El Impacte, the Catalan Film and Human Rights festival, reaches its third edition from May 3 to 21 with a program focused on emerging rights in which health and animal rights will be represented, the fight LGTBIQA, environmental activism or other topics as current as gender violence and armed conflicts. The contest can be enjoyed in person at the venues in Barcelona (Cinemes Girona from May 3 to 7), Girona, Lleida and Reus, and online on the Filmin platform, which will screen a selection of titles until May 21.
The inaugural film will be directed by Simfonia per un món nou, by Jordi Llompart, a work between the documentary and the experimental that presents a vision of the world we have and provokes reflection on the world we want based on an attractive conjunction of images and the music of Roger Subirana.
From Chile will be seen on May 4 Extraordinary. United in Neurodiversity, a documentary about autism and female empowerment. That same day there will be a short film session and another documentary, Els negotiators. Com construir la pau, offers us an inquisitive look at the identity and evolution of the mediators who seek solutions to the armed conflicts of the 21st century.
The co-production between France and Rwanda entitled Paraules de silenci focuses on the victims of the Rwandan genocide of 1994. The claim for animal rights is present in the Belgian thriller Llibertat, starring a young zoo guide who feel a great connection with nature. In Hotel Savoy, Israeli Zohar Wagner tells the story of Kochava Levy, a Jewish woman who acted as an impromptu mediator between Palestinian terrorists and Israeli forces while being held hostage herself in the deadly terrorist attack on Tel Aviv’s Savoy Hotel in 1975.
The Impact! It will also address the issue of anorexia in Petricor, about three women from different generations who live with an eating disorder, or the case of police violence and abuse against women that is revealed by The Tourist Against the French Police, directed by Ovidie . On May 7th there will be space for pieces such as Temps despietats – Cançons de cures, a portrait of the privatization of the geriatric residential sector in Finland or Les fabuloses, on gender identity.
On the closing day it will be possible to watch Maldita. A love song to Sarajevo, a documentary directed by Raúl de la Fuente and Amaia RemÃrez, winner of the Goya for best short documentary starring Bozo Vreco and Clara Peya, which is a cry for life, freedom and tolerance.