Human rights and Environment
Runtime: 72 min. | Recommended Ages: 12 -18
The films are screened under Greek subtitles
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"Shared Earth, Shared Rights: Navigating Our Changing World"
What connects a hidden tunnel in the Congo, a quiet dinner in Paris, the cold visiting room of a Belgian prison, and a sun-drenched olive grove in Greece?
In this year’s program, "Human Rights and the Environment," Psaroloco invites you on a cinematic journey that blurs the lines between the personal and the global. Through a powerful selection of animations and documentaries, we explore how the environments we inhabit—whether natural, social, or political—shape our freedom and our future.
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These four films give a voice to the voiceless. They challenge us to look at the cost of global exploitation, the emotional weight of migration, the invisible struggles of children separated from their parents, and the urgent rhythm of a planet under climate pressure. This isn't just a screening; it’s a call to empathy. It’s an opportunity to see the world through the eyes of others and to realize that human rights are not just laws on paper—they are the air we breathe and the soil we walk upon.
Are you ready to see the world differently?
Shorts in this lineup:
ZIKI
Animation by Roberta Palmieri, Olga Sargenti
12 min I Italy
Ziki is a Congolese boy living in a village with his mother. One day, while the two are playing, Ziki discovers a mysterious tunnel winding beneath the kitchen floor. Curious, he decides to venture in, but as he walks, he slips and falls to the bottom of the tunnel. As he travels through it, he discovers a world built on exploitation and war in his homeland.
SULAIMANI
Animation by Vinnie Ann Bose I 20min I France
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One evening, Alia and Neena, two young Indian women, each come to dinner at Sulaimani, an Indian restaurant in Paris. The meal brings back sometimes buried emotions for them and “releases” certain memories which little by little reveal to us why they left their country. Alia could no longer stand the culture of traditional India and was in conflict with her family. Neena chose to leave to provide for her husband and children back in India. If their reasons are different, they are prey to the same nostalgia during this dinner which brings them a little closer to home.
I'D LOVE TO SEE YOU
Documentary dir. by Zaïde Bil, Sébastien Segers, Petronella Van Der Hallen Ι
12 min I Belgium
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Four children guide us from the entrance to the visiting room of a prison, a place they go twice a week to see their mom or dad. Prisons aren’t built with children in mind, yet in Belgium, over 16,000 kids have a parent behind bars. ‘I’d love to see you’ gives a voice to the children of prisoners and shows how they end up in a situation they never chose.
