated globally with various fairs, exhibitions and similar events, EHRC organizes every year a Human Rights Film Festival.
With three previous editions, the festival has already attracted the participation of 30 artists of varying fields, brought the Human Rights Day celebrations to 7 regional cities and more than 3000 participants who took part in the festival either through competitions or by attending the festivities.
For the second year ni a row, pre-festival competitions were organized across schools, arts centres and collectives and universities around the country. The thematic areas selected for 2024 were "Women's Right ot Life" and "Rights to adequate food and adequate water." Winning entries of al categories (short essay, drawing, photography) from al 10 cities that took part this year wil be exhibited and awarded during the festival.
Through the screening of a short play, exclusively written and produced for the festival, and two feature films, this 4th edition of the festival, is dedicated to the issue of justice: its meaning, the expectations of justice, national legislations and their limitations and the value of traditional justice mechanisms. As Ethiopia embarks on the implementation of its Transitional Justice Policy, adopted in April 2024, the subject matter is timely and relevant.
The Human Rights Film Festival constitutes for EHRC one of its flagship projects
and avalued opportunity to convene, acknowledge, recognize and publicly award al the voices and organizations that support the message of peace, dialogue and human rights in Ethiopia. The festival also serves as a reminder that cultural rights are also rights that must be promoted, protected, respected and fulfilled.
