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A Films Ouverts – Film Festival Against Racism and for interculturalism in Belgium

A Films Ouverts (meaning Open Films in French) is a Film Festival aiming to open the debate on racism issues and interculturalism. The particularity of this festival lies in its media education approach that encourages participants to take a critical distances towards the images of the Other shown in movies.

A Films Ouverts est un festival du film ayant pour objectif d’ouvrir le débat sur les questions relatives au racisme et à l’interculturalisme. La particularité de ce festival réside dans son approche d’éducation aux médias qui encourage les participants à prendre des distances critiques par rapport aux images de l’Autre présentées dans les films.

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MEET Final Conference / Conférence finale MEET: Décoder le doc!

Texte en français ci-dessous.

What effects does the often negative image of young people have on themselves? How to overcome it? Which instrumentalization to denounce?
What kind of freedom has a filmmaker when he films in an institution? What space for freedom for people filmed when they are “locked up” in an institutional context ? And finally, which elements guide the director’s choices for the selection of scenes?

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Save the Date – Final Conference of MEET Project

Thursday 15 November 2018

« Decoding the doc : images, education and diversity »

Venue : Cinema Palace, Brussels City Center                             

In the framework of MEET project, a final conference is organized in Brussels about synergies and challenges between documentary production, diversity inclusiveness and media education.

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Média Animation: Open Film Contest

Are you concerned about racism and intolerance? Do you want to put forward a positive vision of interculturality? So, express yourself by participating in the thirteenth edition of the “Open Films” contest to perhaps attend the screening of your film through Wallonia and Brussels from 9 to 24 March 2018.

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Conference-debate « Media and interculturality: how to educate to critical thinking, citizen mobilization and expression?”

On the 8th of November, in the Markten (Brussels, Belgium)

A day of reflection to highlight the issue of interculturality in media education.
To face discourses of othering and intolerance spread by some media, we wish through the MEET project to develop a critical and citizen understanding of media representations. Above all, we want to encourage citizens to produce counter-discourse in order to strengthen intercultural understanding and combat discrimination.

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