Mar 4–28, 2010
Every March, we present a selection of powerful films with distinctive human rights themes. The power of film cannot be underestimated to challenge the viewer and promote calls to action. Rather than wallow in despair, the films in this series celebrate the ability of the human spirit and intellect to prevail.
Thu, Mar 4 – 8
8 is comprised of eight shorts by some of the most acclaimed filmmakers in the world. Each was given complete freedom to address one issue …
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Thu, Mar 11 – Youth Producing Change
Young people are on the frontlines of many of the world's human rights crises. Armed with digital cameras, computers and their own boundless creativity, these young people bravely expose human rights issues in their communities …
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Sun, Mar 14 – The Glass House
With a virtually invisible camera, the film shows a group of courageous women working in Iran to instill a sense of empowerment and hope into the minds and lives of otherwise discarded teenage girls …
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Thu, Mar 18 – Petition
An investugation of the world of "petitioners," people who come to Beijing from all parts of China to plead their case against injustices, who then find themselves homeless and impoverished …
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Thu, Mar 25 – Promised Lands
For decades essentially impossible to see, Susan Sontag's third directorial effort (and her only documentary) scrutinizing the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, shot in Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War …
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Sun, Mar 28 – American Radical: The Trials Of Norman Finkelstein
A probing documentary about the controversial American academic, a son of holocaust survivors and ardent critic of Israel and US Middle East Policy …
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