Films in Human Rights Watch 2013

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  • Putin's Kiss
  • Putins kys
  • Lise Birk Pedersen

  • A patriotic young Russian journalist begins to question her commitment to the strongarm policies of the Putin regime in this politically charged coming-of-age tale.

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  • Camp 14: Total Control Zone
  • Marc Wiese

  • This powerful documentary employs intimate interviews and animated recreations to tell the story of Shin Dong-hyuk, whose dramatic escape from the North Korean labour camp where he had spent the first two decades of his life launched him into an outside world he had never known.

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  • The People of the Kattawapiskak River
  • Alanis Obomsawin

  • Iconic filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin offers a shattering look at the Attawapiskat First Nation community in northern Ontario, where shockingly low living standards — and the Canadian government's gross mismanagement — compelled Chief Theresa Spence to declare a state of emergency in 2011.

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  • Pablo Larraín

  • Gael Garcia Bernal stars as a savvy young ad exec in 1988 Chile who is recruited to craft the political opposition's publicity campaign when the rule of dictator Augusto Pinochet is put to a national plebiscite.

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  • The Act of Killing
  • Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, Anonymous

  • In this chilling and inventive documentary, the unrepentant former members of Indonesian death squads are challenged to re-enact some of their many murders in the style of the American movies they love.

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  • No Place on Earth
  • Janet Tobias

  • This enthralling documentary recreates the experiences of thirty-eight Ukrainian Jews who survived the Holocaust by living in caves for eighteen months — a remarkable story of survival that had remained untold for decades.

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  • A World Not Ours
  • Mahdi Fleifel

  • Mahdi Fleifel's dazzling first-person documentary takes us inside the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh, where the approaching World Cup championship has become a means for the residents to articulate their own ideas of home, community, victory and hope.

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  • The Parade
  • Parada
  • Srdjan Dragojevic

  • A fight by gay activists to stage a pride parade in Belgrade sparks an unlikely alliance in this comedic and insightful look at contemporary Serbia.

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  • Tall as the Baobab Tree
  • Grand comme le Baobab
  • Jeremy Teicher

  • A young African girl hatches a secret plan to save her little sister from an arranged marriage, in this poignant depiction of a land and a people caught between tradition and modernity.

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  • The Patience Stone
  • Syngué Sabour
  • Atiq Rahimi

  • A woman in war-torn Afghanistan delivers an engrossing, emotional monologue to her comatose husband, in novelist and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi's poetic and politically charged allegory based on his award-winning novel.

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