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Arab Master's programme in Democracy and Human Rights: first week of classes

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After three years in Venice, the Arab Master's programme in Democracy and Human Rights moved this year to Lebanon. Twenty students from across the Mediterranean and the Middle East arrived to Beirut to take part in it. It started with a presentation of the programme's four thematic sections: Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East...

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A documentary on Professor Sir Nigel Rodley's

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Human Rights in the Picture, in close collaboration with the Human Rights Centre of Essex University and Docudon Production, hopes to create a documentary on Professor Sir Nigel Rodley's remarkable life story and...

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Cinema and Human Rights during Venezia74

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Our congratulations to Biennale Cinema2017 for its Venezia74, this year the Film Festival presented many movies interested in HumanRights and Global Goals, as "Downsizing", "Human Flow", "Sweet Country", "The Insult", "Mektoub, my love: canto uno", "Una famiglia", "The Leisure seeker"...

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Venezia 74: Venice Virtual Reality

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For the first time the city of Venice and la Biennale open the full potential to new technologies that will shape our future as humanity. We experimented the opening of Venice Virtual Reality at Lazzaretto Vecchio, where its historical buildings were restored thanks to the Polo Museale del Veneto and Biennale Cinema 2017...

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Venezia 74: "Downsizing" opens the Film Festival

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The first Press Conference of Biennale Cinema 2017 started with the presentation of the Jury and the programme of Venezia 74 that opened with the movie Downsizing - screenplay of Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, with Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau and Kristen Wig. "We treat the idea as a panacea for over-population and climate change...

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