UNESCO was bringing together a diversity of voices around crosscutting issues in culture and arts education during a multistakeholder dialogue taking place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 25 and 26 May, 2023. Through this unique platform, Member States, policymakers, IGOs, NGOs, academia, cultural and...
The International Council for Film, Television and Audiovisual Communication (CICT-ICFT) to UNESCO was invited to participate in the 16th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions held at UNESCO Headquarters from...
Representing the International Council for Film, Television and Audiovisual Communication (CICT-ICFT) to UNESCO, Ms Xueyuan HUN, Director of Platform for Creativity & Innovation (PCI), intervened on the Thematic Session "The Future of the Creative Economy" of the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable...
The International Council for Film, Television and Audio-visual Communication (CICT-ICFT) awarded its prize with the UNESCO Gandhi Medal at the closing ceremony of the 52nd International Film Festival of India, Goa (IFFI) to the film Lingui the Sacred Bonds by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad). [button size='small' style=''...
[caption id="attachment_1384" align="alignleft" width="200"] International flags[/caption] Representing the International Council for Film, Television and Audiovisual Communication (CICT-ICFT) to UNESCO, Ms Xueyuan HUN, Director of Platform for Creativity & Innovation (PCI), addressed the floor during the General Policy Debate on November 13, 2021, at the 41st Session...
Declared by UNESCO in 2005, October 27 has been observed every year as World Day for Audiovisual Heritage to raise general awareness about the need to take urgent measures and to acknowledge the importance of audiovisual archives. We celebrate World Day for Audiovisual Heritage with...
UNESCO will celebrate African cinema from 5 to 7 October with the launch of the publication The African Film Industry: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Growth. The publication is the fruit of an exploratory study launched in October 2020 by UNESCO on the film and...
UNESCO's 2nd Memory of the World Global Policy Forum will take place from 21 to 22 September 2021 at UNESCO Headquarters. The Forum is part of UNESCO’s strategic support to policy makers, memory institutions, and other stakeholders seeking to implement the UNESCO Recommendation concerning the...
The ICFT Prize with UNESCO Gandhi Medal was awarded at the closing ceremony of 51st International Film Festival of India, Goa (IFFI) on January 24, 2021. Ten films were pre-selected by the committe of IFFI and the ICFT juries voted to decide the winner. [button size='small' style=''...
International Dance Council (CID), International Council of Cinema, Television and Audiovisual Communication (ICFT), and Platform for Creativity & Innovation (PCI) launched a project on the International Dance Day, April 29th, 2020, inciting the creation of choreographies for youth under the theme “The values of UNESCO move...