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class="block block-hrwiff_eventlist"> <div class="content"> <p class="sort-order"><span class="list-by">List by: </span><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/new-york" class="active">Title</a> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/eventlist/5/date">Date</a> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/eventlist/5/theme">Theme</a> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/eventlist/5/region">Region</a><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/venueinfo/new-york" class="venue-link">VENUE INFO</a></p> </div> </div> <div id="content-area" class="row">  <div class="content column grid_12"> <div class="film-festival"><h2 id="film-festival2013-06-13-18-00-00">Film Festival, <span>June 13–23, 2013</span></h2> <div class="row"><div id="node-4719" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/99%E2%80%94-occupy-wall-street-collaborative-film?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/99%20-%20Arrests.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/99%E2%80%94-occupy-wall-street-collaborative-film?city=5" title="99%—The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film ">99%—The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film </a></div> <div>(New York premiere)</div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Lucian Read, Nina Krstic</div> <div>Year: 2012 / 87m</div> <div>June 15 / 14 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>In September 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement propelled issues of economic inequality into the spotlight. 99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film goes behind the scenes of the movement, revealing what happened and why.</p></div> </div><div id="node-4720" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/unreal-dream-michael-morton-story?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/Morton%20with%20son%20Eric%20-%201983%20-%20photo%20courtesy%20Morton%20family.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/unreal-dream-michael-morton-story?city=5" title="An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story">An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story</a></div> <div>(New York premiere)</div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Al Reinert</div> <div>Year: 2013 / 92m</div> <div>June 18 / 16 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>In 1986, Michael Morton's wife Christine was brutally murdered in front of their only child, and Michael was convicted of the crime. Locked away in Texas prisons for a quarter century, he had years to ponder questions of justice and innocence, truth and fate.</p></div> </div><div id="node-4713" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/anita?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/Blue%20Dress.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/anita?city=5" title="Anita ">Anita </a></div> <div>(New York premiere - SOLD OUT)</div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Freida Mock</div> <div>Year: 2013 / 84m</div> <div>June 14 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>On October 11, 1991, a poised young law professor sent shock waves through the nation as she sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee intrepidly testifying to the lewd behavior of a Supreme Court nominee.</p></div> </div></div><div class="row"><div id="node-4716" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/born-way?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/alley.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/born-way?city=5" title="Born This Way">Born This Way</a></div> <div>(New York premiere)</div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Shaun Kadlec and Deb Tullmann</div> <div>Year: 2012 / 84m</div> <div>June 21 / 22 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>With intimate access to the lives of four young gay Cameroonians, Born This Way steps outside the genre of activist filmmaking and offers a vivid and poetic portrait of day-to-day life in modern Africa.</p></div> </div><div id="node-4618" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/camerawoman-preceded-going-stairs?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/Khadija%20shooting%20the%20women%20guests.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/camerawoman-preceded-going-stairs?city=5" title="Camera/Woman preceded by Going Up the Stairs">Camera/Woman preceded by Going Up the Stairs</a></div> <div>(US premiere)</div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Karima Zoubir</div> <div>Year: 2012 / 59m</div> <div>June 18 / 16 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>With enthusiastic musicians and ornate wedding parties setting the stage, we meet Khadija, a Moroccan divorcee who works as a camerawoman at weddings in Casablanca. As the film unfolds, Khadija talks candidly about the issues she faces and the competing forces at play in the lives of women in Morocco and beyond.</p></div> </div><div id="node-4606" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/camp-14-total-control-zone?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/camp.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/camp-14-total-control-zone?city=5" title="Camp 14 - Total Control Zone">Camp 14 - Total Control Zone</a></div> <div>(New York premiere)</div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Marc Wiese</div> <div>Year: 2012 / 104m</div> <div>June 21 / 20 </div> <div class="tagline"><p><em> Camp 14 – Total Control Zone</em> is a fascinating portrait of a young man who grew up imprisoned by dehumanizing violence yet still found the will to escape.</p></div> </div></div><div class="row"><div id="node-4721" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/deepsouth?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/deepsouth_candlelight.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/deepsouth?city=5" title="deepsouth">deepsouth</a></div> <div>(New York premiere)</div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Lisa Biagiotti, Duy Linh Tu and Joe Lindquist</div> <div>Year: 2012 / 72m</div> <div>June 15 / 17 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>deepsouth explores the rural American South and the people who inhabit its most distant corners. Beneath layers of history, poverty, and now soaring HIV infections, four Americans redefine traditional Southern values to create their own solutions to survive.</p></div> </div><div id="node-4619" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/fatal-assistance?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/Fatal%20Assistance.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/fatal-assistance?city=5" title="Fatal Assistance">Fatal Assistance</a></div> <div>(US premiere)</div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Raoul Peck</div> <div>Year: 2012 / 100m</div> <div>June 19 / 20 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>Award-winning Haitian born filmmaker Raoul Peck takes us on a two-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory, and colossal rebuilding efforts in post-earthquake Haiti.</p></div> </div><div id="node-4616" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/shadow-sun?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/Josephat_image%202.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/shadow-sun?city=5" title="In the Shadow of the Sun">In the Shadow of the Sun</a></div> <div>(New York premiere)</div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Harry Freeland</div> <div>Year: 2012 / 84m</div> <div>June 16 / 15 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>Filmed over six years, <em>In the Shadow of the Sun</em> tells the story of two men with albinism in Tanzania pursuing their dreams in the face of virulent prejudice.</p></div> </div></div><div class="row"><div id="node-4620" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/my-afghanistan-life-forbidden-zone?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/MyAfghanistan_PriorityStill.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/my-afghanistan-life-forbidden-zone?city=5" title="My Afghanistan - Life in the Forbidden Zone">My Afghanistan - Life in the Forbidden Zone</a></div> <div>(New York premiere)</div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Nagieb Khaja</div> <div>Year: 2012 / 88m</div> <div>June 16 / 17 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>Alternating between the participants' scenes of daily life and Nagieb's own experiences, <em>My Afghanistan</em> depicts a country where civilians are the greatest victims of the war, and Afghans struggle to live in the constant shadow of violence.</p></div> </div><div id="node-4715" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/pussy-riot-punk-prayer?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/757237_CB0C1380.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/pussy-riot-punk-prayer?city=5" title="Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer">Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer</a></div> <div>(New York festival premiere)</div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin</div> <div>Year: 2013 / 86,</div> <div>June 17 / 18 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin returned to the Kremlin as president of Russia. The vote followed months of mass protests that challenged Putin's rule.</p></div> </div><div id="node-4617" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/rafea-solar-mama?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/rafia1.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/rafea-solar-mama?city=5" title="Rafea: Solar Mama">Rafea: Solar Mama</a></div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Jehane Noujaim and Mona Eldaief</div> <div>Year: 2012 / 75m</div> <div>June 20 / 22 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>Rafea is a Bedouin woman who lives with her daughters in one of Jordan's poorest desert villages on the Iraqi border. When she is selected for an intriguing programme called the Barefoot College in India, Rafea doesn't need to think twice, and travels to join 30 illiterate women from different countries to train to become solar engineers.</p></div> </div></div><div class="row"><div id="node-4611" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/salma?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/Salma1.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/salma?city=5" title="Salma">Salma</a></div> <div>(New York premiere)</div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Kim Longinotto</div> <div>Year: 2013 / 90m</div> <div>June 15 / 14 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>Like many other women in rural South Asia, Salma, a young Muslim girl in India, was forced into seclusion once she reached puberty. She was forbidden by her family to study and pushed into marriage. Words were Salma's salvation.</p></div> </div><div id="node-4609" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/tall-baobab-tree?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/TallastheBoababTree_Sisters_Playing.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/tall-baobab-tree?city=5" title="Tall as the Baobab Tree">Tall as the Baobab Tree</a></div> <div>(New York premiere)</div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Jeremy Teicher</div> <div>Year: 2012 / 82m</div> <div>June 23 / 23 </div> <div class="tagline"><p><em> Tall as the Baobab Tree</em> poignantly depicts a family struggling to find its footing on the edge of the modern world fraught with tensions between tradition and modernity.</p></div> </div><div id="node-4605" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/act-killing?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/AOK%20-%20fish.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/act-killing?city=5" title="The Act of Killing">The Act of Killing</a></div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Joshua Oppenheimer</div> <div>Year: 2012 / 122m</div> <div>June 18 / 19 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>A true cinematic experiment, <em>The Act of Killing</em> explores a chapter of Indonesia's history in a way bound to stir debate—by enlisting a group of former killers, including Indonesian paramilitary leader Anwar Congo, to re-enact their lives in the style of the films they love.</p></div> </div></div><div class="row"><div id="node-4717" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/new-black?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/samkaress.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/new-black?city=5" title="The New Black">The New Black</a></div> <div>(New York premiere)</div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Yoruba Richen</div> <div>Year: 2013 / 82m</div> <div>June 20 / 19 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>The New Black tells the story of how the African American community is grappling with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in light of the marriage equality movement and the fight over civil rights.</p></div> </div><div id="node-4608" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/parade?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/parada.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/parade?city=5" title="The Parade">The Parade</a></div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Srdjan Dragojevic</div> <div>Year: 2012 / 115m</div> <div>June 19 / 17 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>Srdjan Dragojevic's <em>The Parade</em> takes a comedic look at Serbia through the lens of one group's fight to hold a Gay Pride parade in Belgrade.</p></div> </div><div id="node-4718" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/undocumented?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/MN_MigrantDeath_11.JPG" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/undocumented?city=5" title="The Undocumented">The Undocumented</a></div> <div>(New York premiere)</div> <div>Filmmaker(s): Marco Williams</div> <div>Year: 2013 / 88m</div> <div>June 22 / 21 </div> <div class="tagline"><p>The Undocumented tells the story of Marcos Hernandez, an undocumented Mexican living and working in Chicago. Marcos came to the United States, crossing through the Sonora Desert in southern Arizona.</p></div> </div></div><div class="row"><div id="node-4714" class="node node-type-film column grid_4"> <a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/which-way-frontline-here-life-and-time-tim-hetherington?city=5"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130609233652im_/http://ff.hrw.org/sites/all/files/2012/imagecache/film_teaser/WWITFL04.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-film_teaser imagecache-default imagecache-film_teaser_default" width="228" height="131"/></a> <div class="title"><a href="/web/20130609233652/http://ff.hrw.org/film/which-way-frontline-here-life-and-time-tim-hetherington?city=5" title="Which Way is the Frontline From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington">Which Way is the Frontline From Here? 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