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Hello and welcome to the 21stedition of the London HumanRights Watch Film Festival!We have selected 16 topical and provocativefeature documentaries that grapple with thechallenges of defending human rights aroundthe world today.
In an era of global advances by far-right forcesinto the political mainstream, more than half theprogramme explores individuals and groups
exhibiting courageous resilience in challenging times, and celebrates the push forprogress and transparency.
Revolutionary voices take centre stage in four titles, including our Opening Night film,the Oscar nominated I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck—a stunning profile of UScivil rights era writer James Baldwin, whose prophetic words, narrated by Samuel L.Jackson, bring us rapidly into the present. In Girl Unbound, Maria Toorpakai becomesPakistan’s finest woman squash player, despite Taliban death threats. In Joshua,Joshua Wong, a teenager from Hong Kong, orchestrates a fearless student-led stand-off with the Chinese government in the fight for democracy. And the infectious,uncompromising humour of Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef is the powerful stringthat draws back the curtain on his government’s crackdown on the rights of itscitizens in Tickling Giants.
Three of our films highlight inspiring collective action—from 500 Years, where thehighly organised street protests of Mayan activists bring the truth to light in the courtsof Guatemala; to The Apology, where octogenarians, often referred to as ‘comfortwomen,’ continue to demand accountability for their sexual exploitation by theJapanese army during World War II. Also screening is Complicit, which follows criticallypoisoned factory workers as they fight Chinese electronics giant Foxconn foracknowledgement, justice and health care.
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Urgent and evolving issues of migration are explored in three titles that uncover theemerging reality of daily life as a refugee. In The Good Postman, the aging residentsof a tiny Bulgarian town are split on whether to welcome or reject Syrian familiesfleeing war. Lost in Lebanon takes a close look at the reaction of a country of 4million inhabitants to the arrival of 1 million refugees. And in the highly emotiveand deeply personal Closing Night film, Nowhere to Hide, we accompany an Iraqinurse and his family whose lives are suddenly turned upside down as their countryis once again torn apart by war.
As always, the festival will host in-depth discussions after the screenings withfilmmakers, protagonists, Human Rights Watch researchers and activists to offeryou, the audience, a unique opportunity to ask questions and engage with topicscovered in each film.
We are delighted to bring this programme to you, and hope that you will continue tojoin us in supporting and celebrating powerful human rights achievements in filmthroughout 2017 and beyond.
See you in the cinema!The Human Rights Watch Film Festival team
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I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO+Q&ALondon PremiereThursday 9 March, 18.30 | Picturehouse Central*Please note the reception is open to all ticket holders
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When James Baldwin died in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of abook that was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successiveassassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X andMartin Luther King, Jr. In I Am Not Your Negro, filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America—a journey into black history connecting the evolution of the Civil Rights movement to the current immediacy of #BlackLivesMatter. By confronting the deeper connections betweenthe lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have created a workthat challenges the very definition of what America stands for.2017 Academy Award® Nominee for Best Documentary Feature
Raoul Peck, 2016, Documentary, 95 minutesEnglish
“I started reading James Baldwin when I was a 15-year-old boysearching for rational explanations to the contradictions I wasconfronting in my already nomadic life... James Baldwin was one of thefew authors that I could call “my own.” Authors who were speaking ofa world I knew, in which I was not just a footnote. They were tellingstories describing history and defining structure and humanrelationships which matched what I was seeing around me. I couldrelate to them. You always need a Baldwin book by your side.”RAOUL PECK, DIRECTOR, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
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Nowhere to Hide is an immersive and uncompromising first-hand reflection of theresilience and fortitude of a male nurse working and raising his children in Jalawla,Iraq, an increasingly dangerous and inaccessible part of the world. After US troops left Iraq in 2011, director Zaradasht Ahmed gave Nori Sharif a camera and taughthim how to use it, asking him to capture the reality of life in his community and the hospitalwhere he worked. Over the next few years Sharif filmed his patients, but the population—including the majority of the hospital staff—flees when the Iraqi army pulls out in 2013 becauseof militant activity. Sharif is one of the few who remain. When the Islamic State advances onJalawla in 2014 and finally takes over the city, Sharif continues to film. However, he now faces avital decision: stay and dedicate himself to treating those he vowed to help, or leave and protecthis family—in the process becoming one of thousands of internally displaced people in Iraq.2016 IDFA Winner for Best Feature-Length Documentary
Zaradasht Ahmed, 2016, Documentary, 86 minutes, Arabic
“It's difficult to diagnose this war. It's an undiagnosed war.You only see the symptoms —the killing, displacements,blood baths. But you don't understand the disease.”NORI SHARIF, FILM SUBJECT, NOWHERE TO HIDE
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Mainstream, corporate news outlets have successfully reduced the validity andtrustworthiness of news reporting in recent times.
Independent journalists AmyGoodman, Glenn Greenwald,Jeremy Scahill, and Matt Taibbiare among those defending journalistic integrity, providinginvestigative alternatives—andare arguably more importantthan ever. Award-winning film-maker and TV news veteran,Fred Peabody, explores the life
and legacy of a pioneer in the world of independent journalism, I.F. Stone, and examineshow his contemporaries are exposing government and corporate deception, just as he diddecades ago. Produced by White Pine Pictures, Canada
Fred Peabody, 2016, Documentary, 92 minutes, EnglishExecutive Producers: Peter Raymont, Oliver Stone, Jeff Cohen, Steve Ord
“We have to have a media that is acounterbalance to those in power—I.F. Stone taught us that all governmentslie. When the media act as a conveyerbelt for the lies, why it matters isbecause lies take lives.”AMY GOODMAN, DEMOCRACY NOW
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500 YEARS is the story of Mayan resistance in Guatemala—to threaten the powerful and empower the dispossessed, from the first trial in the history of the Americas toprosecute the genocide of indigenous people in 2013 to a citizen’s uprising thatthreatens to topple a corrupt government.
The film exposes a world of brutality,entrenched racism and impunity, that challenges the historical narrative ofGuatemala. Driven by universal themes ofjustice, power and corruption, the film provides a platform for the majority indigenous Mayan population, who nowstand poised to reimagine their society.
500 YEARS is the third chapter of the trilogy of documentaries on Guatemala by Pamela Yatesincluding When the Mountains Tremble and How to Nail a Dictator. The trilogy, named ‘The Resistance Saga’, will be screening as a one-off immersive cinematic event at DocHouse onSunday 12 March. For more information on the DocHouse screenings of the trilogy please visitwww.dochouse.org
Pamela Yates, 2017, Documentary, 108 minutes, English, Spanish, Mayan languages
500 YEARS+Q&AUK PremiereTuesday 14 March, 18.15 | Barbican
“There is joy in dreaming about a newcountry, a country where we indigenouspeople, with our culture, our language,our spirituality, our worldview, canexist as part of this country.”DANIEL PASCUAL, PEASANT LEADER
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Grandma Gil in South Korea, Grandma Cao in China, and Grandma Adela in thePhilippines were amongst thousands of girls and young women who were sexuallyexploited by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, many through kidnapping,coercion and sexual slavery.
Some 70 years after their imprisonment, and after decades living in silence and shame abouttheir past, the wounds are still freshfor these three former, now elderly,‘comfort women’. Despite multiple formal apologies from the Japanese government issued since the early1990s, there has been little justice;
the courageous resolve of these women moves them to fight and seize their last chance to sharefirst-hand accounts of the truth with their families and the world, and to ensure that this horrific chapter of history is neither repeated nor forgotten.
Tiffany Hsiung, 2016, Documentary, 104 minutesBisaya, Mandarin, English, Japanese, Korean
THE APOLOGY+Q&AUK PremiereWednesday 15 March 15, 18:15 | BarbicanThursday 16 March, 18.30 | Picturehouse Central
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“Given the rise of nationalism, xenophobia,and misogyny in the world today, thewomen’s stories in The Apology are verypowerful reminders of why these attitudesare dangerous, and tell us how they destroyreal people’s lives.”MAYA WANG, CHINA RESEARCHER, ASIA DIVISION, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
BLACK CODE+Extended panel discussion UK PremiereFriday 10 March, 21.00 | Picturehouse CentralSaturday 11 March, 18.15 | Barbican
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“Black Code explains the internet's power for activists,and it makes plain that surveillance and digital activismare life-and-death matters.”DINAH POKEMPNER, GENERAL COUNSEL, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Based on Ronald Deibert’s book of the same name, Nicholas de Pencier’s gripping Black Code follows “internet sleuths”—or cyber stewards—from the Toronto-basedgroup Citizen Lab, who travel the world to expose unprecedented levels of global digitalespionage. The film reveals exiled Tibetan monks attempting to circumvent China’s surveillance apparatus;Syrian citizens tortured for Facebook posts; Brazilian activists who use social media to livestreampolice abuses; and Pakistani opponents of online violence campaigns against women. As this battle for control of cyberspace is waged, our ideas of citizenship, privacy, and democracy are challenged to the very core.
Nicholas de Pencier, 2016, Documentary, 88 minutes, English
Conversations between mothers and their families reveal haunting histories of womenforced into marriage as young children.
Born into Jewish communities in Yemenand Morocco where child marriage was aculturally sanctioned custom, thesewomen’s voices went largely unheard. Asthey began to have babies of their own,often working day and night to supportgrowing families and aging husbands,
their stories became a painful secret kept even from their own children. Child Mother encouragesthese women to share their life stories, and through their children’s difficult but enlightening questions, exposes an aspect of child marriage and trauma that is rarely discussed: the impact onthe family as a whole, an open wound passed on to the next generations.
Ronen Zaretzky, Yael Kipper, 2016, Documentary, 90 minutesHebrew, Moroccan and Yemeni Arabic
CHILD MOTHER+Q&AUK PremiereSaturday 11 March, 15.00 | Picturehouse CentralSunday 12 March, 18.30 | Barbican
“I was very sorry that I never had thechance to be a young, single womanwho could marry whoever she wants,whenever she wants.”TESTIMONIAL OF CHILD BRIDE, CHILD MOTHER
Shot below the radar, Complicit follows the journey of Chinese Foxconn factory migrant worker-turned-activist Yi Yeting, who takes his fight against the globalelectronic industry from his hospital bed to the international stage.
While struggling to survive hisown work-induced leukaemia, Yi Yeting teaches himself labourlaw in order to prepare a legalchallenge against his formeremployers. But the struggle todefend the lives of millions of
Chinese people from becoming terminally ill due to working conditions necessitates confrontationwith some of the world’s largest brands including Apple and Samsung. Unfortunately, neither powerful businesses nor the government are willing to have such scandals exposed.
Heather White and Lynn Zhang, 2016, Documentary, 90 minutesMandarin
COMPLICIT+Extended panel discussion World PremiereSaturday 11 March, 17.30 | Picturehouse CentralMonday 13 March, 18.15 | Barbican
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“Complicit is a fantastic film! Clear storytelling,compelling characters—the way the authoritiescrack down is very typical of China’sgovernment’s perverse response to activism.”MAYA WANG, CHINA RESEARCHER, ASIA DIVISION, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
GIRL UNBOUND:THE WAR TO BE HER+Q&AUK PremiereWednesday 15 March, 20.45 | BarbicanThursday 16 March, 21.00 | Picturehouse Central
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“I want to tell girls, fear is taught; that you are born free and you are born brave.”MARIA TOORPAKAI, FILM SUBJECT, GIRL UNBOUND
In Waziristan, Pakistan, Maria Toorpakai, with the help of her progressive father,Shamsul, defies strict Taliban law forbidding women to play sports by disguising herselfas a boy to practice and compete in squash tournaments. But when she becomes a rising star, her gender is revealed, forcing Maria to leave her home andcountry after constant death threats to both herself and her family. In Girl Unbound, we join Mariaon her journey to represent Pakistan on the national team, standing firm in her mission to carveher own identity and destiny with the support of her loving family.
Erin Heidenreich, 2016, Documentary, 80 minutesEnglish, Pashtu, Urdu
A quiet Bulgarian community on the Turkish border finds itself in the middle of aEuropean crisis.
This otherwise unremarkable villagehas become an important loophole forasylum seekers making their waythrough Europe. But Ivan, the localpostman, has a vision. He decides torun for mayor and campaigns to bringlife to the aging and increasinglydeserted village by welcoming therefugees and their families. While someof his neighbours support the idea, it
meets with resistance from others, who want to make sure the border stays shut. With surprisingwarmth, humour, and humanity, The Good Postman provides valuable insight into the root of thistimely and internationally relevant discussion.
Tonislav Hristov, 2016, Documentary, 80 minutesBulgarian
THE GOODPOSTMAN+Q&ALondon PremiereSaturday 11 March, 13.45 | BarbicanSunday 12 March, 14.00 | Picturehouse Central
“How amazing to find a little forgotten townwhere all the EU and US discussions andpolitics about refugees and immigrationare distilled so clearly. The Good Postmanhas great characters and surreal moments—genuine and moving.”BILL VAN ESVELD, SENIOR RESEARCHER, MIDDLE EAST NORTH AFRICA, CHILDREN'S RIGHTS DIVISION, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Rallying thousands of students to skip school and occupy the streets of Hong Kong,teenager Joshua Wong becomes one of the autonomous territory’s most notoriousdissidents, successfully disrupting government plans to devolve power back to China.
This inspiring documentary spends yearstracking the movement from grassroots dis-ruption to national politics. Following tear gasattacks, multiple arrests and an exhausting79-day campaign to shut down Hong Kong’sfinancial district, Joshua moves on to the nextphase of the movement— facing down thesuperpower from inside the government itself. 2017 Sundance Audience Award: WorldCinema Documentary. Courtesy of Netflix
Joe Piscatella, 2017, Documentary, 78 minutes, Cantonese, English
JOSHUA: TEENAGER VS. SUPERPOWER+Q&AExclusive PreviewFriday 10 March, 18.30 | Picturehouse CentralSaturday 11 March, 16.00 | Barbican
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“Joshua doesn’t just give you a lush,drone’s-eye view of theunprecedented protests in Hong Kong.It meticulously unpacks how JoshuaWong and other students werecompelled to mobilize to challengeauthorities. In doing so it lays barewhat’s at stake in asserting politicalrights and civil liberties in thisnominally democratic part of China.”SOPHIE RICHARDSON, CHINA DIRECTOR, ASIA DIVISION
As the Syrian war continues to leave entire generations without education, health careor a state, Lost in Lebanon closely follows four Syrians during their process of relocation.
The resilience of this Syrian com-munity currently making up a fifthof the population in Lebanon isastoundingly clear as they workhard to collaborate, shareresources and attempt to advocatefor themselves in a new land. Withthe Syrian conflict continuing topush across borders, lives arebecoming increasingly desperatedue to the devastating conse-
quences of new visa laws implemented by the Lebanese government, leaving families at risk ofarrest, detention, and deportation. Despite these obstacles, the film encourages us to look beyondthe staggering statistics of displaced refugees and focus on the individuals themselves.
Sophia and Georgia Scott, 2016, Documentary, 80 minutes, Arabic, English
LOST IN LEBANON+Q&AWorld PremiereSunday 12 March, 19.30 | Picturehouse CentralMonday 13 March, 19.00 | Picturehouse Central
“Lost in Lebanon captures many of thedifferent ways that Lebanese residency policyaffects refugees: an estimated 70 percent ofrefugees in Lebanon now lack legal statuswhich, amongst other issues, limits theirability to work, access education and healthcare, and move freely.”BASSAM KHAWAJA, LEBANON RESEARCHER, MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA DIVISION, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
The Settlers cracks open the world of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank: their daily lives, their worldviews, and their position within Israel.
With uninhibited access, the film captures thecasual zealotry, racism, and untroubled certaintyof many settlers in this contentious and contro-versial space. The existence and development ofIsraeli settlements in the West Bank is complexand elusive, and increasingly wild and tragic.Along with personal profiles, Dotan unpacks thehistory of the settlements, laying out the factswith extraordinary care and lucidity, to allow usto see the progression of actions and reactionsthat have led to the current volatile situation.
Shimon Dotan, Documentary, 2016, 110 minutes, Hebrew
THE SETTLERS+Q&AFriday 10 March, 18.15 | BarbicanSunday 12 March, 16.30 | Picturehouse Central
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“The Settlers shows intimateportraits of people who arecharismatic, idealistic, family-oriented, and deeply racist—and itdoes so in a way that shows theircomplexity and the complexity ofthe context.”SARI BASHI, ISRAEL/PALESTINE ADVOCACY DIRECTOR, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
THEY CALL US MONSTERS+Q&AUK PremiereTuesday 14 March, 18.30 | Picturehouse CentralThursday 16 March, 20.45 | Barbican
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“They Call Us Monsters conveys the complexity of theissues, the youthfulness of the subjects, and the horrificsentences that youth face when they are tried as adults.”ELIZABETH CALVIN, SENIOR ADVOCATE, CHILDREN'S RIGHTS DIVISION, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
In this powerful documentary, Juan, Jarad and Antonio, ages 14 to 16, face decades in prison in California, where juveniles older than 14 can be tried as adults for violent crimes. While incarcerated, they sign up for a screenwriting class and while collaborating on a short filmthat collectively fictionalises their lives and dreams, all three inadvertently grant the audience aremarkable insight into their minds and experiences. While the gravity of their crimes haunts everyframe, these youths are still children. To penal reform advocates, they are kids. To the law, they areadults. To their opponents, they are monsters.
Ben Lear, 2016, Documentary, 82 minutesEnglish, Spanish
Dubbed, “The Egyptian Jon Stewart,” Bassem Youssef hosts the most popular television programme in the Middle East.
In the midst of the Egyptian Arab Spring,Youssef left his job as a heart surgeon tobecome a full-time comedian, and his show‘Al-Bernameg’ (The Show) now brings in 30million viewers per episode. In a country
where freedom of speech is becoming increasingly restricted with each regime change, Youssef andhis courageous staff of young writers develop creative methods to non-violently challenge abusesof power. Enduring physical threats, protests, and legal action, the team test how far they can takethe joke.
Sara Taksler, 2016, Documentary, 111 minutesArabic, English
TICKLING GIANTS+Q&ASaturday 11 March, 20.30 | Picturehouse CentralSunday 12 March, 15.45 | Barbican
“When you go after a joker, the joke is on you.”BASSEM YOUSSEF, FILM SUBJECT, TICKLING GIANTS
Alexander Kuznetsov’s photographer’s eye is beautifully evident in his depiction ofYulia and Katia, who have lived in institutions their entire lives.
Their dreams are simple—to live in anapartment, have a job, have a rela-tionship and children, and choose thefood they eat and the clothes theywear. And yet gaining these funda-mental rights depends on a long andpainful bureaucratic process, forcingthem to meet nearly impossibly highstandards for release. Transferred
from orphanages directly to neuropsychiatric institutions in Siberia, Russia when there was no family to care for them—they have been labelled as unfit for life in the real world based on reportswritten when they were children. With immense sensitivity for its subjects, We’ll Be Alright highlights just how arbitrary and abusive the Russian care system can be.
Alexander Kuznetsov, 2016, Documentary, 77 minutesRussian
WE’LL BE ALRIGHT+Q&AUK PremiereWednesday 15 March, 18.30 | Picturehouse CentralThursday 16 March, 18.30 | Barbican
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“The access that this filmmaker had to theinstitution and the court is something I havenever seen before and never imagined.We’ll Be Alright is a story that is rarely ifever told in so much detail on film.” JANE BUCHANAN, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA DIVISION, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
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21.00 BLACK CODE + Extended Q&ANicholas de Pencier—88m
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16.00 JOSHUA + Q&AJoe Piscatella—78m
18.15 BLACK CODE + Extended Q&ANicholas de Pencier—88m
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14.00 THE GOOD POSTMAN + Q&ATonislav Hristov—80m
16.30 THE SETTLERS + Q&AShimon Dotan—110m
19.30 LOST IN LEBANON + Q&ASophia Scott, Georgia Scott—80m
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18.15 500 YEARS + Q&APamela Yates—108m
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18.30 THEY CALL US MONSTERS + Q&ABen Lear—82m
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18.15 THE APOLOGY + Q&ATiffany Hsiung—104m
20.45 GIRL UNBOUND + Q&AErin Heidenreich—80m
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20.45 THEY CALL US MONSTERS + Q&ABen Lear—82m
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21.00 GIRL UNBOUND + Q&AErin Heidenreich—80m
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All films are preceded by short introductions only. There are no trailers. Latecomers will be allowed entryat the manager’s discretion. The programme may be subject to last minute alteration. Please check withthe respective box offices for latest details. The films in this programme represent many points of view,not necessarily those of Human Rights Watch.
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FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVALMarina Pinto Kaufman, Festival ChairJohn Biaggi, Creative DirectorAndrea Holley, Strategic DirectorJennifer Nedbalsky, Associate Director, Audience EngagementLeah Sapin, Senior Programmer and New York Festival Manager Frances Underhill, AssociateRafael Jiménez, Graphic Designer ([email protected])Sarah Harvey, Head of Press ([email protected])Hayley Willis, Festival Publicist ([email protected])Katy Driscoll, Festival Publicist ([email protected])Iris Ordoñez, London Festival ManagerJohanna Brooks, London Marketing and Outreach Coordinator ([email protected])Darcy Cagen, Film Festival InternLola di Nizio, Film Festival InternKarma Gurung, Film Festival Intern
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