Human Rights Watch Film Festival — A–Z of films

Although not breaking new ground in terms of the way it is shot and edited, this is a compelling story and features some excellent archive footage.

An observational and utterly uncompromising document of the lives of two children touched by war.

A Japanese journalist is shot dead in the street. Gunfire can be heard everywhere. Crowds run in panic.

In airing the opposing viewpoint, through the use of the petroleum giant's videos and spokesmen, he gives Chevron just enough rope to hang itself with.

This fable for our times manages to be touching, comedic, and poignant.

Both the style and the quality of the acting are somewhat uneven, giving the impression that more time and care was taken with some story strands than others.

It is impossible not to admire Kasparov’s courage as well as his outrage at what is happening to the motherland.

Both a straight forward narrative and a metaphor for a country whose future is as easily damaged as the abandoned child.

Although filling the watcher with the same sort of outrage that inspired the women to stand up and be counted, this is, at heart, a testimony to the power of solidarity and sisterhood through a single purpose.

This is no talking heads documentary. Cameras take us into the displacement camps of Uganda, where local survivors talk of their babies beaten to death.