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Crises and Migration

(US premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Raoul Peck
Year: 2012 / 100m
June 19 / 20

Award-winning Haitian born filmmaker Raoul Peck takes us on a two-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory, and colossal rebuilding efforts in post-earthquake Haiti.

(New York premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Nagieb Khaja
Year: 2012 / 88m
June 16 / 17

Alternating between the participants' scenes of daily life and Nagieb's own experiences, My Afghanistan depicts a country where civilians are the greatest victims of the war, and Afghans struggle to live in the constant shadow of violence.

(New York premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Marco Williams
Year: 2013 / 88m
June 22 / 21

The Undocumented tells the story of Marcos Hernandez, an undocumented Mexican living and working in Chicago. Marcos came to the United States, crossing through the Sonora Desert in southern Arizona.

Focus on Asia/South Asia

(New York premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Marc Wiese
Year: 2012 / 104m
June 21 / 20

Camp 14 – Total Control Zone is a fascinating portrait of a young man who grew up imprisoned by dehumanizing violence yet still found the will to escape.

Filmmaker(s): Joshua Oppenheimer
Year: 2012 / 122m
June 18 / 19

A true cinematic experiment, The Act of Killing explores a chapter of Indonesia's history in a way bound to stir debate—by enlisting a group of former killers, including Indonesian paramilitary leader Anwar Congo, to re-enact their lives in the style of the films they love.

Human Rights in the United States

(New York premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Lucian Read, Nina Krstic
Year: 2012 / 87m
June 15 / 14

In September 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement propelled issues of economic inequality into the spotlight. 99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film goes behind the scenes of the movement, revealing what happened and why.

(New York premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Al Reinert
Year: 2013 / 92m
June 18 / 16

In 1986, Michael Morton's wife Christine was brutally murdered in front of their only child, and Michael was convicted of the crime. Locked away in Texas prisons for a quarter century, he had years to ponder questions of justice and innocence, truth and fate.

(New York premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Lisa Biagiotti, Duy Linh Tu and Joe Lindquist
Year: 2012 / 72m
June 15 / 17

deepsouth explores the rural American South and the people who inhabit its most distant corners. Beneath layers of history, poverty, and now soaring HIV infections, four Americans redefine traditional Southern values to create their own solutions to survive.

Journalism

Filmmaker(s): Sebastian Junger
Year: 2013 / 79m
June 13

Photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington was always searching for the humanity within armed conflict, as evidenced in his award-winning body of work.

Traditional Values and Human Rights: Disability Rights

(US premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Harry Freeland
Year: 2012 / 84m
June 16 / 15

Filmed over six years, In the Shadow of the Sun tells the story of two men with albinism in Tanzania pursuing their dreams in the face of virulent prejudice.

Traditional Values and Human Rights: LGBT Rights

(New York premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Shaun Kadlec and Deb Tullmann
Year: 2012 / 84m
June 21 / 22

With intimate access to the lives of four young gay Cameroonians, Born This Way steps outside the genre of activist filmmaking and offers a vivid and poetic portrait of day-to-day life in modern Africa.

(New York premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Yoruba Richen
Year: 2013 / 82m
June 20 / 19

The New Black tells the story of how the African American community is grappling with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in light of the marriage equality movement and the fight over civil rights.

Filmmaker(s): Srdjan Dragojevic
Year: 2012 / 115m
June 19 / 17

Srdjan Dragojevic's The Parade takes a comedic look at Serbia through the lens of one group's fight to hold a Gay Pride parade in Belgrade.

Traditional Values and Human Rights: Women's Rights

(New York premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Freida Mock
Year: 2013 / 84m
June 14

On October 11, 1991, a poised young law professor sent shock waves through the nation as she sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee intrepidly testifying to the lewd behavior of a Supreme Court nominee.

(US premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Karima Zoubir
Year: 2012 / 59m
June 18 / 16

With enthusiastic musicians and ornate wedding parties setting the stage, we meet Khadija, a Moroccan divorcee who works as a camerawoman at weddings in Casablanca. As the film unfolds, Khadija talks candidly about the issues she faces and the competing forces at play in the lives of women in Morocco and beyond.

(New York festival premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin
Year: 2013 / 86,
June 17 / 18

In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin returned to the Kremlin as president of Russia. The vote followed months of mass protests that challenged Putin's rule.

Filmmaker(s): Jehane Noujaim and Mona Eldaief
Year: 2012 / 75m
June 20 / 22

Rafea is a Bedouin woman who lives with her daughters in one of Jordan's poorest desert villages on the Iraqi border. When she is selected for an intriguing programme called the Barefoot College in India, Rafea doesn't need to think twice, and travels to join 30 illiterate women from different countries to train to become solar engineers.

(New York premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Kim Longinotto
Year: 2013 / 90m
June 15 / 14

Like many other women in rural South Asia, Salma, a young Muslim girl in India, was forced into seclusion once she reached puberty. She was forbidden by her family to study and pushed into marriage. Words were Salma's salvation.

(New York premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Jeremy Teicher
Year: 2012 / 82m
June 23

Tall as the Baobab Tree poignantly depicts a family struggling to find its footing on the edge of the modern world fraught with tensions between tradition and modernity.