Amani Great Lakes Film Festival 2007
1st
English
Amani means peace in Swahili, a language that is widely spoken in the Great Lakes region and in East Africa. The 1st edition of the Amani Great Lakes Film Festival (AGLFF) will be a gathering point for young rising filmmakers of the Great lakes region, students, film professionals, development communications practitioners and the general public interested in the role of film in promoting peace, tolerance and human rights in the Great Lakes and the whole of Africa.
The festival is guided by the theme of’The best images for peace.
Over the past decade, the Great Lakes region has been on the headlines worldwide for its genocide and ethnic cleansings, civil wars, human rights violations and intolerance. We, the Urungano Association, young organizers of the AGLFF believe that film is a medium of Peace in the region; it can be a creative expression of a personal vision of human life, a vision which is shaped by the plurality and the richness of human diversity.
Every human being is special and every nation prides itself in a particular culture, race and creed. These differences hone our ability to co-exist in dignity, solidarity and peace in the Great Lakes Region and in the whole of Africa.
So, that the participants and the general public at our festival could gain experience and have an idea of how other people in other countries deal with intolerance and human rights.
The festival is guided by the theme of’The best images for peace.
Over the past decade, the Great Lakes region has been on the headlines worldwide for its genocide and ethnic cleansings, civil wars, human rights violations and intolerance. We, the Urungano Association, young organizers of the AGLFF believe that film is a medium of Peace in the region; it can be a creative expression of a personal vision of human life, a vision which is shaped by the plurality and the richness of human diversity.
Every human being is special and every nation prides itself in a particular culture, race and creed. These differences hone our ability to co-exist in dignity, solidarity and peace in the Great Lakes Region and in the whole of Africa.
So, that the participants and the general public at our festival could gain experience and have an idea of how other people in other countries deal with intolerance and human rights.
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