DHARAMSHALA, February 4: A Tibetan documentary film titled ‘Banned Expression’ highlighting the state of freedom of speech in Tibet will be screening at Human Rights Human Wrongs Film Festival currently underway in Oslo, Norway.
‘Banned Expression’ is an awareness campaign focusing on the Right to Freedom of Opinion, Expression and Information in Tibet. The campaign was first launched on the Human Rights Day 2013 in India jointly by Voice of Tibet and Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy.
At the premiere scheduled on February 6, Dechen Pemba, founder and editor of ‘High Peaks Pure Earth’ website and Oystein Alme of VOT will make presentations along with Tibetan musician and singer Loten Namling at the film festival.
Over a hundred Tibetan writers, poets, artistes, intellectuals and cultural figures promoting national identity and culture have been arrested, tortured and imprisoned since the 2008 uprising in Tibet, say Tibetan exiles.
A six-day film festival will screen around 30 documentary films, feature an art exhibition, school screenings, with the goal of increasing human rights awareness amongst teenagers, larger debates, concerts and performances.
Last year, the festival screened award winning Tibetan documentaries “Leaving Fear Behind,” “The Sun Behind the Cloud,” and “Tibet in Song”.
The Human Rights Human Wrongs Film Festival is organised by The Human Rights House Oslo and Oslo Dokumentarkino (the Oslo Documentary Cinema).
The first version of the festival was organised in December 2008 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Human Rights Declaration and since 2010, the Festival has been an annual event.
