René Cassin presents the internationally acclaimed documentary ‘Valley of Sights’  by a film by Mihai Andrei Leaha, Andrei Crisan, Iulia Hossu. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Mihai Andrei Leaha, the writer, director and producer of the documentary.

Between 1943 and 1945, 25.000 Romani people were deported to Transnistria by the Antonescu regime. Half of them soon died of hunger, cold or other causes. 70 years later, a few survivors, who were of a very young age at that time, recall and give a sad account of those terrible events. The film aims to reconstruct the journey, places and tragic experiences of the past. Interviews with the members of the Ukrainian community from Transnistria expand the stories of the Roma survivors and transform an area nowadays apparently trivial in a place of anthropological value, memories and tears.
 
René Cassin is a charity working to promote and protect universal human rights, drawing on Jewish experience and values. Thei achieve this by campaigning for change in defined human rights areas through a combination of advocacy, policy analysis, public campaigning and education and building the capacity of activists and lawyers to promote and protect human rights. René Cassin works on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller rights: countering negative media coverage, educating faith leaders and battling evictions.