2nd Human Rights Film Festival Kicks off in Delhi

Over 16 films from all parts of the world focusing on issues like violence, fundamentalism and corruption to gender discrimination and homophobia will be screened during the second edition of Flashpoint Human Rights Film Festival at the Alliance Française de Delhi in New Delhi from Feb. 3–5, 2012.

Feroze Gujral, eminent media and fashion personality, and the director of the philanthropic art foundation Outset India, and Max Claudet, Cooperation And Cultural Counsellor, French Embassy will inaugurate the three-day festival.

Films from Kenya, Senegal, Colombia, Israel, Iraq, Kurdistan, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Cameroon and the US will be screened. This year six films set in India — "Firaaq," "Mee Sindutai Sakpal," "Cotton For My Shroud," "Made In India," "In Search Of My Home" and "Pink Saris" — will also be showcased.

The festival is organized by Solaris Pictures in collaboration with Alliance Française de Delhi, Movies That Matter and Ramon Productions.

On the inaugural day, project Bolo, a comprehensive LGBT oral history project that records 20 LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) persons in four cities who open up in a candid manner to offer an inside view into their lives, views and accomplishments, will be launched.