22.04.2008:

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Small Arms: Big
Relevance
Tuesday April 22 2008, at Parkteatret Scene
Two films and one discussion
Program: 18:15: Doors open 18:30: Film: Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms (53min) 19:30: Discussion 21:00 Film: Darwin's Nightmare (107min)
As Norway’s
export earnings from SALW (small arms and light
weapons) increase dramatically year on year, and rumours abound that
the
quantities involved are the highest per capita globally, we take a
moment to
ask, well, why? And where do these exports end up? And is it all
controlled?
As more than
half a billion small arms circulate around the
world, killing 90% of all the civilians that die in conflicts, we also
wonder-
how do the weapons end up in these conflict areas? And why is there
such a
demand? And what does it mean to come from an area where guns are
everywhere
and the killings frequent?
8 million small arms and light weapons Two films
focus on perhaps the biggest threat to peace and
security worldwide today. They do so in different ways and with
different
stories, but an urgent message lies central to both: Gun trafficking
has
managed to develop into a horribly complex, horribly destructive and
horribly
difficult to solve issue. There are all too often double morals and
blind eyes
involved, helping to perpetuate something that simply should not be
going on.
Europe and the USA
are
involved, while Norway’s
risk of being complicit is ‘manifest and likely’: loopholes exist in
our
national laws and deals are made on trust. It is time to see the
relevance of
this issue for the region we live in and for the regions suffering from
floods
of guns. Someone
is killed
by a gun every single minute of the
day.
To discuss
these issues with the audience:
Charles
Nasibu-
Journalist, researcher and refugee. (From DRCongo now living in
Nic Marsh- Researcher
PRIO, expert on
SALW international issues (English, now living in
Sander
Francken:- Director
of Dealing and
Films:
Dealing
and Directed and
Produced: Sander Franken 2006, 53mins Spoken languages: English, French and Dutch Subtitles in English when other language is spoken
Written and
Directed: Hubert Sauper 2004, 107mins Spoken language: English
NB! tekstet på norsk
Recent winner
of best documentary film from the past twenty
years at IDFA- the biggest European documentary film festival.
Other awards to Darwin's Nightmare:
Montreal New Cinema 2004 Winner NFB Documentary Award Viennale 2004 Winner Vienna Film Prize 2004 Copenhagen Dox 2004 Winner Best Film European Film Awards 2004 Winner Best Documentary Belfort 2005 Audience award best Documentary Angers, France European First Film Festival Premiers Plans 2005 Grand Jury Prize Silverdocs in US 2005 Grand prize – Sterling Award 2005 European First Film Festival Premiers Plans 2005 Grand Jury Prize Paris festival de l’environnement 2005 Grand prix Best Film Mexico Cine Contemporain 2005 Grand prize for Best Documentary Chicago Doc Festival 2005 Best Film Thessaloniki Doc FF 2005 Audience Award Oslo Eurodoc 2005 Winner Best Film Docaviv in Israel Grand Prix Best Film 2005
Mer om Darwin's Nightmare
Darwin’s Nightmare er en eksepsjonell film om globalisering, økologi, handel/våpenhandel og mennesker. Uten kommentarer og kun gjennom samtaler med mennesker og visuelle inntrykk klarer filmen å fortelle en mye større historie enn bare om de enkeltmenneskene vi møter på lerretet.
Filmen klarer på en svært god måte å gi et bilde på hvorfor det ikke er nok bare å sette i gang handel for å bedre levekårene for folk. Tvert imot har den internasjonale handelen med fisk fra området gjort det vanskeligere for flertallet av menneskene i lokalsamfunnene. Filmen gir også sterke hint om at handelen som foregår i dette området ikke bare er med fisk men at det under overflaten også foregår storstilt transport inn av våpen.
På 1960-tallet ble rovfisken Nil-abbor (Nile Perch ) satt ut i Victoriasjøen, i hjertet av Afrika, som en del av et forskningsprosjekt. Rovfisken spredte seg raskt over hele innsjøen og har i dag utryddet nesten alt annet liv. På grunn av fiskens raske formering utviklet fisket seg til en stor næring, bare ikke for lokalbefolkningen.
Daglig eksporteres over 500 tonn fisk ut av
Tanzania for å havne på markeder i Europa og Japan.
Lokalbefolkningen sitter igjen med fiskeavfallet. I intervjuene i
filmen innrømmer de russiske pilotene som står for mye av transporten
at de også bringer med seg våpen inn til området. |
See trailer of Dealing and Wheeling... here: (It may take a couple of minutes to download the picture below)
See trailer of Darwin's Nightmare here: (It may take a couple of minutes to download the picture below)
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