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Film festival on human rights continues through Saturday | The Honolulu Advertiser | Hawaii's Newspaper
Posted on: Friday, November 16, 2007

Film festival on human rights continues through Saturday

Advertiser Staff

The Hawai'i Human Rights & Fundamental Freedoms Film Festival continues through Saturday at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa's Art Auditorium. Admission is $5 unless noted.

Festival sponsors are the Hawai'i Institute for Human Rights and WITNESS, an organization created by rock star Peter Gabriel. Details at www.honoluluhipster.com. The schedule:

TODAY: HUMAN RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD

4:30 p.m. "Voices From Darfur" film (free)

4:50 p.m. Speech by Abu Asal, refugee from Darfur (free)

5:10 p.m. Q&A/discussion (free)

5:30 p.m. "The Devil Came on Horseback" screening

7:15 p.m. Film screenings:

  • "Darfur Destroyed"

  • "A Massacre Remembered"

  • "A Right to Justice"

  • "Guatemala Genocide"

  • "Human Rights in Burma" (recent videos)

  • "No Place to Go: Internally Displaced Persons in Burma"

  • "Always on the Run: Internally Displaced People in Karen State"

  • "Entrenched Abuse: Forced Labor in Burma"

  • "Voices from the Salween Valley: The Real Story Behind the Dam"

  • "From Prison to Frontline: Portering the SPDC Troops"

    8:35 p.m. Discussion led by Students for Burma.

    TOMORROW: CHILDREN'S RIGHTS AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS

    4 p.m. Children's-rights film screenings:

  • "Books Not Bars"

  • "The Diamond Life"

  • "Children of War"

  • "Youth Interrupted"

  • "A Duty to Protect"

    5 p.m. Discussion with UH professors and Amnesty International staff/intermission

    6 p.m. Women's-rights film screenings:

  • "Dual Injustice: Feminicide and Torture in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua"

  • "Bought & Sold: An Investigative Documentary About the International Trade in Women"

  • "The Price of Youth"

  • "If Hope Were Enough"

  • "The Soul Eaters"

    8 p.m. Women's-rights panel led by Women's Studies Program
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