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DESCRIPTION:HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, the largest U.S.-based international human rights 
 monitoring and advocacy organization continues their outreach with the 
 fourth Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (HRWIFF) in the Bay 
 Area.  Taking place at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley from February 
 26-28 and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on 4 
 consecutive Fridays in March (5, 12, 19 and 26) this year offers twelve 
 provocative films which help put a human face on threats to individual 
 freedom and dignity, and celebrate the power of the human spirit and 
 intellect to prevail.    Human Rights Watch's International Film Festival 
 has become a leading venue for distinguished fiction, documentary and 
 animated films and videos with a distinctive human rights theme. Through 
 the eyes of committed and courageous filmmakers, we showcase the heroic 
 stories of activists and survivors from all over the world.  We seek to 
 empower everyone with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a 
 very real difference.  The festival schedule is as follows:  PACIFIC FILM 
 ARCHIVE  Saturday Feb. 28 - 1:00pm and 8:00pm  BALSEROS Directed by Carlos 
 Bosch and Josep M. Domenech  Produced in Spain, 2002/ Running Time:120m  In 
 the summer of 1994, a crew of television reporters with unprecedented 
 access filmed and interviewed seven Cubans with their relatives before they 
 set out as economic refugees on homemade rafts headed for US shores. The 
 crew followed the survivors who were rescued at sea and transported to 
 Guantánamo, a United States military base and, at that time, site of a 
 temporary refugee camp. Seven years later, this same crew reconnects with 
 their subjects to discover the outcome of their new lives in different 
 regions across the United States. Life in the US and under capitalism is 
 not a fairy tale for these refugees; BALSEROS is a true story about some of 
 the authentic survivors of our times, an epic adventure of castaways caught 
 between two worlds.  5:30pm  S-21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE Directed 
 by Rithy Panh  Produced in France, 2003/ Running Time: 101m  Q & A with 
 Richard Dicker, HRW Director of International Justice Program, following 
 screening  In the mid-70s, Cambodia's Khmer Rouge converted the Tuol Sleng 
 High School in Phnom Penh into the notorious S21 detention center. Between 
 1975 and 1977, roughly 17,000 people passed through its doors. Only seven 
 survived. Filmmaker Rithy Panh, who himself spent four years in a Khmer 
 Rouge labor camp, works with the same sense of devotion and relentless 
 pursuit of truth as Claude Lanzmann. He accompanies the detention center's 
 official painter, Vann Nath, on his first visit to S21 in more than 20 
 years, during which he confronts several of his former captors and 
 tormentors. Like Lanzmann, Panh uses cinema to get the facts on record: the 
 guards re-enact their former routines, victims are remembered and named, 
 and their stories are told. And we learn that the terror of the Khmer Rouge 
 was felt by torturers and victims alike: for four years, an entire society 
 was held in a grip of murderous terror. Essential viewing, a potent, 
 scrupulously constructed act of witness, and a step toward reconciliation 
 with an unfathomable past.  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/07/30473.php
SUMMARY:Human Rights Watch Film Festival
LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/07/30473.php
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