The Fourth February National Dignity Day goes
beyond a historical event for Venezuelan. While the celebration has started a
day before in the Bolivarian country, The Embassy of Venezuela in Indonesia had
a film screening party with Club de Cine
Amigos Cervantes (Amigos Cervantes Film Club) to commemorate its 20th
anniversary.
Two embassy’s cars parked in front of Aula
Cervantes Jakarta that afternoon, 4th February 2012. Some Venezuelan
light bites, brought by the embassy, were served before the film projection
started. The friendly Charge d’Affaires of Venezuelan Embassy Elena Csiky,
blended easily with the crowd although it was the first collaboration ever
between the two groups.
A fifteen minute opening documentary “La
Revolución de La Mayoria” (The Revolution of The Majority) gives the depiction
of people movement in 1992, which brought down Carlos Andres Perez. The special
program by Venezolana de Televisión (VTV)
also put the ongoing President Hugo Chávez on limelight, as he led the coup
d’état.
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| The Head of Mission of Veneuelan Embassy to Indonesia (in pink) |
“Although he (Chávez) was losing at that
moment, the morality of the occasion is to open people’s mind to move forward
after the Bolivarian thought, for the people to have a good life and
integration to make a big nation,” the Venezuelan representative explained the
importance behind the day.
The winning movie of 2006 Trieste Festival
of Latin-American Cinema’s Special Jury Prize “El Caracazo” (The Caracazo) kept
the audiences on their seat for the 110 minutes after. The feature also
portrays the biggest riot ever in Venezuelan history, which took place in the
capital Caracas.
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| Raise Your Glass! |
The event drew more viewers than the club’s
previous film screenings. It also pulled off promoting participants’ knowledge
on Venezuelan history. Club de Cine
Amigos Cervantes was initiated by Spanish language course’s students of
Trisakti Language Centre Grogol, and supported by Instituto Cervantes, a worldwide Spanish language and cultural
centre owned by the Spanish government. The club however does not confine its
activity covering movies only from Spain, yet it supports also Latin-American
cinema. They schedule the screening on the second and fourth Saturday every
month in Aula Cervantes.
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