The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) provides assistance and protection to the world’s refugees. According to the UNHCR, more than “45 million people have been forcibly displaced outside or inside their own country around the world.” One person gets forcibly displaced every 4 seconds. With the escalating violence in Syria these days the refugee situation is only getting worse.
Each year, UNHCR sponsors a film festival that features refugee crises from a wide variety of perspectives, sometimes through documentaries and sometimes in the form of drama. This year’s festival will be held from Sept. 28th – October 6th. Some of the screenings will be held right here at Aoyama Gakuin University!
EVENT: 8th UNHCR Refugee Film Festival/ 第8回UNHCR難民映画祭
WHEN: September 28th – October 6th
WHERE: Various locations around Tokyo
LANGUAGE: English audio or subtitles and Japanese subtitles as well
SCHEDULE: http://unhcr.refugeefilm.org/2013/schedule-e/
COST: Free and no RSVP necessary/ 無料。事前申込は不要です。
