{"id":9676,"date":"2022-04-13T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T19:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=9676"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T19:23:06","slug":"the-2022-human-rights-watch-film-festival-may-20-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=9676","title":{"rendered":"The 2022 Human Rights Watch Film Festival, May 20-26"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/b>The Human Rights Watch Film Festival Presents
<\/span><\/b>Full Lineup of Cinematic Works in New York Edition, May 20-26, 2022
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Co-presented by Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center<\/span><\/b><\/h3>\n

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New York, April 13, 2022 \u2014 <\/b>The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 33rd year, will present a full edition of 10 groundbreaking new films, available both in-person and online nationwide in the U.S., from May 20 to 26, 2022. For the first time in two years, the New York festival will be back with a full program of in-person screenings at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center, with in-depth discussions with filmmakers, film participants, activists and Human Rights Watch researchers. The festival will continue to offer the opportunity to watch all 10 new films online across the U.S. with a full digital edition of the film festival.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s edition highlights activism and features courageous individuals around the world standing up to powerful forces and demanding change. John Biaggi, Director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, said, \u201cWe are thrilled to be back in theaters after two years away, bringing our audience a full slate of powerful films tackling urgent human rights issues including China, Russia, the climate crisis and reproductive rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full 2022 lineup is as follows:<\/b><\/p>\n

Clarissa\u2019s Battle<\/i><\/b>, <\/b>Tamara Perkins, USA
\nDelikado<\/i><\/b>, <\/b>Karl Malakunas, Philippines, Hong Kong, Australia, USA, UK
\nEternal Spring<\/i><\/b>, <\/b>Jason Loftus, Canada
\nThe Janes<\/i><\/b>, <\/b>Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes, USA
\nMidwives<\/i><\/b>, <\/b>Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, Myanmar, Germany, Canada
\nThe New Greatness Case<\/i><\/b>, <\/b>Anna Sishova, Finland, Croatia, Norway
\nNo U-Turn<\/i>, <\/b>Ike Nnaebue, France, Nigeria, South Africa, Germany
\nRebellion<\/i>,<\/b> Maia Kenworthy, Elena Sanchez Bellot, UK, Poland
\nUp To G-Cup<\/i><\/b>, Jacqueline van Vugt, Netherlands
\nYou Resemble Me<\/i><\/b>, Dina Amer, France, Egypt, USA<\/p>\n

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The Janes by directors Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes. Photo: Courtesy of HBO<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cThe partnership between Film at Lincoln Center and Human Rights Watch is more important than ever in demonstrating the power of film to shine a light on international crises and individuals fighting for freedoms and human rights around the world,\u201d said Lesli Klainberg, President of Film at Lincoln Center. \u201cHistory has shown that film not only empowers understanding, but also ignites urgent public dialogues about how to help the most vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Vanco, Senior Vice President and General Manager at IFC Center, said, \u201cIFC Center is proud to continue our partnership with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival and support their mission to use cinema to shine a light on important issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

The festival opens with Rebellion<\/i>, the exhilarating behind-the-scenes story of Extinction Rebellion (XR), following the group as it takes daring steps to draw attention to the climate emergency, and confront both internal tensions and the harmful power structures in the climate movement itself. The festival will close with the Sundance Film Festival hit, The Janes<\/i>, which showcases a group of brave and bold women, many speaking on the record for the first time, who built an underground, clandestine network in 1970s Chicago for women seeking safe, affordable, but otherwise illegal, abortions.<\/p>\n

With stunning animation and powerful interviews, Eternal Spring<\/i> tells the gripping story of brave members of a religious movement who protest their persecution by the Chinese government by hijacking the local TV station. And, the one drama in this year\u2019s festival, You Resemble Me<\/i>, is an impressive first feature by Dina Amer which explores the complex life of Hasna A\u00eft Boulahcen, a survivor of abuse in France who sought support and opportunities to belong, but whose life was cut short by her radicalization. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and its executive producers are Spike Lee, Spike Jonze, Riz Ahmed and Alma Har\u2019el.
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In Delikado<\/i><\/b>, three environmental defenders are tested as never before in their battle to save their home, Palawan, an island paradise in the Philippines, from the illegal destruction of its forests, fisheries and mountains. Clarissa\u2019s Battle<\/i> <\/b>features the single mother and unstoppable activist Clarissa Doutherd, who works tirelessly to build a coalition of parents in Oakland, California, to fight for local and federal child care funding. With brave honesty a group of Kurdish and Yazidi women reveal the challenges they face in a male-dominated society in Up To G-Cup<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n

The<\/i> New Greatness Case<\/i><\/b> offers remarkable access to a group of young Russians entrapped by the secret service, resulting in unjust trials and prison sentences, echoing the intensified crackdown on dissent and free expression in Russia seen on the news every day. In Midwives<\/i><\/b>, amid an environment of ever-increasing chaos and violence against the Muslim Rohingya population in Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine State, two midwives, one Buddhist and one Muslim, work side by side in a makeshift clinic, providing medical services to the opressed minority community. No U-Turn<\/i><\/b>,<\/i> by the celebrated Nigerian director Ike Nnaebue<\/b>, takes viewers on a journey with Nigerian citizens leaving their country, traveling north through Africa and beyond in search of work and opportunity to build a future, despite the known and unknown challenges lying ahead.<\/p>\n

As always, the festival strives to prioritize space for identities, viewpoints, forms of expertise and experiences either silenced or marginalized in the film industry, news, and media. Seventy percent of this year\u2019s filmmakers are women and 70 percent are sharing a story about their own region. This program reflects the festival\u2019s ethos of celebrating diversity of content and perspective. Select films in this year\u2019s festival will be audio described for audience members who are blind or have low vision, and closed captions will be offered for deaf and hard of hearing members of the audience. See website https:\/\/ff.hrw.org\/newyork<\/a> for accessibility specifications for each film in the lineup.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE FILMS<\/b><\/p>\n

Rebellion
\nU.S. Premiere
\n<\/i>Directed by Maia Kenworthy and Elena Sanchez Bellot, 2021, Documentary, 82 minutes, English
\n<\/b>Rebellion<\/i> brings viewers behind-the-scenes with Extinction Rebellion (XR), as the group confronts the climate emergency \u2013 reminding the world there is no time to wait. Emerging as action on climate change dangerously slipped from the political agenda, XR took bold steps to break through the deadlock: mass civil disobedience. It worked. In 2019, within days of XR protests and over 1,000 arrests, the UK Parliament declared a climate emergency and propelled the issue back into public consciousness. Countries around the world followed suit. Yet, just as XR became a global phenomenon, internal tensions rose within the group, with XR Youth calling out the movement for perpetuating structural and social inequalities and focusing on climate change rather than acknowledging the need for climate justice. Rebellion<\/i> reminds viewers to question white Western environmentalism and push back against a fight that ignores structural racism and oppression.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we want to change anything, if we want to do anything radically different, we have to start putting different voices at the center.” \u2014 Savannah Lovelock, Film Participant, Rebellion<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cI think the reason why the question, \u2018Is it too late?\u2019 annoys me is because \u2013 is it too late for whom? And for what? I feel like it\u2019s very important for people to ask a better question, frankly. Which is: what can I do? And what needs to be done?\u201d \u2014 Farhana Yamin, Film Participant, Rebellion<\/i><\/p>\n

In-person screening:
\nFriday, May 20, 7:00pm, Film at Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater<\/b><\/p>\n

Digital screening:
\nAvailable to watch at your own pace, any time between May 20-26, 2022 on the festival\u2019s digital streaming platform.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Janes<\/b><\/p>\n


\nDirected by Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes, 2022, Documentary, 101 minutes, English
\nGrand Jury Prize Documentary Nominee, Sundance Festival, 2022
\n<\/b>In the spring of 1972, police raided an apartment on the South Side of Chicago \u2013 arresting and charging seven women who were part of a clandestine network. Using code names, fronts, and safe houses to protect their identities and their work, they built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable abortions in the pre-Roe v. Wade era, a time when abortion was a crime in most states and even circulating information about abortion was a felony in Illinois. They called themselves \u201cJane.\u201d Oscar-nominated Tia Lessin and Emmy-nominated Emma Pildes\u2019 revelatory documentary could not be more timely, The Janes <\/i>offers first-hand accounts from the women at the center of the group, many speaking on the record for the first time. This galvanizing documentary tells the story of the past and, potentially, the future.<\/p>\n

Courtesy of HBO Documentary Films<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Janes<\/i> highlights the real dangers of restrictive abortion laws and the harms of criminalizing abortion. It really shows just how much is at stake right now in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Annerieke Smaak Daniel, Researcher, Women\u2019s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch<\/p>\n

In-person screening:
\nThursday, May 26, 7:00pm, IFC Center<\/b><\/p>\n

Digital screening:
\nAvailable to watch at your own pace, any time between May 20-26, 2022 on the festival\u2019s digital streaming platform.<\/b><\/p>\n

Clarissa\u2019s Battle<\/b><\/p>\n


\nWorld Premiere
\n<\/i>Directed by Tamara Perkins, 2022, Documentary, 90 minutes, English
\n<\/b>Single mother and organizer Clarissa Doutherd is building a powerful coalition of parents. They\u2019re fighting for child care and early education funds, desperately needed by low-and middle-income parents and children across the United States. Driven by her own experience losing child care and becoming unhoused with her infant son, Xavier, she seems to be everywhere at once – at hearings, election rooms, and rallies from Oakland, California to Washington, DC. But juggling this work with raising her son pushes Clarissa into a personal health crisis far too common among stressed, working mothers, especially women of color. When the lockdown pushes more families into desperate circumstances, Clarissa and her coalition redouble their efforts, with the stakes higher than ever. Clarissa\u2019s Battle<\/i> offers an insight into an erupting movement, as communities across the country follow Clarissa\u2019s successes, setbacks and indomitable resilience.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we build from the ground up, from the grassroots up, when we include seniors, when we include monolingual Spanish speakers, when we include everybody from the community to come and campaign and fight for justice for our children, then that’s how we win.\u201d \u2014Clarissa Doutherd, Film Participant, Clarissa\u2019s Battle<\/i><\/p>\n

In-person screenings:<\/b><\/p>\n


\nSaturday, May 21, 8:00pm, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nSunday, May 22, 5:15pm, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center<\/b><\/p>\n

Digital screening:
\nAvailable to watch at your own pace, any time between May 20-26, 2022 on the festival\u2019s digital streaming platform.<\/b><\/p>\n

Delikado<\/b><\/p>\n

New York Premiere
\n<\/i>Karl Malakunas, 2022, Documentary, 94 minutes, English, Filipino
\nOfficial Selection, Hot Docs 2022
\n<\/b>Palawan in the Philippines appears to be an idyllic tropical island, with its powder-white beaches and lush forests making it one of Asia\u2019s most visited tourist destinations. But for a small network of environmental crusaders, it is more akin to a battlefield. Bobby, Tata and Nieves \u2013 a charismatic lawyer, a former illegal logger and a fearless politician \u2013 are three magnetic leaders fighting to stop corporations and governments seeking to plunder increasingly valuable natural resources. Often from Indigenous communities, environmental defenders in the Philippines are killed with impunity and the killers are rarely caught. The battles these climate activists fight are shared by allies worldwide \u2013 but the abusive government of President Rodrigo Duterte adds urgency to this deepening human rights crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cDelikado<\/i> is an important and powerful film. The tension is palpable throughout \u2026 but so is the incredible courage of the environmental defenders portrayed.\u201d \u2014Luciana Tellez-Chavez, Researcher, Environment and Human Rights Division, Human Rights Watch<\/p>\n

In-person screenings:
\nSunday, May 22, 8:00pm, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nTuesday, May 24, 9:00pm, IFC Center<\/b><\/p>\n

Digital screening:
\nAvailable to watch at your own pace, any time between May 20-26, 2022 on the festival\u2019s digital streaming platform.<\/b><\/p>\n

Eternal Spring<\/b><\/p>\n

U.S. Premiere
\n<\/i>Directed by Jason Loftus, 2022, Documentary, 86 minutes, Mandarin Chinese, English
\n<\/b>In March 2002, members of the outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong hijacked a state TV station in China. Their goal was to counter the government narrative about their practice. In the aftermath, police raids sweep Changchun City, and comic book illustrator, Daxiong (Justice League<\/i>, Star Wars<\/i>), a Falun Gong practitioner, is forced to flee. He arrives in North America, blaming the hijacking for worsening a violent repression. But his views are challenged when he meets the lone surviving participant to have escaped China, who is living in Seoul, South Korea. Combining present-day footage with 3D animation inspired by Daxiong\u2019s art, Eternal Spring<\/i> retraces the event on its 20th anniversary, and brings to life an unprecedented story of defiance, harrowing eyewitness accounts of persecution, and an exhilarating tale of determination to speak up for political and religious freedoms, no matter the cost.<\/p>\n

\u201cHistory has taught Chinese people a lesson: dare to stand up to the Party, and you will suffer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Daxiong, Film Participant, Eternal Spring<\/i><\/p>\n

In-person screenings:
\nMonday, May 23, 6:15pm, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nTuesday, May 24, 6:30pm, IFC Center<\/b><\/p>\n

Digital screening:
\nAvailable to watch at your own pace, any time between May 20-26, 2022 on the festival\u2019s digital streaming platform.<\/b><\/p>\n

Midwives<\/b><\/p>\n


\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/i>Directed by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, 2022, Documentary, 91 minutes, Rohingya, Rakhine, Burmese
\nWinner, World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Excellence in Verit\u00e9 Filmmaking, Sundance 2022
\n<\/b>Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of an under-resourced medical clinic in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya (a Muslim minority community) are persecuted and denied basic rights. Nyo Nyo is a Rohingya and an apprentice midwife who acts as assistant and translator at the clinic. Despite living in the area for generations, Nyo Nyo and her family are still considered intruders. Risking her own safety daily by helping Muslim patients, she is determined to become a steady healthcare provider and resource for the families who desperately need her. Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing\u2019s remarkable feature debut was filmed over five turbulent years in Myanmar, shining a spotlight on these courageous women who unite to bring forth life, despite the risks and challenges of their own, offering a rare insight into the complex reality of Myanmar and its people.<\/p>\n

In-person screenings:
\nSaturday, May 21, 5:15pm, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nMonday, May 23, 6:30pm, IFC Center<\/b><\/p>\n

Digital screening:
\nAvailable to watch at your own pace, any time between May 20-26, 2022 on the festival\u2019s digital streaming platform.<\/b><\/p>\n

The New Greatness Case<\/b><\/p>\n


\nWorld Premiere
\n<\/i>Anna Shishova, 2022, Documentary, 92 minutes, Russian
\n<\/b>With the current intensified crackdown on dissent and free expression in Russia, The New Greatness Case <\/i>brings viewers into the life of young Russians caught in the crossfire. Anya was an ordinary teenager, discussing Russian politics and social issues on the internet with a group of friends, when a secret agent joined their chat group and rented them a meeting space \u2013 pushing them toward direct physical action. Police stormed their homes to arrest and jail the teens, accusing them of plotting to overthrow the government and fabricating charges of extremism. Three years later, Anya\u2019s mother, continuing her desperate fight to prove her daughter\u2019s innocence, has transformed from a loyal follower of Vladimir Putin to a hunger-strike enacting political activist. With hidden camera footage, and an intimate relationship with the protagonists, the director, Anna Shishova, shows the complete repression of present-day Russia, and how young, free-thinking people, are seen as a threat to the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cA courageous and dedicated film with incredible scenes. The case against the kids is so grotesque, it keeps you watching for the next twist.\u201d \u2014Bill Van Esveld, Associate Director, Children\u2019s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch<\/p>\n

In-person screenings:
\nTuesday, May 24, 9:00pm, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nWednesday, May 25, 6:30pm, IFC Center<\/b><\/p>\n

Digital screening:
\nAvailable to watch at your own pace, any time between May 20-26, 2022 on the festival\u2019s digital streaming platform.<\/b><\/p>\n

No U-Turn<\/b><\/p>\n


\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/i>Ike Nnaebue, 2022, Documentary, 94 minutes, English, Igbo, French, Nigerian Pidgin
\nSpecial Mention, Documentary Award, Berlinale 2022
\n<\/b>As a young man, celebrated Nigerian director Ike Nnaebue left Nigeria taking the route via Benin, Mali, and Mauritania to Morocco where he was forced to turn back, unable to reach Europe. In his first documentary, No U-Turn<\/i>, he retraces the life-changing journey he made over 20 years ago. Along the way, he meets those who are taking the same trip and, through conversations with them, tries to understand what motivates young people today to expose themselves to the dangers of a passage into an uncertain future. Most are aware of the dangers of traveling undocumented by road, yet more and more are joining the ranks of those who take this risk, despite widely circulated images and terrifying testimonies found online of people who have been lured into slavery and bondage. Overlaid with a powerful poetic commentary, this self-reflective travelogue hints at the deep longing of an entire generation for a better life.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo U-Turn<\/i> is a strong documentary that provides answers to questions around the motivations for migrating and experiences on the journey.\u201d \u2014Anietie Ewang, Researcher, Africa Division, Human Rights Watch<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy is it unrealistic to dream of comfortable life in a continent of abundant resources?\u201d \u2014Ike Nnaebue, Director, No U-Turn<\/i><\/p>\n

In-person screenings:
\nTuesday, May 24, 6:15pm, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nWednesday, May 25, 9:00pm, IFC Center<\/b><\/p>\n

Digital screening:
\nAvailable to watch at your own pace, any time between May 20-26, 2022 on the festival\u2019s digital streaming platform.<\/b><\/p>\n

Up To G-Cup<\/b><\/p>\n


\nWorld Premiere
\n<\/i>Jacqueline van Vugt, 2022, Documentary, 80 minutes, Kurdish, Arabic
\n<\/b>Northern Iraq\u2019s first lingerie store not only sells underwear, but also acts as a meeting place where women connect to their bodies and sensuality after overcoming the traumas of oppression, war, and conservative morality. The store is in Suleimaniyah, a city in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq, where the male management of the mall state: \u201cA billboard of a woman in lingerie is not possible – a woman in a bra and thong but without a head, maybe.\u201d Yet the women in Up to G-Cup <\/i>are open with each other and the camera. Director Jacqueline van Vugt captures intimate stories about love, sex, shame, and war.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen, girls – all their decisions have to be approved by the family. You can\u2019t choose your own husband. Our culture doesn\u2019t allow us to follow our hearts, your heart has to stay hidden.\u201d \u2014Shyaw, Film Participant, Up to G-Cup<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is my dream that one day in Kurdistan too, lingerie will be seen like other clothes and no longer be a taboo subject.\u201d \u2014Shapol, Film Participant, Up to G-Cup<\/i><\/p>\n

In-person screenings:
\nMonday, May 23, 9:00pm, IFC Center
\nWednesday, May 25, 9:00pm, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center<\/b><\/p>\n

Digital screening:
\nAvailable to watch at your own pace, any time between May 20-26, 2022 on the festival\u2019s digital streaming platform.<\/b><\/p>\n

You Resemble Me<\/b><\/p>\n


\nNew York Premiere
\n<\/i>Directed by Dina Amer, 2021, Drama, 91 minutes, Arabic, French
\n<\/b>Who was Hasna A\u00eft Boulahcen? After the November 2015 Paris bombings, she was labelled \u201cEurope\u2019s first female suicide bomber.\u201d Journalists swarmed to her story, trying to extract details about the mysterious young woman who lived on the outskirts of Paris. In this drama, executive-produced by Spike Lee, Spike Jonze, Riz Ahmed and Alma Har\u2019el, director, Dina Amer, pieces together Hasna\u2019s story from over 300 hours of interviews, from a little girl protecting her younger sister from an abusive home to a young woman who finds herself trying her best to survive on the streets. This nuanced drama shows what happens when society fails to protect a child, and how discrimination, poverty, and abuse facing young people can allow radicalization to plant roots and grow, with devastating impact on the wider community.<\/p>\n

\u201cA very compelling depiction of how radicalization happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Sara Kayyali, Syria Researcher, Human Rights Watch<\/p>\n

\u201cThe film is an invitation to look before and behind the headlines, not for absolute truths or permanent answers, but an insistence on lifting the veils and beginning the conversations that conceal our shared humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Dina Amer, Director, You Resemble Me<\/i><\/p>\n

In-person screenings:
\nMonday, May 23, 9:00pm, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nWednesday, May 25, 6:15pm, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center<\/b><\/p>\n

Digital screening:
\nAvailable to watch at your own pace, any time between May 20-26, 2022 on the festival\u2019s digital streaming platform.<\/b><\/p>\n

Schedule of Screenings<\/b>:<\/b><\/p>\n

Digital Screenings:
\n<\/b>The full festival lineup is available to audiences across U.S. to stream at their own pace from May 20 at 9am EDT \u2013 11:59pm PST on the film festival\u2019s digital festival platform.<\/p>\n

In-Person Screenings:<\/b><\/p>\n

Friday, May 20 \u2014 Opening Night<\/b><\/p>\n


\nRebellion
\n<\/i>7:00pm EDT, Film at Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Maia Kenworthy, Elena Sanchez Bellot<\/b><\/p>\n

Saturday, May 21<\/b><\/p>\n


\nMidwives
\n<\/i>5:15pm EDT, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing<\/b><\/p>\n

Clarissa\u2019s Battle
\n<\/i>8:00pm EDT, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Tamara Perkins<\/p>\n

Sunday, May 22
\nClarissa\u2019s Battle
\n<\/i>5:15pm EDT, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Tamara Perkins<\/b><\/p>\n

Delikado
\n<\/i>8:00pm EDT, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Karl Malakunas<\/p>\n

Monday, May 23
\nEternal Spring
\n<\/i>6:15p.m. EDT, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Jason Loftus<\/p>\n

Midwives
\n<\/i>6:30pm EDT, IFC Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing<\/b><\/p>\n

You Resemble Me
\n<\/i>9:00pm EDT, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Dina Amer<\/b><\/p>\n

Up to G-Cup
\n<\/i>9:00pm EDT, IFC Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Jacqueline van Vugt<\/b><\/p>\n

Tuesday, May 24<\/b><\/p>\n


\nNo U-Turn
\n<\/i>6:15pm EDT, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Ike Nnaebue<\/b><\/p>\n

The New Greatness Case
\n<\/i>9:00pm EDT, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Anna Shishova<\/b><\/p>\n

Eternal Spring
\n<\/i>6:30pm EDT, IFC Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Jason Loftus<\/b><\/p>\n

Delikado
\n<\/i>9:00pm EDT, IFC Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Karl Malakunas<\/p>\n

Wednesday, May 25<\/b><\/p>\n


\nYou Resemble Me
\n<\/i>6:15pm EDT, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Dina Amer<\/b><\/p>\n

Up to G-Cup
\n<\/i>9:00pm EDT, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Jacqueline van Vugt<\/b><\/p>\n

The New Greatness Case
\n<\/i>6:30pm EDT, IFC Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Anna Shishova<\/b><\/p>\n

No U-Turn
\n<\/i>9:00pm EDT, IFC Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Ike Nnaebue<\/b><\/p>\n

Thursday, May 26 \u2013 Closing Night<\/b><\/p>\n


\nThe Janes
\n<\/i>7:00pm EDT, IFC Center
\nFollowed by a Q&A with Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes<\/b><\/p>\n

All films are preceded by short introductions only. There are no trailers. Latecomers will be allowed entry at the manager\u2019s discretion.<\/p>\n

The films in this program represent many points of view that are not necessarily those of Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n

Please be advised the films in this program contain material that may be disturbing to some viewers. Visit our website for specific content advisories.<\/i><\/p>\n

All cinemas are wheelchair accessible and assistive listening devices are available for all screenings. Please see https:\/\/ff.hrw.org\/newyork<\/a> for accessibility options for each event.<\/p>\n

By attending our events, you affirm that you have not tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 10 days, have not been diagnosed with Covid-19 by a healthcare provider in the past 10 days, nor have you experienced common symptoms of Covid-19 within the last 48 hours<\/i>. We recommend that everyone planning to attend one of our events take a rapid test shortly before leaving for the event and if the test is positive to refrain from attending.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Film at Lincoln Center fulfills its mission through the programming of festivals, series, retrospectives, and new releases; the publication of Film Comment<\/i>; and the presentation of podcasts, talks, special events, and artist initiatives. Since its founding in 1969, this nonprofit organization has brought the celebration of American and international film to the world-renowned Lincoln Center arts complex, making the discussion and appreciation of cinema accessible to a broad audience and ensuring that it remains an essential art form for years to come.<\/p>\n

Film at Lincoln Center receives generous, year-round support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Film at Lincoln Center. For more information, visit\u00a0www.filmlinc.org<\/a> and follow @filmlinc on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

IFC Center<\/b>
\n<\/b>IFC Center is a five-screen, state-of-the-art cinema in the heart of New York\u2019s Greenwich Village that opened in June 2005 following an extensive renovation of the historic Waverly Theater. IFC Center presents the very best in new foreign-language, American independent and documentary features to audiences and is also known for its innovative repertory series and festivals, showing short films before its regular features in the ongoing \u201cShort Attention Span Cinema\u201d program, and special events such as the guest-programmed \u201cMovie Nights\u201d and frequent in-person appearances by filmmakers. In 2010, IFC Center launched the acclaimed DOC NYC festival, a high-profile showcase that celebrates nonfiction filmmaking and is now the largest documentary festival in the US. For additional theater information, current and upcoming program details and more, visit\u00a0www.ifccenter.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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