Donor: USAID
Duration of the project: January – August 2001
Due to the attitude of the former Yugoslav government and government-controlled media towards human rights and humanitarian law, human rights in the FRY were perceived by the public as a tool for Western countries interests and not as a main precondition for democratisation. However, after political changes on 5 October 2000, a favourable atmosphere for a promotion of human rights was created.This project had a goal to raise public awareness on human rights through broad public campaign. Short feature films were imagined to be main tools in it. They addressed tolerance, diversity, national minority issues, affirmative action, lessening ethnic distance, assimilation. The idea was to make these films close to everyone by ordinary life story plot, so everyone would be able to recognise diversity – distance issues they are surrounded by.
The Belgrade Centre has produced three films:
