Karama Human Rights Film Festival - organized by Ma3mal 612 Think Factory - announces the launch of its activities for the year 2023. The 14th Edition will in December 2023.
We are currently accepting entries for films of the following genres: short fiction, feature fiction, documentary, animation; Films should be produced after January 2019.
A selection of films will compete in the Karama Feather Awards for Best Fiction Feature, Best Feature Documentary, Best Short Fiction Film, Best Animated Film, and the Audience Award, as well as the “Arab Network for Human Rights Film Festivals, for Best Human Rights Film- ANHAR Award.
Karama HRFF Jordan is the first human rights film festival in the Arab region, and the first international film festival in Jordan. It has co-founded and supported several festivals in the Arab region. Such as: “Karama Palestine | 2013”, “Karama Mauritania | 2014”, “Karama Gaza-Red Carpet Human Rights Film Festival | 2015”, “Karama Beirut | 2016”, “Karama Yemen | 2018” and supported “Karama Tunis-The International Festival for Human Rights Films” and “Erato Human Rights Film Festival in Libya”, within the framework of “ANHAR- The Arab Network of human Rights Film Festivals” which Ma3mal 612 founded in 2015.
The main theme for the KHRFF is human rights in general; children, women, refugees, political, economic, social and civic rights, and the role of films and culture in creating social and political change. Recent massive upheavals in the Arab region since the first edition (in 2010) have made it imperative to seek the exchange of expression, ideas, opinions and experiences on human rights issues across the region and the world. The festival’s core theme is human dignity
A selection of films will compete in the Karama Feather Awards for Best Fiction Feature, Best Feature Documentary, Best Short Fiction Film, Best Animated Film, and the Audience Award, as well as the “Arab Network for Human Rights Film Festivals, for Best Human Rights Film- ANHAR Award.
