HRW Film Festival
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival will run 16-25 March in London. For a
schedule, links to film details, ticket and venue information, go to
http://hrw.org/iff/2005/london/. A PDF schedule is also available at
http://hrw.org/iff/2005/london/schedule.pdf.
Two films that may be of particular interest to list members are [descriptions
from festival web site]:
**Pulled from the Rubble**
Dir.: Margaret Loescher
“In August 2003, Gil Loescher went to Baghdad on a humanitarian research trip.
He and his colleagues were in a meeting with the head of the United Nations in
Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, when a truck full of explosives was driven into
the side of the building. Gil was the only survivor from the most devastated
section of the building. All the other people in the meeting died.
Through poignantly honest narration, and observational scenes of high emotion,
his daughter records the family's recovery during the months after the
bombing. Using the camera becomes her way of dealing with the suddenness of
the family's changed reality, and a way of re-visiting the haunting images of
the bomb site - a place of both horror and hope.”
Film’s web site: http://www.pulledfromtherubble.com
**The Refugee All Stars**
Dirs.: Zach Niles and Banker White
“The Refugee All Stars tells the remarkable and ultimately life-affirming
story of a group of six Sierra Leonean musicians who come together to form a
band while living as refugees in the Republic of Guinea. Forced from their
homes in Sierra Leone, the members of the band represent the thousands of
stories that exist amongst the survivors of the Sierra Leonean civil war.
Following the group over the course of three years, we see the band travel
amongst Guinean refugee camps and back to war-ravaged Freetown as part of the
UNHCR’s “go-and-see” program. Through the uplifting music and emotional
stories of these six characters, we begin to understand the brutal realities
of a war so often dismissed by the mass media and are witness to the ability
of individuals to sustain hope and create art in a landscape dominated by rage
and loss.”
Film’s web site: http://www.refugeeallstars.org
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