Human Rights Watch International Film Festival 2004

2/26/04 to 2/28/04

  • Upcoming
    Films
  • Upcoming
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  • Selected
    Objects
  • Past
    Films
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Past Films

  • S-21, The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

    • Saturday, February 28 5:30 pm

    Victims and perpetrators of state violence in Cambodia together confront the atrocities of the 1970s in this major new doc. "Unforgettable...as horrific an exposure to evil as Shoah."-Village Voice

  • Balseros

    • Saturday, February 28 1:00 pm

    Discussion with special guests following 1 p.m. program. This extraordinary documentary chronicles the seven-year odyssey of seven Cuban refugees adrift in the U.S. "Magnificent."-L.A. Times

  • War Takes

    • Friday, February 27 7:00 pm

    Three Colombian filmmakers use personal stories to expose the realities of their war-ravaged country.

  • Ford Transit

    • Friday, February 27 8:45 pm

    Hany Abu-Assad follows a taxi driver ferrying Palestinians from checkpoint to checkpoint along the West Bank. "Sorrowful, uproarious, clever, alarming, and argumentative by turns...a first-rate movie."-The Nation

  • Power Trip

    • Thursday, February 26 7:00 pm

    The lights go out in post-Soviet Georgia when an American power company moves in. Paul Devlin's deft doc "gives new meaning to the phrase 'dark comedy.'"-Film Forum

  • Life on the Tracks

    • Thursday, February 26 8:50 pm

    A richly textured, intimate portrait of one impoverished Manila family surviving just a step away from the railroad tracks.