The KOMAS Freedom Film Festival (FFF) which started in 2004 adopts the themes encompassed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which express our aspirations for genuine justice, peace, equality and democracy. Through an annual film contest, workshops and screenings, FFF provides a platform to showcase films and documentaries focusing on social issues that affects ordinary people.
Archive for April, 2010
Screening: Taylors College
The FreedomFilmFest Roadshows will be heading to KDU College. Do join us for the screening of one of the winning FreedomFilmFest2009 films – Kayuh by Soh Sook Hwa!
Date: 5 May 2010
Time: 12.00 PM
Venue: Taylors College Lakeside Campus, Subang Jaya.
Film screening will be followed by a Q&A session.
Screening: Penusah Tanah
Penusah Tana (The Forgotten Struggle) was first screened in London as part of the Freedom Film Festival Retrospective in 2009. The documentary will be screened again at an event hosted by Solicitors International Human Rights Group. Hilary Chiew, the film-maker, will be present to discuss the film and take questions. The Malaysia-EU timber negotiations will also be discussed.
Date: 17 April 2010
Venue : BPP Law School, Room 5.7, 68-70 Red Lion Street, Holborn,
London, WC1R 4NY
Time : 13:00 – 15:00
To book, please email malaysia@sihrg.org
For over 20 years, Ajang Kiew, a Penan Leader, has been setting up road blocks to protect his land from the intrusion of logging companies. Setting up blockades or being in the vicinity of one is punishable offence in Sarawak. In this documentary, Ajang Kiew sets up one final struggle before the remaining forest is cleared for oil palm plantations.
Looking back at the historic struggle of the Penans, the film locates a pivotal moment in logging politics when foreign activists backed off from putting pressure on Malaysia to return home to lobby their own governments instead.
At the height of the anti-logging campaign in 1987, a 10 year old boy from Camberley in Surrey writes a letter to Dr.Mahathir calling the logging practices in Malaysia ‘disgraceful’. Stoked, the Prime Minister writes back with the full might of his scorn. The 3-page letter was well-publicised in the UK although the public in Malaysia was not aware that such a correspondence had taken place.
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Screenings: Monash University
Nasi Bungkus Cinema will be bringing FreedomFilmFest to you! Do join us for the screening of one of the winning FreedomFilmFest2009 films – Al Fatihah Memali by Rahmat Haron and the latest documentary by Anna Har – Selepas Tsunami (After The Tsunami) !
Date: 21 April 2010
Time: 5.30 PM
Venue: Plenary Theatre, Monash University College Malaysia (Click here for MAP)
Film screenings will be followed by a Q&A session.
Screening: KDU College
The FreedomFilmFest Roadshows will be heading to KDU College. Do join us for the screening of one of the winning FreedomFilmFest2009 films – Kayuh by Soh Sook Hwa!
Date: 27 April 2010
Time: 2.00 PM
Venue: KDU College, Damansara Utama, Petaling Jaya.
Film screening will be followed by a Q&A session.
Screening: IACT College
The FreedomFilmFest Roadshows will be heading to IACT College. Do join us for the screening of one of the winning FreedomFilmFest2009 films – Kayuh by Soh Sook Hwa!
Date: 27 April 2010
Time: 11.00 AM
Venue: IACT College, Jaya One, Petaling Jaya.
Film screening will be followed by a Q&A session.
