Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2012
Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organisations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. We work tenaciously to lay the legal and moral groundwork for deep rooted change and fight to bring greater justice and security to people around the world.
Through the Human Rights Watch Film Festival we bear witness to human rights violations and create a forum for courageous individuals on both sides of the lens to empower audiences with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a difference. The film festival brings to life human rights abuses through storytelling in a way that challenges each individual to empathise and demand justice for all people.
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Love Crimes of Kabul
23 March 2012
Jailed for running away from home to escape abuse, for allegations of adultery, and other "moral crimes," the women of Afghanistan's Badum Bagh prison band together to fight for their freedom.
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The Price of Sex + Panel Discussion
24 March 2012
Intimate and revealing, The Price of Sex is a feature-length documentary about young Eastern European women who have been drawn into a world of sex trafficking and abuse.
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Family Portrait in Black and White + Q&A
24 March 2012
A group of African and Slavic-born orphans grow up in a bi-racial society in Eastern Europe under the hand a single woman.
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Putin's Kiss + Q&A
25 March 2012
This coming-of-age tale paints a grim picture of the Russian political moral climate.
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Salaam Dunk
25 March 2012
With plenty of pop music and 'girl power', David Fine delivers a tale of hope and inspiration courtesy of one winning group of Iraqi women basketball players.
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Special Flight
28 March 2012
Surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged this portrait of rejected asylum seekers and illegal migrants shows a world few know from the inside.
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Little Heaven + Q&A
29 March 2012
"HIV is like somebody living in my body without paying rent. I don’t know him and I don’t like him." — Lydia, age 13, Little Heaven Orphanage, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.