Human Rights Watch Film Festival · 2009
17 films · 10 reviews
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.
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Havana Marking) , Official site
An observational and utterly uncompromising document of the lives of two children touched by war.
(Country: Italy; Year: 2008; Director: Fabrizio Lazzaretti, Paolo Santolini; Writer: Clelio Benevento, Fabrizio Lazzaretti, Paolo Santolini)
A Japanese journalist is shot dead in the street. Gunfire can be heard everywhere. Crowds run in panic.
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2009; Director: Anders Ostergaard) , Official site , Trailer
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.
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Joe Berlinger) , Official site
This fable for our times manages to be touching, comedic, and poignant.
(Country: France, Greece, Italy; Year: 2009; Director: Costa-Gavras; Writer: Costa-Gavras, Jean-Claude Grumberg; Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Juliane Köhler, Ulrich Tukur, Eric Caravaca, Jean-Christophe Folly, Florian Martens, Antoine Monot Jr)
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Pete Travis; Writer: Paula Milne; Stars: William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller, Mark Strong)
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.
(Country: India; Year: 2008; Director: Nandita Das; Writer: Nandita Das, Shuchi Kothari; Stars: Tisca Chopra, Shahana Goswami, Deepti Naval, Paresh Rawal, Naseeruddin Shah, Sanjay Suri, Raghuvir Yadav)
It is impossible not to admire Kasparov’s courage as well as his outrage at what is happening to the motherland.
(Country: Russia; Year: 2008; Director: Masha Novikova; Stars: Garry Kasparov)
Both a straight forward narrative and a metaphor for a country whose future is as easily damaged as the abandoned child.
(Country: France, Afghanistan; Year: 2008; Director: Barmak Akram; Writer: Barmak Akram; Stars: Hadji Gul, Valéry Schatz, Amélie Glenn, Mohammad Chafi Sahel, Helena Alam, Messi Gul, Saleha Khan Gul, Rohina Gul, Mariam Hakimi, Mustafa Haidari)
(Country: Palestine, Tunisia, Netherlands; Year: 2008; Director: Rashid Masharawi; Writer: Rashid Masharawi; Stars: Mohamed Bakri, Areen Omari, Nour Zoubi)
(Country: Israel; Year: 2008; Director: Naftaly Gliksberg)
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Anne Aghian)
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.
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Gini Reticker) , Official site
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Senain Kheshgi, Geeta Patel; Writer: Sharmila Ariathurai, Senain Kheshgi, Billy McMillin, Geeta Patel)
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.
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Pamela Yates; Writer: Peter Kinoy, Paco de Onís, Pamela Yates) , Official site
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Jawad Metni)
(Country: Spain, South Africa; Year: 2008; Director: Gabriela Gutiérrez Dewar, Sally Gutiérrez Dewar)
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