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The 81st Venice International Film Festival is organised by La Biennale di Venezia and will be held on the Lido di Venezia from 28 August to 7 September 2024. The Festival is officially recognised by the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Association).   The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote international cinema in all its forms as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. One section is devoted to enhance the restoration works on classic films as a contribution towards a better understanding of the history of cinema.   Click here to read the line-up of this edition.   The 19th edition of the Summer School in Cinema Human Rights and Advocacy is a training initiative jointly developed by the Global Campus of Human Rights (GC) and Picture People. The school is aimed at participants wishing to broaden their understanding on the connections between human rights, films, digital media and video advocacy, and learn how to use film as a tool for social change. The 10-day programme provides a safe, culturally rich and collaborative environment where diversity and inclusivity are embraced, original and critical thinking are encouraged, skills are honed, creativity is unleashed and networking with experts from the human rights arena and professionals from the film industry at the 81st Venice International Film Festival is supported.

The Press Office had the occasion to interview the Judge of the European Court of Human Rights Ivana Jelić during our CEDU training course that took place in our Venice Headquarters from 11-14 April 2024.

Mr Demetrio Lazagna, academic responsible of Global Campus trainings on election observation and technical assistance, had the opportunity to interview the President Magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Guatemala Ms Blanca Alfaro in occasion of her attendance, alongside a delegation of Congressmen of the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala, to the training Strengthening Political Processes Through Technical Assistance, which took place at Global Campus headquarters in Venice, Lido from 13 to 16 June 2024, in its third edition.

Following the success of many important activities of our network, the Global Campus of Human Rights published the twelfth edition of its seasonal Magazine in English and Italian.