15:00<\/strong> Midnight Traveller<\/p>\n\n 11:00<\/strong> Short Film Screening<\/p>\n 13:00<\/strong> Palestine Screening<\/p>\n 15:00<\/strong> Nasrin’s voice<\/p>\n 17:00<\/strong> Green Border, Zielona Granica<\/p>\n\t\t Age Restriction K-12<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\nBisrat<\/strong> <\/p>\n On 3 October 2013, a fishing boat carrying Eritrean refugees sank off the island of Lampedusa. At least 368 died and 155 survived. Bisrat is part of a short film series Remembering Lampedusa where the survivors tell what actually happened.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nAisti minut<\/strong> <\/p>\nSami, who arrived in Finland from Syria, ends up in equine therapy to deal with the trauma of sexual violence in his past. He finds it difficult to trust people. But everything changes when he gets to know an old horse, Uuras. <\/p>\nKolme sukupolvea pakolaisuudessa<\/strong> <\/p>\n Three Generations is a poetic short documentary about the Western Saharans in refugee camps in Sahara desert in Algeria. Western Saharan Sahrawis escaped into the desert after Morocco and Mauritania occupied the Western Sahara in mid 1970s. Conflict is still unresolved and many of the escaped Sahrawis still live in refugee camps. The film was born after the young director visited the camps in 2011 and 2015 and wanted to tell about the silenced fate of Western Saharans.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nAysha<\/strong> Aysha shares a story of two young girls living through a harrowing war and family tensions. Aysha (10) and her sister (11) are out to a religious test in a backyard in Rojava, Syria. The stronghead Aysha is struggling with identity and secrets and takes a stand.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nYou can’t stop the music<\/strong> <\/p>\n What happens when you can no longer practice the profession that is part of your identity? You Can’t Stop the Music is a portrait from today’s Afghanistan, where life in the shadow of the Taliban can at times seem surreal.<\/p>\n When the Taliban took over Afghanistan, Akbar Adeli was a music student at Kabul University. For conservative Afghans, music had been suspect even before the Taliban takeover, but it soon became a gamble with one’s life – especially since Akbar plays Western pop music.<\/p>\n Akbar stashed his guitar in a secret hiding spot, but the pull of music was too great. When a friend asked him to play in a project, Akbar fetched his guitar, put it in a sack and started rehearsing with the group. Eventually, however, the Taliban were tipped off, and Akbar returned his guitar to its hiding place. Now he dreams of a time when freedom has returned to Kabul, when artists, journalists and musicians are free to pursue their vocations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Before long, the Taliban will take Akbar to task. Akbar and his parents are forced to make a difficult decision about Akbar’s future.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Screening is open for all!<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n When the Taliban puts a bounty on Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two daughters. Hassan Fazili, his wife Fatima Hossaini who also is a filmmaker and their young daughter Nargis have documented the journey with mobile phone cameras.<\/p>\n Capturing the journey, Fazili shows the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.<\/p>\n\t\t Age Restriction K-12<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\nHow to Please<\/strong> <\/p>\n How to Please tells the story of Iraqi Wed Al-Asad who gets stuck in Finnish asylum system. He tries his best to fill the machinelike labyrint’s wishes but notices that only thing harder than getting in is getting out.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nDead end<\/strong> <\/p>\n Afghan family has been forced to flee their home and is staying in Greece as asylum seekers. Important asylum interview is drawing close, the threat of deportation is pressing and the family’s hidden secret both brings them together and divides them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nAway<\/b> <\/p>\n A portrait of 16-year-old Ukrainian refugees Andrey and Alisa, who help out at a school for refugee children in Budapest.<\/p>\n After school, the young couple makes colorful protest artwork out on the streets of the Hungarian capital, sparking discussions between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian passersby.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n Flying Paper leads us to rich Palestinian kite making and flying culture. It follows group of kite hobbyist in Seifa village situated in North Gaza, close to the border with Israel. Children of the village are trying to break Guinness world record with flying more kites than ever before. At the same time the movie gives us the picture of future prospects of Gazan youth.<\/p>\n RFF screens the films short follow up where we return to village of Seifa and the lives of the youth four years later.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n Refugee Film Festival shows a new Finnish documentary Nasrin’s voice.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nasrin got married when she was 13 years old and soon she became a mother. Nasrin, who is Kurdish came to Finland with her husband and here she got the possibility to go to school and study. Life in Finland changed Nasrin’s way to think and she wanted a divorce. Because of this, her husband kidnapped their three daughters and took them to his home country Iraq. The film Nasrin’s voice tells about Nasrin’s fight to get her children back and it is also a story of a young woman’s awakening.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t KINO TAPIO<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fear, hunger and violence at the EU’s borders. Agnieszka Holland’s topical film is set on the ”green border” between Poland and Belarus, where refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Africa are stranded. The shocking, almost documentary-like drama forces us to see how brutally Europe pushes people – children, women, men and the elderly – seeking refuge from its borders. At the same time, volunteer Polish activists try to provide them with medical and legal assistance, and a young border guard is left to wonder what he is doing<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Content warning: the film contains distressing scenes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The film will be shown at\u00a0 Kino Tapio, Kauppakatu 27.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" REFUGEE FILM FESTIVAL: JOENSUU 22.-23.3.2024 Schedule The festival will be held in Ravintola Kerubi , Siltakatu 1, except for the last screening Green Border, Saturday 17:00 will be held at Kino Tapio, Kauppakatu 27 Free entrance to all screenings! FRIDAY 22.3. 12:00 Secondary School Screening 15:00 Midnight Traveller FRIDAY\u00a023.3. 11:00 Short Film Screening 13:00…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-255","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nFRIDAY\u00a023.3.<\/h4>\n
Movies<\/h2>
Friday<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t
![\"oppilaitosn\u00e4yt\u00f6s](\"https:\/\/rff.turvapaikanhakijoidentuki.fi\/kiertue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/oppilaitosnaytos-www.jpg\" "\\"oppilaitosn\u00e4yt\u00f6s")
\n\t\tSecondary School Screening<\/h3>
\nDirected by Anna Blom
\n11 min, D
\nLanguage: Somali
\nSubtitles: English\n
\nDirected by Ada Johnsson and Youssef Asad Alkhatib
\n5 min, F
\nLanguage: Finnish\n
\nAisti minut (Eng. I Am Here) short film is a story about friendship and building trust again in equine therapy. Based on true events.\n
\nDirector: Kerttu Matinpuro
\n2016
\n11 min
\nLanguage: Finnish, French
\nFinnish and English subtitles\n
\nDirected by Cengiz Akaygun
\n2021, 13 min, F
\nLanguage: Kurdish, Arabic
\nSubtitles: English\n
\nDirected by Hashim Didari
\n25 min, D
\nLanguage: Dari
\nSubtitles: English\n![\"midnight](\"https:\/\/rff.turvapaikanhakijoidentuki.fi\/kiertue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/midnight-traveller-www.jpg\" "\\"midnight")
\n\t\tMidnight Traveller<\/h3>Directed by Hassan Fazili
\n86 min.
\nLanguage: Dari
\nSubtitles: English
\nAge Restriction K-12<\/strong>\nSaturday<\/h3>\t\n\t\t\t\t
![\"lyhytelokuvan\u00e4yt\u00f6s](\"https:\/\/rff.turvapaikanhakijoidentuki.fi\/kiertue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/lyhytelokuvanaytos-www.jpg\" "\\"lyhytelokuvan\u00e4yt\u00f6s")
\n\t\tShort Film Screening<\/h3>
\nDirected byElina Talvensaari
\n2023, D, 28 min.
\nLanguage: English\n
\nDirected by Ahmad Ebrahimi
\n15 min, F
\nLanguage: Dari
\nSubtitles: English\n
\nDirected by Ruslan Fedotov
\n2022,29 min
\nLanguage: Ukrainian
\nSubtitles: English\n![\"flying](\"https:\/\/rff.turvapaikanhakijoidentuki.fi\/kiertue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/flying-paper-www.jpg\" "\\"flying")
\n\t\tPalestine Screening<\/h3>Flying Paper<\/strong>
\nDirected by Nitin Sawhney & Roger Hill
\n2013, D, 51 min
\nLanguage: Arabic
\nSubtitles: English
\nAge Restriction K-7<\/strong>\n![\"nasrin's](\"https:\/\/rff.turvapaikanhakijoidentuki.fi\/kiertue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/nasrins-voice-www.jpg\" "\\"nasrin's")
\n\t\tNasrin’s voice<\/h3>Nasrin’s voice<\/strong>
\nDirected by Kaisa Rastimo
\nFinland, 2024, 74 min
\nLanguage: Finnish, Soran\u00ee, Turkish
\nSubtitles: English
\nAge Restriction K-12<\/strong>\n![\"green](\"https:\/\/rff.turvapaikanhakijoidentuki.fi\/kiertue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/green-border-traveller-www.jpg\" "\\"green")
\n\t\tGreen Border, Zielona Granica<\/h3>Directed by Agnieszka Holland
\n152 min, F, 2023
\nLanguage: Polish, Arabic, English, French
\nSubtitles: English
\nAge Restriction K-16<\/strong>\n