War from the Victims’ Perspective – Photographs by Jean Mohr

Saturday, 23.08.2014 – Sunday, 26.10.2014, Exhibition

Exposition

A Mozambican boy looks through a window with a bullet hole
Mozambican refugees, presentations and singing in the school in Nyimba, Zambia, 1968 ©

Pensive mimic, laughing faces and searching eyes give the viewer a taste of what it is like to be caught up in a war. In Jean Mohr's photographs, hope and human dignity in such situations play a key role.

Following a tour to a very wide variety of places around the world, the some 60 black and white photographs of people in war zones are now being exhibited in the Landesmuseum Zürich. For this exhibition the FDFA and the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne collaborate in an unusual way, using art to raise people's awareness of the humanitarian issues.

Location: Landesmuseum Zürich

Wednesday, 06.08.2014 – Saturday, 16.08.2014

Cultural event; Movie

The SDC supports the Locarno film festival’s promotion of independent film-makers from the South and East. The festival promotes these film-makers in its Open Doors section. This year, the focus is on countries in sub-Saharan Africa where mainly English or Portuguese is spoken such as Angola, Botswana, Cape Verde, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

From these countries, 12 film-makers have been chosen for the Open Doors section. During the festival, they will have the opportunity to take part in a training session on how to optimise marketing, show their project to potential partners, and participate in workshops.

Once the workshops have been concluded, the most promising projects will receive an award on 12 August. The first prize worth CHF 50,000 will be awarded by Open Doors together with the City of Bellinzona and the Swiss production fund “visions sud est“, which is also supported by the SDC. Additional prizes will be awarded by the French “Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée“ (CNC) and television channel ARTE.

Various films from the region in focus will be shown at the festival.

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