Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York – June 13-23
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Some of the films that are premiering:
June 14, 2013
9:45 PM / IFC Center
June 15, 2013
6:30 PM / Film Society of Lincoln Center Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
Camp 14—Total Control Zone is a fascinating portrait of a young man who grew up imprisoned by dehumanizing violence yet still found the will to escape. Born inside a North Korean prison camp as the child of political prisoners, Shin Dong-Huyk escapes and becomes a human rights “celebrity,” but as we see, his life outside the camp is often just as challenging as it was inside it.
June 14, 2013
9:45 PM / IFC Center
June 15, 2013
6:30 PM / Film Society of Lincoln Center Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
SALMA is the story of a young Muslim girl in India who, like many other South Asian women, was forced into seclusion once she reached puberty. Forbidden by her family to study and pushed into marriage, SALMA found salvation in writing and began covertly composing poems that, through an intricate smuggling system, were able to be sneaked out of the house… and into the hands of a publisher. Salma won numerous accolades, made the first step to discovering her own freedom, and effectively challenged the traditions and codes in her community.
June 16, 2013
9:15 PM / IFC Center
June 18, 2013
6:00 PM / Film Society of Lincoln Center Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
Khadija is a Moroccan divorcee who works as a camerawoman at weddings in Casablanca. Her mother and brother strongly disagree with her choice of occupation, complaining that Khadija is out until all hours and a source of gossip for the neighbors. Already ashamed that Khadija is divorced, they simply want her to remarry. But Khadija is the breadwinner in the family and she won’t bow to their demands. The fairy tale world of the wedding parties plays in sharp contrast to the difficulties of marriage and the reality of divorce. Together with her best friend Bouchra, also a divorcee, Khadija talks candidly about the issues they face and the competing forces at play in the lives of women in Morocco and beyond.
MY AFGHANISTAN: LIFE IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE
June 16, 2013
8:30 PM / Film Society of Lincoln Center Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
June 17, 2013
6:30 PM / Film Society of Lincoln Center Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
Nagieb Khaja, a Danish journalist of Afghan origin, travels to Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province in Afghanistan. He gives people living in outlying communities mobile phones equipped with cameras and asks them to film their daily lives, providing a rare glimpse into the war-torn existence of ordinary Afghans. And as the project progresses, it becomes clear how challenging it is to capture the difficult lives of women. My Afghanistan depicts a country where civilians are the greatest victims of the war, and Afghans struggle to live in the constant shadow of violence.
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