Beyond the Screen

12.05.2025

The Antonio Papisca Human Rights Centre, the GIScience Laboratory and Drones for Good (D4G), and the Digital Learning and Multimedia (DLM) Office of the University of Padua invite you to the film forum Beyond the Screen, a series of three events featuring screenings of documentary films on human rights, new technologies, and climate change, followed by discussions in the theatre with directors and experts.

The screenings will be held at Cinema Lux, Viale Felice Cavallotti 9 - Padua, on Thursday 22 and 29 May and Thursday 5 June 2025 at 8:30 PM with free admission.

Human rights, the environmental crisis, forced migration, and rapid technological progress are some of the global challenges characterising our present, demonstrating the urgency of critically examining the world around us and imagining possible alternatives.

Recent UN resolutions on the environment and lethal autonomous weapons, and the initiation of projects for refugee access to university studies, represent tools through which we can question and rethink our relationship with the environment, new technologies, and the phenomenon of forced migration from a human rights-based approach.

The screenings are as follows:

Thursday 22 May, 8:30 PM
The Palestine Laboratory (by Antony Loewenstein, 2025, 48')

Thursday 29 May, 8:30 PM
When You Can't Go Back (by Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso, 2019, 65')

Thursday 5 June, 8:30 PM
Breath (by Ilaria Congiu, 2025, 72')

The films will be screened in English with Italian subtitles, or in Italian with English subtitles.

The initiative is promoted by the volunteers of the Universal Civil Service for the project "SCU and Sustainability: Human Rights, Environment and Digital Technologies" of the University of Padua, in collaboration with Osteria Volante APS, GISHUB APS Association and Arqus European University Alliance.