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Tune in for a q&a with The Lesson’s director Elena Horn at 11 am EST (4 pm BST) ahead of the film premiere. The q&a can be accessed for free at Rhode Island International Film Festival
Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, ranked as one of the top 10 U.S. festivals
Today our film The Lesson premieres at
FLICKERS' Rhode Island International Film Festival! It goes live at 5:30 pm EST (10:30 pm BST) and can be accessed here: https://prog.tsharp.xyz/en/riiff/38/film/5887/The-Lesson
Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, ranked as one of the top 10 U.S. festivals
🎞Our director Elena Horn gives us an ambulance volunteer's perspective in her new documentary 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧.
✨Check it out and tune in for her talk on filmmaking in a pandemic with Gemma Bradshaw of One World Media.
Thu, 30 April 2020 | 5pm BST
Congratulations to Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince! 🎊
Screening tonight for our short documentary, Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince!
Can you guess in which country?
Check out below 👇🏻
Our Directors Elena Horn and Alessandro Leonardi are already in the beautiful town of Ioánnina in Greece.
Tonight at 8:30 PM our film, Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince is screening at the Ioánnina Arts Centre! 🎉
We are very proud of our film, Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince and cannot wait to have our next festival screening at the prestigious kontrast - Das Bayreuther Filmfest.
📽Are you looking forward to our next screening on 29 February at the kontrast - Das Bayreuther Filmfest?
Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince Türkei | 2019 | 10 Minuten | Dokumentation | Englisch/Arabisch u. a., engl. UT | Regie: Elena Horn, Alessandro Leonardi Inhalt: Eine Gruppe internationaler Studierender wird mit verschiedenen Flüchtlingskindern aus Syrien zusammengebracht, um sich über ihre ...
We are incredibly proud of Gesamtschule Fröndenberg as they participated in the Schule ohne Rassismus - Schule mit Courage Bundeskoordination - "School without racism" project to actively fight racism in their school.
As part of the ceremony receiving their award, they had the opportunity to watch our film Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince and talk to the Directors.
We truly hope that we can contribute to fighting racism among children and young people by taking our film to schools and young audiences.
The high school, Gesamtschule Fröndenberg participated in the Schule ohne Rassismus - Schule mit Courage Bundeskoordination - "School without racism" project to actively fight racism in their school. One of our Directors, Elena Horn is a partner in this project training the children in their critical analysis of the media.
On 27 January the school received their official certificate of “Schule ohne Rassismus. Schule mit Courage” - "School without racism. School with courage".
🎉We would like to send our warmest congratulations to the students who participated in the course!
We sincerely hope that they will become ambassadors of solidarity and anti-racism in their communities.
During the award ceremony, we screened Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince which truly moved the audience. We could see some tears blink in the audience’s eyes. The mayor of Fröndenberg and the headmaster of the school were also present at the ceremony, as well as Alessandro Leonardi, Co-Director of the film.
📸: Elena Horn, Co-Director of Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince
"As the experience of the death camps begins to fade from living memory, there are signs that, in a period of resurgent nationalism and xenophobia, postwar taboos are losing some of their force and historical revisionism is being deployed to buttress senses of national self-esteem."
Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day and also the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
the victims of this great tragedy of human history with our film, The Lesson, which is a timely call for better education on the topic.
Editorial: The horrors of Auschwitz and other N**i death camps will soon be lost to living memory. But the recent rise in xenophobic nationalism underlines the need never to forget
A surprisingly high percentage of French young adults are not familiar with the Holocaust. Our new film, The Lesson is a timely reminder.
The survey also found that 20% of young French respondents believe that anti-Semitic views are "acceptable"
Are you following our new film The Lesson?
"Hatred only triumphs when courage has crumbled"
Thank you for the review Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein (UN Human Rights Chief 2014-2018).
We are excited to announce that our film, Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince was selected to screen at the 2020 kontrast - Das Bayreuther Filmfest! 🎉🍕
We would like to wish a very happy new year to all our followers! We are starting 2020 with amazing news: our film, Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince has been selected to screen at the prestigious 2020 kontrast - Das Bayreuther Filmfest ! 🎉
The film will be on the big screen on 29 February 2020 at 4 pm. After the screening, our directors, Elena Horn and Alessandro Leonardi will be present and happy to answer any questions of the audience.
Looking forward to seeing you there if you are around!
Programme: https://www.kontrast-filmfest.de/filmfest-programm/
RUYA MAPS’ mission is to support artists working in, or concentrating on, areas of political instability, while addressing the need for a wider global conversation about loss, betrayal and exploitation.
The HEARTBREAK exhibition was their first presentation at the Venice Biennale, the works on display explored the collective heartbreak felt by communities experiencing war and conflict. You can find more information on the Exhibition here: https://www.ruyamaps.org/heartbreak-exhibition
Their podcast on different experiences of heartbreak and war is now available online: https://soundcloud.com/ruyamaps/episode-5-war
https://www.ruyamaps.org/heartbreak-features/podcast
In the first segment of the podcast, our film making duo, Elena Horn and Alessandro Leonardi are discussing the process behind making their documentary film Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince, and how it represents refugees differently.
This final episode of the podcast series looks at the underlying the cause of many of the different experiences of heartbreak we have explored, war. It draws on the connection between war and the peop
Our new film, The Lesson shows how even in a modern
and developed state, such as Germany, the remnants of a shameful past still live on and help shape the younger generations.
Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/266655572
"It is in part my personal relationship with the topic which drives me to make this film and the desire to reject the premise that the Holocaust is either ‘inexplicable’ or completely relegated to a previous age."
- says our Director, Elena Horn
Open Citadel's film, The Lesson shows how even in a modern
and developed state, such as Germany, the remnants of a shameful past still live on and help shape the younger generations.
Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/266655572
We are honoured to have our film, Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince screened at the Media Festival of the Society for Photographic Education.
The festival has featured innovative and provocative short documentaries, animation and fiction by, for and about women and minorities since 1995.
Exciting news for today! 🎉
"Alevtina’s film highlights that the refugee crisis is not a European problem, but rather a global problem."
to half a year and more than a dozen festivals ago...
By: THO Non-Resident Fellow, Sarah Khalbuss
We would like to share the exciting news that our film Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince has received Award of Excellence at the Impact DOCS Awards.
We are honoured to have our film selected for such an award and thrilled to present it at St. Louis International Film Festival tomorrow! https://www.cinemastlouis.org/sliff/pizza-democracy-little-prince
Ahead of the screening of our film, Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince at the St. Louis International Film Festival tomorrow, we would like to share the exciting news that our film has received Award of Excellence at Impact DOCS Awards.
Impact DOCS Awards is a truly international, prestigious awards competition celebrating the power of documentary films to make substantive change in the world.
We are honoured to have our film selected for the award and thrilled to share it with the audience of the St. Louis International Film Festival tomorrow! https://www.cinemastlouis.org/sliff/pizza-democracy-little-prince
On 7 October our film, Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince, was screening at the University of Pennsylvania as part of The Gazi Research Project's event.
We are grateful for the invitation and happy to share our film with a wider audience.
We are thrilled to announce that our new film, The Lesson, is coming soon! Follow this page for further information and updates.
At 14, every German school kid learns about the Holocaust for the first time. “The Lesson” follows four children through their adolescence between the…
We were thrilled to be invited to screen our film, Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince at the UN Headquarters in New York last week.
Following the screening, the panel discussion was led by Ambassador Farukh Amil, Former Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN, Kristina Wilfore of Karakoyun Strategies and film director, Elena Horn.
Looking forward to our next event at University of Pennsylvania today: Refugees: The Media’s Influence on Minds and Policies.
Our 5th Annual will take place AUGUST 23- 25, 2019 in Washington, D.C.
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Today our film is screening in Baltimore at the Say It Loud Film Festival! We are excited to share the film with yet another amazing audience.
Very proud of our talented filmmakers Elena Horn - Hit The Rails and Alessandro Leonardi!
Our short film Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince at Valletta Film Festival today to commemorate World Refugee Day!
UNHCR Malta is organising an activity in Pjazza San Gorg, Valletta, and this will be followed by a film screening in collaboration with Valletta Film Festival.
We are pleased to share with you a new short documentary created with the support of Lush Film Fund (LUSH UK), in collaboration with Give A Hand and Open Citadel: The Syrian Twin Teenagers That Educate Their Ghetto.
Directed by: Alessandro Leonardi
Produced by: Elena Horn, Alevtina Nepomniachtchikh
The global refugee crisis has reached unprecedented proportions in its scale and severity, the likes of which haven’t been seen since World War II. Amongst those most affected are the one million school-age children seeking refuge in Turkey, with over a quarter of these concentrated in Istanbul al...
Today at 9:15pm Pizza, Democracy & The Little Prince will screen at the NorthwestFest in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We are very excited to share the film with the audience!
We are delighted to announce that Pizza, Democracy & the Little Prince has been selected to screen at another festival! This time NorthwestFest in Canada! We cannot wait to share our film with the audience in Alberta.
Exciting news from our film!
We are delighted to announce that Pizza, Democracy & the Little Prince has been selected to screen at another festival! This time NorthwestFest in Canada! We cannot wait to share our film with the audience in Alberta.
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