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Festival: Performing Arts

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

When

June 12, 2009 – June 25, 2009

Daily (schedule)

Where

The Film Society of Lincoln Center

70 Lincoln Center Plz

212.875.5600

Price

$11

Links

Note:

A $40 festival pass gets you into any five film screenings.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center says…

For 20 years now, this festival has tirelessly recited those three little words: justice for all. This year's edition features dozens of such-minded directors, each striving to turn parchment phrases into actual social progress. Anne Aghion presents My Neighbor, My Killer, an unsparing outro to her trilogy about Gacaca (Rwanda's open-air version of Nuremberg) and its tangled wake. On a different note, Havana Marking's Afghan Star documents four entrants on the eponymous show — including two women — as they vie with 2000 hopefuls for pop supremacy. Other subjects include Chevron's Amazon "Chernobyl" case in Ecuador, the politics of Russian polymath Garry Kasparov, and, as the satiric closer, the corporate-strength shenanigans of The Yes Men Fix the World.