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DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, 
 we present a selection of powerful documentaries. Human Rights Watch's 
 International Film Festival has become a leading venue for distinguished 
 fiction and documentary films with distinctive human rights themes. The 
 works help to put a human face on threats to individual freedom and 
 dignity, and celebrate the power of the human spirit and intellect to 
 prevail. \n\nTotal Denial\nby Milena Kaneva (2006, 65 min, Beta)\nFri, Mar 
 2, 7:30 pm\nThis is the inspiring story of villagers from the jungles of 
 Burma whose quest for justice eventually leads them to bring suit in a US 
 court against two oil giants for human rights abuse. For five years 
 producer/director Milena Kaneva collected accounts from Burmese villagers 
 of forced labor, relocation of villages, rape and murder associated with 
 construction of the Yadana pipeline, resulting in a landmark lawsuit. 
 \n\nCamden 28\nby Anthony Giacchino (2006, 82 min, Beta)\nThu, Mar 8, 7 
 pm\nHow far would you go to stop a war? In 1971, twenty-eight men and women 
 in Camden, New Jersey, carried out a powerful act of civil disobedience 
 against United States involvement in the Vietnam War. One of their most 
 dramatic tactics was breaking into draft board offices to destroy 
 government records that identified young men available for military 
 service. Thirty-five years later, key participants openly discuss the 
 tremendous personal costs of their actions. \n\nKZ\nby Rex Bloomstein 
 (2005, 88 min, Beta)\nThu, Mar 8, 8:45 pm\nOn the banks of the river Danube 
 lies the picturesque town of Mauthausen, which attracts busloads of 
 tourists and schoolchildren every day. But this is also a place where 
 thousands of people from over thirty nations were tortured and murdered. It 
 is the site of the former KZ—in German short for concentration camp. 
 \n\nSwitch Off\nby Manel Mayol (2005, 87 min, Beta)\nThu, Mar 15, 7 pm\nThe 
 Pehuenche-Mapuche people live above the Bíobío River, in Ralco valley, 
 Chile. In 2004, Spain's largest hydroelectric company constructed the 
 world’s third largest dam. This dam flooded the valley and forced whole 
 villages to higher ground. Despite protections for indigenous people 
 enshrined in the Chilean constitution, the government has not enforced 
 their rights against the wealthy Spanish multinational. Protestors have 
 found themselves arrested under Pinochet’s anti-terrorist laws, facing 
 anonymous witnesses whose identities are concealed from even the 
 court.\n\nRain in a Dry Land\nby Anne Makepeace (2006, 83 min, Beta)\nThu, 
 Mar 15, 8:45 pm\nIn 2004, thirteen thousand Somali Bantu refugees realized 
 their dream of coming to America. They are now living in fifty cities 
 across the country, becoming the largest African group from a single 
 community to settle in the United States at one time. The film chronicles 
 two years in the lives of two extended Somali Bantu families as they leave 
 behind a 200-year legacy of oppression in Africa.\n\nRosita\nby Barbara 
 Attie and Janet Goldwater (2005, 55 min, Beta)\nThu, Mar 22, 7 & 8:45 
 pm\nIn 2003, news spreads throughout Central America that a nine-year-old 
 Nicaraguan girl has become pregnant as the result of a rape. Rosarita is 
 the only child of illiterate campesinos working in Costa Rica as coffee 
 pickers at the time of the assault. Fearing for their daughter's life and 
 mental health, her parents are determined to obtain an (illegal) abortion 
 for their child. Despite the odds, Rosa's parents move forward only to be 
 forced into battle with two governments, the medical establishment and the 
 Catholic Church.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/15/18363712.php
SUMMARY:YBCA present Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
LOCATION:YBCA screening room\n701 Mission Street\nSan Francisco, CA 94103
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/15/18363712.php
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