OCTOBER
18-21 2021
MONDAY - 18TH OCTOBER
FORCED LABOUR
The Ghost Fleet (2019)
5:30 p.m.
ENGLISH | THAI
Vulcan Productions // USA
Ghost Fleet tells the story of slaves in the Thai fishing industry. The documentary focuses on the Ghost Fleet, in which we can see the ilegal industry of fishing and how some volunteers and activists fight to end it.
The documentary follows Patima Tungpuchayakul, a thai activist who is determined to help these trapped men. Tun Lin used to be one of these men. However, after years of being forced to work fishing without getting paid, he escaped and now, he tells his story in this powerful documentary.
“It’s a very human, character-driven tale of courage and heroism that illuminates the dark underbelly of modern fishing”- Shannon Service, one of the directors and producers of The Ghost Fleet.
A Woman Captured (2017)
7:15 p.m.
HUNGARIAN | ENGLISH SUBT.
Eclipse Film & Corso Films // HUNGARY
A woman captured is an award-winning Hungarian documentary that follows the story of Marish,a 52-year-old woman who was a domestic slave for a decade. She worked as their server without getting any payment. The mere making of this documentary helps the woman realize about its situation and creating a plan for her escape.
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Bernadett Tuza-Ritts explains how the filming process for this documentary was for her: “ You start to be more and more becoming increasingly interested in the protagonist and into the topic—, having access to more and more material., You try to figure it out. I can remember, every time I went there, I had something in my head like a new idea of what I wanted to get from shooting. And once that was done, I wanted to go back there again.At least one shot, why I wanted to go back again.”
LOCAL TALKERS
PARALLEL ACTIVITY
Carmen Meneses Falcón is a professor at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE the will talk about her research on women’s human trafficking and the way they are usually sold as sexual slaves. She will focus on how this prostitution trade works and the socioeconomic charcateristics behind it.
From a gender perspective, Carmen Meneses will analyse the vulnerability and inequality that women suffer, especially in marginalized and impoverished places. She will denounce the characteristics of the traffickers and clients and will talk about which role institutions should take in order to tackle this issue, taking into account human rights.
