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The 4th International Film Festival on Human Rights, due to open in Mexico City on 5 October, has the aim of making people more aware of the need to respect human rights. The schedule is made up of a total of 13 documentaries from Spain and Mexico about freedom of speech, womens rights, and those of the elderly, emigrants, children, and the disabled.
On 7 October, four short films will be shown in Calle Regina in Mexico Citys historic centre. In addition to this open-air auditorium, films will be screened free of charge at the Claustro de Sor Juana University and the Franz Mayer Museum, both in the Mexican capital.
Javier Moctezuma, Executive Secretary of the Mexican National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), an organisation which sponsors this festival, explained that the festival is an excellent medium for convincing citizens of the need to respect human rights. Consequently, he emphasized the social function of film as a privileged vehicle for awareness-raising, as it seeks to provoke a reaction and warn people not to infringe human rights.
The festival will open in Mexico and then tour 16 cities in Spain, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Algeria.
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