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DESCRIPTION:Living Rights   Duco Tellegen (Netherlands, 2005)   Introduced by Rachel 
 Shigekane   Rachel Shigekane is senior program officer at the Human Rights 
 Center and lecturer in peace and conflict studies at UC Berkeley.   
 Filmmaker Duco Tellegen (Behind Closed Eyes, HRWIFF 2002) has made a career 
 of exploring the rich psychological terrain of children and young adults in 
 critical moments of change. In Living Rights, he follows three young 
 people, on three different continents, with nothing in common except a 
 struggle to survive. The serenity of Kyoto's cityscapes is in high contrast 
 to the agony within young Yoshi, a Japanese teenager diagnosed with 
 Asperger's Syndrome (an autism-related disorder). On the plains of Kenya, 
 fourteen-year-old Toti returns from her boarding school to revisit the 
 Maasai village she escaped from as a child, and the family who had 
 attempted to marry her off. Finally, near Chernobyl, Lena has the chance to 
 be adopted by an Italian couple, and must decide between them and a foster 
 mother she loves. Shot on Super 16, Living Rights takes full advantage of 
 that format's lush imagery, bringing to life not only the problems of each 
 child, but the visual realms of their environments: the antiseptic 
 corridors of Yoshi's schoolrooms, the deep greens and browns of Toti's 
 Kenya landscapes, or the collapsed buildings of Lena's Chernobyl, where 
 nature is restaking its claim on what's left of a town.   —Jason Sanders  
  • Written by Tellegen. Photographed by Peter Brugman, Danny Elsen. (88 
 mins, In Japanese, Maasai, and Russian with English subtitles, Color, Beta 
 SP)   \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/31/86423.php
SUMMARY:Human Rights Watch Film Festival
LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive  2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch  UC Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/31/86423.php
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