Human Rights in Documentary Cinema 03-F-HRDC

WEEK I
Class 1 Introduction to the course (presentation)
Class 2 Guidelines for students’ works (presentation)

WEEK II
Class 3 Challenges of today’s world as represented in Dear Future Children (2021) (discussion)
Class 4 Human rights in historical perspective (lecture with Q&A)

WEEK III
Class 5 Students introduce HR challenges/documentaries from their home contexts (presentation)
Class 6 Students introduce HR challenges/documentaries from their home contexts (presentation)

WEEK IV
Class 7 HR documentaries and their ethical dimension (lecture with Q&A)
Class 8 Analysis of the animation film Silence (1998) (seminar)

WEEK V
Class 9 The US civil rights movement as represented in the film I Am Not Your Negro (2016) (lecture with Q&A)
Class 10 The 1965–66 Indonesian mass killings as the background of the film The Act of Killing (2012) (lecture with Q&A)

WEEK VI
Class 11 Analysis and interpretation of the film The Act of Killing (2012) (seminar)
Class 12 Forced disappearances and torture after the 1973 military coup in Chile as the background of the film Nostalgia for the Light (2010) (lecture with Q&A)

WEEK VII
Class 13 Analysis and interpretation of the film Nostalgia for the Light (2010) (seminar)
Class 14 The 1975–79 Khmer Rouge political and class genocide in Cambodia as the background of the film The Missing Picture (2013) (lecture with Q&A)

WEEK VIII
Class 15 Analysis and interpretation of the film The Missing Picture (2013) (seminar)
Class 16 Women’s rights violations, including forced marriages, femi(ni)cide, female genital mutilation, and sexual slavery (lecture with Q&A)

WEEK IX
Class 17 Analysis and interpretation of the film Sonita (2016) (seminar)
Class 18 War crimes committed during the civil/proxy war in Syria (since 2011) as the background of the film For Sama (2019) (lecture with Q&A)

WEEK X
Class 19 Analysis and interpretation of the film For Sama (2019) (seminar)
Class 20 Violations of migrants' rights as represented in Les Sauteurs (2016) (lecture with Q&A)

WEEK XI
Class 23 Self-immolations as vehicles of protest with reference to the film Ask No Questions (2020) (lecture with Q&A)
Class 24 Colonia Dignidad, the German enclave in Chile, as represented in the film Songs of Repression (2020) (lecture with Q&A)

WEEK XII
Class 21 A group presentation (workshop)
Class 22 A pair essay (workshop)

WEEK XIII
Class 25 A group presentation (workshop)
Class 26 A pair essay (workshop)

WEEK XIV
Class 27 Students’ group presentations (presentation and discussion)
Class 28 Students’ group presentations (presentation and discussion)

WEEK XV
Class 29 Students’ pair essays (presentation and discussion)
Class 30 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (workshop), summary, and feedback