00:00Good day, my name is Stephen Jared Kelly, I'm a cineasta and documentalist irlandais.
00:05I'm here in Bogotá to support and present my film in the sombra of Beirut,
00:15in the shadow of Beirut, Lebanon,
00:18which is part of the Eurusine Festival that ended on May 19th.
00:26I'm here in the region of Beirut.
00:29We don't want to do anything else.
00:34I'm here in Beirut.
00:39There's a lot of places in the region of Beirut.
00:43There's a place in the region of Beirut.
00:48We are about 30,000 people
00:51who are willing to give us the Lord to one another.
00:58We are not here.
01:02The film in the shadow of Beirut follows four families over four years in marginalized parts of the city, in
01:13Sabra and Shatila.
01:14In my five years living there full time, I became friends with people from the two areas.
01:25And the film shows daily challenges of families to survive and to provide for their children,
01:34but also the incredible love and heroism that the families and the communities exhibit and show on a daily basis
01:49against incredible odds that are stacked against them.
01:53It's an immense honour to be here with the Eurusine Festival, especially when it's in its 30th year.
02:05And the quality and the curation of the films in the festival means that it's an incredible honour for In
02:13the Shadow of Beirut to be a part of it.
02:15Not only to bridge stories and people across oceans from the Middle East to Europe to South America,
02:27but also to connect us at a time when there's a lot of separation and a lot of often objectification
02:35of others.
02:36So what this festival has the potential to do is to bring people together.
02:42Documentary filmmaking has an incredible potential to explore social, political issues of our time.
02:51Speaking of my own experience of living in Beirut for five years and being surrounded by conflict,
03:00often instigated and perpetuated by foreign powers, by an international agenda.
03:12If you look at Syria, if you look at the Kurdish regions, if you look at occupied Palestine and Palestine,
03:22where documentary filmmaking really has the power to make a change is in these areas.
03:33It is in helping us understand that the people who suffer, that the people who are at the losing...
03:41Documentary filmmaking has this very important place to focus more on the people, not to get lost in statistics.
03:50Documentary filmmaking has the potential to focus on very human stories and to bring us as audiences,
03:56who don't have the privilege to meet these people, to actually spend time and to care a bit more
04:02and to then pressure our own governments to take a stance and to change policies that affect people,
04:10that in reality are very similar to us and are not that far away.
04:20Therefore, I'm not sure you are right.
04:21Because of the fact that you have seen theações of your generation aren't even involved in this space,
04:21I'm sure you have seen the people who have you in these moments and have been caught by the noise.
04:21If you're going to be at this point, let's say it is really,
04:21because your territory is not the way to make solutions for some of the people who are around.
04:21Of course, your territory is not the people who have the fosters andviamente power.
04:22It's not the only place to focus on the people that you're in this space.
04:22But like, you know that you're in this space of the world,
04:22your territory is in this space.
04:22And it's a great place to be in this space.
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