Fourth edition of International Human Rights Film Festival Albania

The fourth edition of the International Human Rights Film Festival Albania kicked off on September 29th. Some thirty seven movies and documentaries from all over the world, portraying different subjects on human rights, will be screened for the Albanian public at Marubi Multimedia and Film Academy premises. Some of the issues the movies will cover include, drug problems, AIDS, homosexuality, children and women rights etc.
The first movie to be screened is “Maria full of grace” by director Joshua Marston (USA), starring Catalina Sandino Moreno. The movie tells the story of the pregnant seventeen years old Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) supports her family with her salary working in floriculture in a small town in Columbia. She is fired and with a total lack of perspective of finding a new job, she decides to accept the offer to work as a drug mule, flying to USA with sixty-two pellets of cocaine in her stomach. “Maria full of grace” is winner of different international awards.
The most important novelty of this year’s edition is that after each screening there will be discussion forums with high school students about human rights issues.
Marubi Film and Multimedia Academy has been organizing this event since 2006 in collaboration with different foreign organizations and embassies working in Albania.