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Results
Thu
2
WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS
Beth Murphy / 2015 / 85 min. / English, Dari, Pashtu
6:00PM - Opening Reception (w/ ticket purchase)
7:00PM - Screening, Q&A discussion to follow
What Tomorrow Brings is the story of the first all-girls school in a remote Afghan village. While the girls learn to read and write, education goes far beyond the classroom and teaches the students that girls also count.
Q&A discussion to follow screening with:
Director Beth Murphy and Razia Jan, film subject and founder of the Zabuli Education Center and Razia's Ray of Hope Foundation. Discussion moderated by Jo Becker, Advocacy Director, Children's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
Purchase tickets here
Return to Human Rights Watch Film Festival page
Fri
3
The Compound: where Los Angeles houses its most violent juvenile offenders. To their advocates, they’re kids. To the system, they’re adults and to their victims they’re monsters.
Q&A discussion to follow screening with:
Gabriel Cowan, Producer and film subject
Elizabeth Calvin, Senior Advocate, Children’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
Tickets available at EventBrite
Sat
4
ALMOST SUNRISE
Michael Collins / 2016 / 94 min.
Two young veterans, haunted by their combat experiences, take a 2,700-mile trek on foot across America seeking redemption, acceptance and a way to close the moral chasm opened by war.
Q&A discussion to follow screening with:
Marty Syjuco, film producer
Emmet Cullen, film subject
Sun
5
THE CROSSING
George Kurian / 2016 / 55 min. / English, Arabic
A first-hand account of the perilous journey made by a group of Syrian refugees, The Crossing shows us the lengths to which people go to find safety and forge their own destiny.
Q&A discussion to follow with:
Filmmaker George Kurian via Skype
Purchase tickets here
Return to Human Rights Watch Film Festival page
Sun
5
ALL GOVERNMENTS LIE
Fred Peabody / 2016 / 91 min.
Filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone and examines how independent journalists today are still changing the face of journalism - providing investigative, adversarial alternatives to mainstream, corporate news outlets.
Q&A discussion to follow screening with:
Filmmaker Fred Peabody
Purchase tickets here
Return to Human Rights Watch Film Festival page
