Professor Sean Hawkins (Professor of History, University of Toronto) introduces tonight’s film, My Neighbour, My Killer, a compassionate exploration into the open air hearings, which started as a social experiment in collective healing after the Rwandan genocide.
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Samer Muscati, a researcher with Human Rights Watch Middle East and North Africa division, introduces tonight’s film, Welcome, writer-director Philippe Lioret’s dramatic chronicle of intersecting lives.
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Scott Long, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Rights Division at Human Rights Watch is tonight’s special guest at the screening of Be Like Others, an intimate documentary that reveals the restrictions and painful choices forced upon individuals confined to the fringes of Iranian society.
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Journalist and author Linden MacIntyre will introduce tonight’s film, Triage, Danis Tanovic’s latest exploration of how battle alters the human heart.
The film stars Colin Farrell as a war photographer. High in the arid mountains of Kurdistan pursuing a war without borders, Mark (Colin Farrell) and David (Jamie Sives) witness and capture horrendous images, from combatants pulverized by ammunition, to a doctor who works heroically to save the wounded but shoots dead those he knows he can’t help. The friends begin to disagree over whether to stay or flee the chaos. Eventually they separate and lose contact, and Mark must return home to Ireland alone.
Director Lixin Fan will be a special guest at tonight’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival Opening Night Gala.
Lixin will introduce his award-winning film, Last Train Home, and participate in a Q&A session with Human Rights Watch Media Director, Minky Worden.
