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class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/ai-weiwei-never-sorry" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/Still_pressshot_12_byTedAlcorn_3_CROP.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="227" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/ai-weiwei-never-sorry">Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">Alison Klayman</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2012</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/AI%20WEIWEI%20Press%20Notes.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/Aiwewei.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p>In this unprecedented look at Ai Weiwei and those close to him, filmmaker Alison Klayman captures the artist's forthright and unequivocal stance against China's oppression, painting a picture of the artist as an individual and as a powerful voice for human rights.</p></span> </div> </td> <td class="col-2 col-last"> <div class="views-field-field-poster-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/bidder-70" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/Tim%20350arms%20out%2C%20bg.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="228" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/bidder-70">Bidder 70</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">Beth and George Gage</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2012</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/Bidder%2070%20WAB%20Press%20Kit.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/Bidder70.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p><em>Bidder 70</em> tells the story of Tim DeChristopher and his stunning act of civil disobedience in a time of global climate chaos.</p></span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr class="row-2"> <td class="col-1 col-first"> <div class="views-field-field-poster-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/bitter-seeds" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/Keshav%20gesture%203.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="228" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/bitter-seeds">Bitter Seeds</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">Micha X. Peled</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2012</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/BITTER%20SEEDS%20PK.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/BitterSeeds.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p>Manjusha Amberwar, a young journalist, examines the causes of an epidemic of farmer suicides in India—one every 30 minutes—that includes her own father. She hopes that by drawing attention to their plight, she can bring an end to this tragedy. But it won't be easy.</p></span> </div> </td> <td class="col-2 col-last"> <div class="views-field-field-poster-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/brother-number-one" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/KerryHamill.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="228" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/brother-number-one">Brother Number One</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">Annie Goldson</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2011</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/BrotherNumberOnePresskit.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/BrotherNumberOneImages.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p>Through New Zealander Rob Hamill's story of his brother's death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, Brother Number One explores how the regime and its followers killed nearly 2 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979.</p></span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr class="row-3"> <td class="col-1 col-first"> <div class="views-field-field-poster-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/call-me-kuchu" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/CallMeKuchu2_filmstill_highres_300.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="228" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/call-me-kuchu">Call Me Kuchu</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">Katherine Fairfax Wright & Malika Zouhali-Worrall</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2012</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/CallMeKuchu_presskit.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/CallMeKuchu.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p>Veteran Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato insists: "if we keep on hiding, they will say we are not here." With unprecedented access, <em>Call Me Kuchu</em> examines the astounding courage and determination required to battle an oppressive government, a vicious media and a powerful church in the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.</p></span> </div> </td> <td class="col-2 col-last"> <div class="views-field-field-poster-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/color-ocean" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/coloroftheocean%2Cthe_02.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="228" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/color-ocean">Color of the Ocean</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">Maggie Peren</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2011</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/Press%20Kit.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/coloroftheocean%2Cthe_05.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p>In <em>Color of the Ocean</em>, filmmaker Maggie Peren presents a story in which the journey of two refugees collides with the paths of an altruistic tourist and a Canary Island cop. The experience they share will change the course of all their lives.</p></span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr class="row-4"> <td class="col-1 col-first"> <div class="views-field-field-poster-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/escape-fire-fight-rescue-american-healthcare" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/EscapeFire_filmstill2_OurTimeProjects.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="228" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/escape-fire-fight-rescue-american-healthcare">Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2012</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/EscapeFire_PressKit.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/EscapeFire.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p><em>Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare</em> tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can the United States save its badly broken healthcare system?</p></span> </div> </td> <td class="col-2 col-last"> <div class="views-field-field-poster-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/habibi" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/habibi1.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="228" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/habibi">Habibi</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">Susan Youssef</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2011</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/Habibi_presskit_def.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/Layla_HabibiRasakKharban.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p><strong>“We have a right to love… We have a right to be happy even if people around us go hungry and are dying. To lose these things would be to completely give in to the occupation.</strong></p><p><strong>— Layla, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestinian Territories</strong></p></span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr class="row-5"> <td class="col-1 col-first"> <div class="views-field-field-poster-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/invisible-war" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/invisiblewar.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="228" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/invisible-war">The Invisible War</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">Directed by Kirby Dick, Produced by Amy Ziering</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2011</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/INVISIBLE-WAR-PRESSKIT.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/TheInvisibleWar.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p><em>The Invisible War</em> is a groundbreaking investigative documentary about the shameful and underreported epidemic of rape within the US military. With stark clarity and escalating revelations, <em>The Invisible War</em> exposes the rape epidemic in the armed forces, investigating the institutions that perpetuate it as well as its profound personal and social consequences.</p></span> </div> </td> <td class="col-2 col-last"> <div class="views-field-field-poster-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/little-heaven" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/1.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="228" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/little-heaven">Little Heaven</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">Lieven Corthouts</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2011</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/PRESSKIT_LH.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/LittleHeavenImages.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p>Lydia is at a turning point in her life. We experience life through Lydia's expressive face and reflective diary entries, her daily routines at the Little Heaven orphanage for children living with HIV, her conversations with other children there, her doctors' appointments, and her exercise, study, and prayer.</p></span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr class="row-6"> <td class="col-1 col-first"> <div class="views-field-field-poster-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/putins-kiss" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/Putins_kiss_13.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="228" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/putins-kiss">Putin's Kiss</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">Lise Birk Pedersen</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2011</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/PK_flyer_online.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/PutinsKissImages.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p>Meet Masha, a 19-year-old who grew up in the Putin era, on her journey through the Kremlin-created Nashi youth movement. This coming-of-age tale focuses on Masha's personal political struggle and paints a grim picture of the Russian political climate.</p></span> </div> </td> <td class="col-2 col-last"> <div class="views-field-field-poster-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/reportero" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/reportero.sergio.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="228" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/reportero">Reportero</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">Bernardo Ruiz</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2011</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/Reportero%20Press%20Kit.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/Reportero.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p><em>Reportero</em> follows veteran reporter Sergio Haro and his colleagues at Zeta, a Tijuana, Mexico-based weekly, as they dauntingly ply their trade in what has become one of the most deadly places in the world to be a journalist.</p></span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr class="row-7"> <td class="col-1 col-first"> <div class="views-field-field-poster-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/salaam-dunk" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/Salaam_Dunk_5.jpg_cmyk.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="227" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/salaam-dunk">Salaam Dunk</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">David Fine</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2011</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/SalaamDunk-PressKit.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/SALAAM%20DUNK%20film%20images.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p>With plenty of pop music and 'girl power', <em>Salaam Dunk</em> delivers a tale of hope and inspiration courtesy of one winning group of Iraqi women basketball players.</p></span> </div> </td> <td class="col-2 col-last"> <div class="views-field-field-poster-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/silenced-voices" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/Silenced%20Voices10.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="228" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/silenced-voices">Silenced Voices</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">Beate Arnestad</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2012</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/SILENCED%20VOICES.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/SilencedVoices.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p>Director Beate Arnestad tells the story of the civil war in Sri Lanka based on the stories of journalists living in exile. She seeks out various reporters who risk their lives over and over to highlight the human rights violations taking place in their homeland.</p></span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr class="row-8 row-last"> <td class="col-1 col-first"> <div class="views-field-field-poster-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/special-flight-vol-sp%C3%A9cial" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/PB_Volspecial_07_1.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="228" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/special-flight-vol-sp%C3%A9cial">Special Flight (Vol spécial)</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">Fernand Melgar</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2011</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/1315475321_VS_dossier%20de%20presse_eng_0.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/SpecialFlightImages.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p>Fernand Melgar’s intimate and emotionally charged portrait of the rejected asylum seekers and illegal migrants in Switzerland’s Frambois detention centre reveals a world that few know from the inside. With amazing access to his subjects, Melgar introduces us to a community of men who share friendships, fears, and a similar fate.</p></span> </div> </td> <td class="col-2 col-last"> <div class="views-field-field-poster-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/words-witness" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-linked imagecache-film_teaser_linked"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/words.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser" width="227" height="131"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/film/words-witness">Words of Witness</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-filmmakers-value"> <label class="views-label-field-filmmakers-value"> Filmmaker(s): </label> <span class="field-content">Mai Iskander</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-year-value"> <label class="views-label-field-year-value"> Year: </label> <span class="field-content"><span class="date-display-single">2012</span></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-press-kit-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/WordsofWitnessPressKit.pdf"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-images-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/WordsofWitness.zip"><span></span></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-tagline-value"> <span class="field-content"><p>Defying cultural norms and family expectations, 22-year-old Heba Afify takes to the streets to report on an Egypt in turmoil, using tweets, texts and Facebook posts.</p></span> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div id="footer" class="row"> <div id="column1" class="footer-column column gird-4"> <ul class="links"><li class="menu-home first"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/">Home</a></li> <li class="menu-2113"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/about" title="">About</a></li> <li class="menu-293"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/cities" title="">Cities</a></li> <li class="menu-509"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/media">Related Media</a></li> <li class="menu-2084"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/traveling-festival" title="Traveling Festival">Traveling Festival</a></li> <li class="menu-2087 active-trail active"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/press" title="Press Film Festival" class="active">Press</a></li> <li class="menu-2111"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/submissions" title="">Submissions</a></li> <li class="menu-618 last"><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/past-festivals/2011" title="">Past Festivals</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="column2" class="footer-column"><ul><li><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/search">Search</a></li><li><a href="/web/20121208125014/http://ff.hrw.org/about">Contact Us</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208125014/http://www.hrw.org/privacy">Privacy Policy</a></li><li> </li><li> </li><li>350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor</li><li>New York, NY 10018-3299 / USA</li><li>© Copyright 2012, Human Rights Watch</li></ul></div> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> var _sf_async_config=Drupal.settings.chartbeat; (function(){ function loadChartbeat() { window._sf_endpt=(new Date()).getTime(); var e = document.createElement('script'); e.setAttribute('language', 'javascript'); e.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript'); e.setAttribute('src', (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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