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Over at In the Seats, I reviewed Born in Evin which screens at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival this weekend. The documentary follows actress-filmmaker Maryam Zaree as she attempts to learn m...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2020/01/31/hrwff-2020-born-in-evin/

Bassem Youssef has been called the “Egyptian Jon Stewart” for his popular brand of political satire. In a country where journalists are routinely jailed, or mysteriously go missing, for exerc...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2017/03/31/hrwff-2017-tickling-giants/

Filmed at the Greece’s Idomeni refugee camp, the largest informal refugee camp in Europe, Fantassút (Rain on the Borders) is an unflinching look at the refugee crisis through the eyes of those...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2017/03/30/hrwff-2017-fantassut/

The Toronto edition of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival kicks off today and runs until April 6th at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Screening in 20 cities around the world throughout the year, the fe...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2017/03/29/hrwff-2017-complicit-nowhere-to-hide/

TIFF® and Human Rights Watch co-present Toronto’s 14th annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival, with a poignant eight-film lineup that galvanizes an impassioned call for social change through ...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2017/02/23/provocative-tales-highlighted-at-human-rights-watch-film-festival/

TIFF® and Human Rights Watch co-present the 13th annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival in Toronto, with a galvanic lineup of eight films that recount empowering stories of survival, resilience...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2016/03/03/powerful-stories-of-struggle-and-survival-at-human-rights-watch-film-festival/

Christopher Beck retired from the United States Navy in 2011 after 20 years of service. During his time as a Navy SEAL, Beck was involved in the first Gulf War as well as tours of duty in Bosnia,...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2015/04/04/hrwff-2015-lady-valor-the-kristin-beck-story/

Burden of Peace opens with a grainy televised clip of former dictator Efraín Rios Montt speaking to the Guatemalan people. He is preaching for the need to be ruthless when dealing with communist...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2015/04/01/hrwff-2015-burden-of-peace/

A slow tracking shot of a quiet room with curtains featuring birds brings us into Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone. The tranquil setting is violently interrupted by a bomb going off. The blast ...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2013/04/01/hrwff-review-the-patience-stone/

There are currently over 200,000 people in labour camps in North Korea. Citizens can end up in a labour camp for any number of reasons including: violent acts, misdemeanor offences for openly opp...

https://cinemaaxis.com/2013/03/29/hrwff-review-camp-14-total-control-zone/