19th 20th and 21th of June 2009
@ the BFI Southbank, London, UK
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For the third year running, Nueva Generation and RefugeeYouth presents Refuge in Films 2009 at the British Film Institute (BFI). Refuge in Films festival is dedicated to raising awareness about refugee and migrant issues. In 2009, the festival is being entirely developed by a group of young people. By giving a voice to young refugees, the festival will address issues of representation of refugees and migrants in the film industry and will be a space of celebration, contributing to a more tolerant society.
The festival has been curated by a group of young people (19-25 years old) from New Generation and RefugeeYouth that come from different countries: Colombia, Somalia, Ethiopia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Zambia, Congo, Sudan, Rwanda, Palestine, Kosovo, Algeria, Angola, Guinea, Mauritius, Bangladesh, France and England. They met weekly over three months to watch films and discuss them from different angles and came up with an amazing programme to be presented at the BFI for the celebration of Refugee Week,
Refuge in films 2009 has developed a Film Challenge in which young people produced short films about immigration and refuge in collaboration with professional filmmakers and Grain Media.
The grand opening of Refuge in Films 2009 will take place on Friday the 19th of June, at the Delegates Centre BFI, where we are screening the films produced by young people especially for the festival at our film challenge. In addition RefugeeYouth will be launching “Becoming a Londoner†a book produced by young people, about their own experiences in the process to become part of their new city. We are preparing dance and music performances it will be a night in which young people form different communities in London will get together to share their diversity.
During Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June, Refuge in Films will present a programme of films to be published, and alongside the films there will be different visual workshops for young people at the BFI Southbank’s Delegate Centre, and a photography exhibition by Mustakbal and World Remix artists.
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These are some pictures from the films at Refuge in Films 09