HRWFF New York - 12-22.06.14
The 25th edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival will run from June 12 to 22, 2014, with a program of 22 films that bring human rights struggles to life through storytelling, Human Rights Watch said. The festival, designed to show that film can be a powerful source of change and inspiration, is co-presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and IFC Center.
Twenty documentaries and two fiction films will be featured, including 19 New York premieres and an unprecedented 16 features by women. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is especially proud to be celebrating its 25th anniversary.
Showing at 3 venues IFC Center, Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater and The Times Center
The festival will launch on June 12 with a fundraising benefit night for Human Rights Watch featuring Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman’s Sundance award-winner E-TEAM, which follows four intrepid activists from Human Rights Watch’s emergencies team as they investigate and document war crimes on the front lines of Syria and Libya.
The closing night screening on June 22 will be Scheherazade’s Diary, a tragicomic documentary that follows women inmates through a 10-month drama therapy/theater project set up by director Zeina Daccache at the Baabda Prison in Lebanon. Through “Scheherazade in Baabda,” these “murderers of husbands, adulterers and drug felons” reveal their stories.
Click here for the full New York programme.
