Celebrating and honouring the International Migrants Day, the 2018 Global Migration Film Festival brings films and discussions on migration
For a third consecutive year in Cyprus, the Global Migration Film Festival aims to raise awareness of migration issues. For that reason, the UN Migration Agency (IOM) Mission in Cyprus, the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Cyprus, the Press and Information Office of the Republic of Cyprus, the Ministry of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media of the Hellenic Republic and the University of Nicosia have teamed up for this Festival, to provide interesting films and discussions on migration and communications.
Τhe 2018 Global Migration Film Festival will take place in 100 countries around the world, prompting hundreds of thousands of spectators to reflect on migration issues through cinema.
The interesting discussions and interventions from communication experts and thematic specialists on migration issues will aim to educate and inform the public on the issues portrayed in the films. The screenings will showcase the challenges refugees and migrants face in their daily lives.
Join us at the 2018 Global Migration Film Festival!
Please see the films summaries here
Since 2000, the International Migrants Day has been honoured every year on 18 December. On that day in 1990, the General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
On 19 September 2016, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a set of commitments during its first-very summit on large movements of refugees and migrants to enhance their protection. These commitments are known as the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (NY Declaration). The NY Declaration paved the way for the adoption of the Global Compact for Migration that will be ratified by Member-States at the end of 2018.
Programme
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration – Welcome coffee |
| 09:00-09:10 | Opening speeches Ms Natasa Xenophontos-Koudouna, Head of Office, IOM Cyprus Ms Sophie Michaelides, Director, Press and Information Office, Ministry of Interior, Republic of Cyprus Prof. Constantinos N. Phellas, Vice Rector for Faculty and Research, University of Nicosia |
| 09:10-09:40 | Communicating Migration Policy in Greece Ms Foteini Pantiora, Special Secretary for Crisis Management Communication, Ministry of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media, Hellenic Republic |
| 09:40-10:20 | Migration in Cyprus- Discussion Mr Makis Polydorou, Acting Director, Civil Registry and Migration Department, Ministry of Interior, Republic of Cyprus |
| 10:20-10:40 | Migration and everyday challenges – Discussion Ms Natasa Xenophontos Koudouna, Head of IOM office in Cyprus |
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 13:30 | Reflecting Migration through the Lens- Discussion Facilitator: Mr Dimitrios Tsagalas, Communications Assistant-IOM Cyprus Migration and Cinema Dr Costas Constandinides, Assistant Professor, Department of Communications, University of Nicosia From the “TRUST ME” era to the “SHOW ME” era: Towards accuracy and transparency in the New Media terrain Dr Dimitris Bouras, Photojournalist- Anthropologist Reporting Migration Mr David Hands, Director’s Guild of Cyprus Representative & IOM Global Migration Film Festival Jury Committee |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30-14:40 | Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration video |
| 14:40-16:00 | The Merger (Dir: Mark Grentell) (100 mins) |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Short films Mohamed, The first name (14 mins) Salaam B’y (20 mins) Unbroken paradise (25 mins) |
| 17:00- 17:15 | Coffee break |
| 17:15-18:15 | Bushfallers (Dir: Nils Benjaming Keding) (60 mins) |
| 18:15-19:30 | Reception |
NOTE: The Global Migration Film Festival is a public event. Audiovisual recording and photographs will be taken at the event.
For more information:
Dimitris Tsagalas, Communications Assistant, The UN Migration Agency (IOM) in Cyprus
Tel: 22 77 22 70
Email: [email protected]
