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All About Freedom: Gdansk film festival explores the dimensions of liberty

14.10.2024 18:30
The European Solidarity Center in the coastal city of Gdansk is hosting the annual film festival All About Freedom.
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The festival focuses on all aspects of freedom, its various dimensions and guises.

The event opened with a discussion with  two fathers one from Palestine the other from Israel, both have lost their children in the Israeli Palestine conflict.

Rami Elhanan and  Bassam Aramin have been nomintaed to the Nobel Peace Prize for thier work in the "Parents Circle" organisation uniting parents who had lost their children in the Israeli Palestine war.

All About Freedom Festival presents feature and documentary films from all over the world  devoted to freedom, conflicts and their aftermaths but also meetings with artists and directors  as well as panel discussions and workshops.

Among the guests is Volker Schlondorff German film director, screenwriter and producer,who has won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.

Click on the audio player above to listen to a report by Radio Poland's Agnieszka Bielawska.