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Evenings

Monday, September 1 to Saturday, September 6, 9.45pm at Campo Santo.

Visa pour l'Image evening shows will cover the main events of the past year, from September 2007 to August 2008. Every evening, from Monday to Saturday, the program will begin with a chronological review of the news stories from the previous year, two months at a time. This is followed by reports and features on social issues, war, stories that have made the news and others that have been kept quiet, plus a range of observations on the state of the world today. Visa pour l'Image also presents retrospectives on major events and figures in history. The “Visa pour l'Image” award ceremonies are held during the evening programs.

The program for 2008 covers today’s main events across the continents, e.g. Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Colombia, China, Tibet, Russia, Somalia/Ethiopia, the USA, and Chad. There are wars, but there are also political, social and environmental developments and changes.
2008 includes a number of anniversary celebrations, with worldwide commemorations and events, such as : the end of World War I, les 30 ans du Figaro Magazine, les 70 ans de l’Agence Roger-Viollet …

Kenya

Kenya, once cited as a model of political stability, has now been caught in a major crisis since the latest elections. In just two weeks, the death toll reached 1 500 and more than 300 000 persons were displaced.

Pakistan – from Partition en 1947 to the Present

December 27, 2007: Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in Rawalpindi. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan has lived with violence in so many different forms over so many years: refugees have fled their homelands, there has been armed warfare in Kashmir and Bangladesh, and there have been putsches, threats to use nuclear weapons, repression and massacres. And over recent months, suicide attacks by the Taliban have left more than a thousand people dead.

1968 around the world

Washington, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Paris, and Mexico City. The younger generation rebelled and took to the streets, determined to change the world and destroy the authoritarian bonds of the established order. Pacifists demonstrated, and sometimes protests turned violent; the goal was worldwide opposition to the Vietnam War, and support for equal rights for blacks and whites, for men and women. In eastern bloc countries, rebellion was against communist oppression. Soviet tanks soon brought the “Prague Spring” to an end; Richard Nixon was elected president of the United States, and peace was restored to the streets of Paris with elections.

A special evening program will be presented on Friday, September 5, to mark the 20th anniversary of Visa pour l’Image, with a Visa retrospective covering the key events that have had the greatest impact on festival audiences since 1989.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday (September 4, 5 & 6), the evening shows at Campo Santo will be screened simultaneously on the place de la République for an even larger audience.