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California Committee North
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
San Francisco Bay Area, February 19th-26th and March 10th-30th, 2006
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In recognition of the power of film to educate and galvanize a broad constituency
of concerned citizens, Human Rights Watch decided to create the Human Rights
Watch International Film Festival. Human Rights Watch's International Film
Festival has become a leading venue for distinguished fiction, documentary
and animated films and videos with a distinctive human rights theme. Through
the eyes of committed and courageous filmmakers, we showcase the heroic stories
of activists and survivors from all over the world. The works we feature help
put a human face on threats to individual freedom and dignity, and celebrate
the power of the human spirit and intellect to prevail. We seek to empower
everyone with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a very real difference.
For descriptions of this year's featured films, please click here
The Troubles We've Seen: A History
of Journalism in Wartime
Marcel Ophuls- France/Germany/UK - 1994 - 224m -
doc
Pacific Film Archive- 3:00 pm February 19th
Mardi Gras: Made in China
David Redmon -US-2004 -72 min -doc
In English, Cantonese, Fujianese and Mandarin with English subtitles
Pacific Film Archive- 7:30 pm February 23rd
Yerba Buena Center- 7:00 pm March 16th
VideoLetters
Katarina Rejger and Eric van den Broek - Bosnia and Herzegovina/Slovenia/Macedonia/Croatia/Serbia
and Montenegro (including Kosovo)- 2004/2005 - 75min-doc
In Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian and Slovenian with
English subtitles
Pacific Film Archive- 7:00 pm February 24th (Program 1)
Pacific Film Archive- 5:30 pm February 26th (Program 2)
Justice
Maria Ramos - The Netherlands - 2004 - 100min - doc
In Portuguese with English subtitles
Pacific Film Archive - 8:35 pm February 24th
Winter Soldier
Winterfilm Collective - US - 96min - doc
Pacific Film Archive - 5:00 pm February 25th
Occupation:
Dreamland
Ian Olds and Garrett Scott - US - 2005 - 78min - doc
In English and Arabic with English subtitles
State
of Fear
Pamela Yates, Paco de Onis and Peter Kinoy - US/Peru - 2005 - 94min-
doc
In English and Spanish with English subtitles
Pacific Film Archive - 8:40 pm February 25th
Yerba Buena Center - 8:30 pm March 16th
Living Rights
Duco Tellegen - Japan/Kenya/Belarus - 2004 - 83min - doc
In Japanese/Maasai and Russian
with English subtitles
Pacific Film Archive - 3:30 pm February 26th
Yerba Buena Center - 7:00 pm March 23rd
Winter in Baghdad
Javier Corcuera - Spain - 2005 - 78min - doc
In Arabic with English subtitles
Yerba Buena Center - 7:00 pm and 8:45 pm March 10th
Seoul Train
Jim Butterworth, Aaron Lubarsky and Lisa Sleeth - US - 2004 - 54min- -doc
Yerba Buena Center - 8:30 pm March 23rd
Shakespeare Behind Bars
Hank Rogerson and Jilann Spitzmiller - US - 2005 - 93min - doc
Yerba Buena Center - 7:30 pm March 30th, Filmmakers Present
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Pacific Film Archive
2575 Bancroft Way @Bowditch
Berkeley, CA
(510) 642-1124
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St (at Third)
San Francisco, CA
(415) 978-ARTS
www.YBCA.org
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