Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Europe on Screen takes multiculturalism theme

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Europe on Screen takes multiculturalism theme

Nauval Yazid, Contributor The Jakarta Post , Jakarta

Most international film festivals are multicultural in nature simply because they attract entrants from across the globe. But in establishing "multiculturalism" as the general theme of a film festival it becomes important to ask why we so value cultural diversity. Is it because we are afraid of what will happen if we do not, or because we truly welcome the value of difference?

Europe on Screen 2007 -- previously the European Film Festival -- aims to foster an open attitude toward cultural difference.

Most of the 35 European films and 18 Indonesian short films in the festival carry the theme of cultural migration -- either literally or figuratively. The festival will be held from Oct. 26-Nov. 2 at four cultural centers in Jakarta: Goethe Haus, Erasmus Huis, the French Cultural Center (Salemba) and the Italian Cultural Institute. It will later travel to seven other cities in the country.

The festival will open with 25 Degres in Hiver (25 Degrees in Winter. Directed by St‚phane Vuillet, the 2003 film tells the story of Miguel, who reluctantly helps an immigrant from Ukraine search for her husband. But it is Miguel's mother, played by Pedro Almodovar regular Carmen Maura, who is drawn to the immigrant's story and turns out to be the driving force of the search.

Touching a similar storyline but taking a more dramatic turn is Zozo, Sweden's official Academy Awards entry in 2006. Zozo is a 10-year-old boy who leads a normal life in Beirut, Lebanon, until a civil war breaks out in the city, leaving him orphaned after his parents are killed. He is forced to move to Sweden, the "paradise" his grandparents emigrated to. Yet the country is far from being a paradise for Zozo.

Almost Adult, the story of two teenage girls from Africa who enter the U.K. as illegal immigrants, considers the various roles of multicultural law.

Likewise Indonesian filmmakers Zeke Harris and Farishad Latjuba were clearly driven by individual concerns in the race toward multiculturalism in making their short films. Zeke's Indonesian Workers in the U.K. is about three masseurs living and working in the U.K., while Farishad's Klayaban: A Tale of an Outcast tells the story of a former Communist party member who lives an exiled life in Eastern Europe.

Both films have featured in local and international film festivals since their release in 2005.

However, multiculturalism is also celebrated in light-hearted ways. Dutch film Polleke offers a sweet, innocent glimpse of puppy love between a teenage girl and her classmate, a Moroccan boy; while Germany's En Garde shows that it takes a Kurdish refugee to fully understand the heart of a young German girl.

The festival will close with France's La vie en Rose, a biopic about legendary French songstress Edith Piaf. Directed with MTV-style cuts by Olivier Dahan, the film has already generated Oscar buzz for Marion Cotillard's nail-biting performance as Piaf.

Europe on Screen. Oct.26 - Nov. 2

http://www.uni-eropa.org/film

All screenings are free