HRW Film Fest

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  Tall as the Baobab Tree

  Jeremy Teicher

  PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2013

  The topic – a Senegalese teenager attempting to stop her younger sister's forced marriage – and themes – the conflict bet...

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  A World Not Ours

  Mahdi Fleifel

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2013

  The tone of Mahdi Fleifel's rumination on life in Palestinian refugee camp Ein el-Helweh is unexpected. Most would take one look at the sub...

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  Camp 14: Total Control Zone

  Marc Weise

  PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2013

  Perceptions of morality are entirely based upon systematic methods of control. There is no right; there is no wrong; there is only what we'...

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  The Parade

  Srdjan Dragojevic

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2013

  Taking a page from the book of Almodovar, Serbian director Srdjan Dragojevic's latest socio-political analysis, The Parade, makes campy and...

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  Putin's Kiss

  Lise Birk Pedersen

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2013

  Starting with a brief history of political change in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Lise Birk Pedersen's Putin's Kiss se...

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  No Place On Earth

  Janet Tobias

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2013

  Even though the subject of WWII atrocities is no stranger to the documentary medium, director Janet Tobias defies the notion that the Holoc...

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  The Patience Stone

  Atiq Rahimi

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2013

  Though based on his acclaimed novel of the same name, Atiq Rahimi's cinematic adaptation of The Patience Stone has the monologue-driven lyr...