Festival project In development
Lucerne Asian Film Festival
Asian cinema, encounters and new perspectives on Lucerne — a festival project between screen and city. Organiser: Verein Mountain Dragon.
Initiatives
Culture and international dialogue, integration and participation, social support — non-profit associations and personal initiatives, clearly told apart.
Culture and international dialogue
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Image · HUMAN / Konzeptdossier
Integration and participation
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Non-profit association Active
Verein zusammen
Integrating migrants through cultural dialogue and participation — for living together peacefully and with respect. Founded in 2018.
Social support
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Non-profit association Active
Bridge to Kyrgyzstan
Support for children’s homes and hospitals in Kyrgyzstan, and encounters in Switzerland — such as the Kyrgyz Days in Kriens in 2014.
“I fight for justice. I did so in my homeland and I still do today. And I am not only a fighter, but also a supporter of people who depend on support.” — Kairat Birimkulov
Verein zusammen
- Aim
- Integration of migrants through cultural dialogue and participation in public life — for a peaceful and respectful coexistence of cultures.
- Organisation
- Verein zusammen (“Together”), non-profit association
- Role
- President
- Region
- Central Switzerland
On record: on 6 June 2018 the Luzerner Zeitung reported on the founding of the association (“Luzerner Hurricane will Migranten besser integrieren”, in German).
Bridge to Kyrgyzstan (Verein Brücke nach Kirgistan)
- Aim
- A link between Switzerland and Kyrgyzstan; support for orphanages and hospitals in Kyrgyzstan.
- Organisation
- Verein Brücke nach Kirgistan, non-profit association
- Role
- President
- Region
- Kriens and Central Switzerland; Kyrgyzstan
On record: in 2014 the association organised the Kyrgyz Days in Kriens — with a yurt on the Krauerwiese, the nomad tent that stands for the traditional life of the mountain people (Luzerner Zeitung, 29 August 2014, in German).
Women’s rights in Central Asia
The situation of women in Kyrgyz society is at the heart of his film work — a subject that, in his view, receives far too little attention in Kyrgyzstan.
Women’s rights are not a separate project with its own organiser but a theme running through his journalism and film work — most recently in “Kurak” and “PAY THE BILL”.
Get involved
Would you like to support a project, take part or get to know one of the associations? Write to him. The civic projects are kept separate from his political work: contacts from the associations are not used for political communication.
Roles and details follow the previous website and will be checked against the associations’ own records.
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Suggest a topic.
A concern from Kriens, an invitation to a talk, a media request or a film project — write to me.