Human Rights Watch Film Festival

 

 

As Tall as the Baobab Tree

 

Torn between loyalty to her elders and her dreams for the future, Coumba hatches a secret plan to rescue her younger sister from an arranged marriage. Tall as the Baobab Tree poignantly depicts an African family struggling to find its footing on the edge of the modern world fraught with tensions between tradition and modernity.

 

Screening on Monday 18^th  21:00 at Curzon Soho and Thursday 21^st March 18:30 at The Ritzy Brixton

 

Tickets at: http://ff.hrw.org/film/tall-baobab-tree?city=4

 

 

 

Nowhere Home

 

While all the boys at Salhus, a Norwegian centre offering temporary residence to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, hope for an extension of their asylum status, the threat of deportation when they turn 18—and uncertain futures in Afghanistan, Iraq, or other war-torn countries—hangs over all their heads. A visceral and provocative film,Nowhere Home scrutinises one of Europe's major moral dilemmas.

 

Screening on Wednesday 20^th March 21:00 at The Ritzy Brixton and Thursday 21^st March 18:40 at Curzon Soho

 

Tickets at: http://ff.hrw.org/film/nowhere-home?city=4

WADJDA (Closing Night)

Wadjda tells the story of a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Wadja desperately wants a bicycle, but her mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. So Wadjda decides to try to raise the money herself. It isn't going to be easy, but she is determined to fight for her dreams... with or without society's approval.

Screening on Friday 22^nd March 18.30, Ritzy Cinema

Tickets at: http://ff.hrw.org/film/wadjda?city=4

 

You can watch the high resolution version of the HRW Film festival trailer here: http://hrwnews.org/distribute/2013_LONDON_FF/FINAL%20LONDON%20TRAILER_pan.mov.zip

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