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| With only one week to go before the kick off the 22nd edition of the HRWFF in London, we are incredible excited and proud to bring the best in human rights storytelling to London. Be sure to book your tickets here for your favourite films as screenings are already selling out. Here’s a round-up of the inspiring screening, premieres and in-depth conversation happening during the first weekend of the #HRWFFLDN! | ||||
| THE FORCE | London Premiere + Q&A with director Pete Nicks Friday March 9, 18:15, Barbican Monday March 12, 19:30, Regent Street Cinema A young police chief, hailed as a reformer, is brought in to complete the turnaround the Oakland Police Department at the very moment the #BlackLivesMatter movement emerges to demand police accountability and racial justice across the nation. | ||||
| 12 DAYS | London Premiere + Q&A with Emina Cerimovic, Disability Rights, HRW and Stephen Cragg QC Saturday March 10, 16:00, Barbican Sunday March 11, 16:00, Barbican Raymond Depardon’s 12 Days captures the raw and vulnerable interactions at the border of justice and psychiatry, humanity and bureaucracy when a crucial decision must be made: will a patient be forced to stay in a hospital or granted freedom after being involuntarily hospitalised? This film is subtitled in English. BSL interpretation will be provided for the Q&As | ||||
| THE POETESS | UK Premiere + Q&A with Director Stefanie Brockhaus Friday March 9, 20:45, Barbican Saturday March 10, 20:30, BFI SouthbankThe Poetess is the inspiring story of a woman risking her safety and seizing an opportunity, live on TV in front of 75 million viewers, to use her wit and lyricism to critique patriarchal society and religious extremism, and to urge a more peaceful Islam. This film is subtitled in English. BSL interpretation will be provided for the Q&As | ||||
| MUHI - GENERALLY TEMPORARY + Q&A with Director Rina Castelnuovo-Hollander Sunday March 11, 18:30, Barbican Monday March 12, 20:45, BarbicanThis touching documentary lays out the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in human terms, documenting the impact these paradoxical circumstances have on individual lives. Muhi and his doting grandfather, Abu Naim, are caught in an immigration limbo and only permitted to reside in an Israeli hospital. | ||||
| INSHA'ALLAH DEMOCRACY | London Premiere + Q&A with Director Mohammed Naqvi Friday March 9, 20:20, BFI Southbank Saturday March 10, 18:30, BarbicanFilmmaker Mo Naqvi will vote for the first time during Pakistan's elections. But Mo has a tough choice: vote for religious hardliners or for the secular liberal leader, Pervez Musharraf, who happens to be a former military dictator. This film is subtitled in English. BSL interpretation will be provided for the Q&As | ||||
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