Human Rights Watch Film Festival · 2015
Screening at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and IFC Center from June 11 to 21.
16 films · 10 reviews
Silver exposes is an underlying, deep-seated prejudice rather than some sort of murderous instinct.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Marc Silver)
This is a film more interested in life than death, even if death is often hovering above.
(Country: South Africa, Sudan; Year: 2014; Director: Hajooj Kuka)
The film is an interesting, timely, though ultimately dispiriting look at how the twin forces of institutional bigotry and internal discord fragmented one of the key organising forces in black America.
(Year: 2015; Director: Stanley Nelson)
What shines through in Burden of Peace is the personal bravery it takes to stick to your ideals and behave morally in the face of state power and implicit violence.
(Country: Netherlands, Guatemala, Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Joey Boink, Sander Wirken; Writer: Joey Boink, Sander Wirken)
One person's armed vigilante is another person's guardian angel and the border between these two ideas is wafer thin and easily crossed as Matthew Heineman's beautifully shot and probing documentary shows.
(Country: US, Mexico; Year: 2015; Director: Matthew Heineman)
(Country: France, Netherlands, Turkey, South Africa, Egypt, Lebanon; Year: 2014; Director: Francois Verster; Writer: Francois Verster)
The second half shows that the director played the long game by returning a year later once the dust had settled, and then again in 2014 for the next set of presidential elections.
(Country: Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Colombia; Year: 2014; Director: Andreas Dalsgaard, Vivana Gomez, Nicolas Servide; Writer: Andreas Dalsgaard)
Oppenheimer boils down the atrocity to the experience of a single family, leaving us to extrapolate back up.
(Country: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Indonesia, UK; Year: 2014; Director: Joshua Oppenheimer)
It is significant that No Land's Song in some ways mirrors that inclination for layering female voices by only presenting Sara's thoughts and opinions through conversation with others.
(Country: Germany, France, Iran; Year: 2014; Director: Ayat Najafi; Writer: Ayat Najafi; Stars: Imed Alibi, Parvin Azimi, Elise Caron, Jeanne Cherhal, Chakad Fesharaki, Sébastien Hoog, Ali Kazemian, Emel Mathlouthi, Sara Najafi, Edward Perraud, Ali Rahimi, Sayeh Sodeyfi, Maryam Tajhdeh)
(Year: 2014; Director: Laurent Bécue-Renard)
What unfolds is a comedy of (t)errors with a central character who shifts very quickly between dubious but likeable guy, buffoon and sociopath.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe)
(Country: France, Poland, Israel, Occupied Palestinian Territory; Year: 2014; Director: Tamara Erde; Writer: Tamara Erde)
(Country: US, Egypt; Year: 2015; Director: Gini Reticker)
(Country: Canada, Occupied Palestinian Territory, France; Year: 2014; Director: Paul Cowan, Amer Shomali; Writer: Paul Cowan; Stars: Alison Darcy, Rosann Nerenberg, Holly O'Brien)
(Country: US, Afghanistan; Year: 2014; Director: Beth Murphy; Writer: Beth Murphy)
Charming and heartfelt.
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno; Stars: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno) , Official site , Trailer
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