Honolulu Human Rights Film Festival

March 2, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Dean Hall Add to Calendar

Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights along with its community and campus partners invite the public to see four of the most exciting and engaging films covering the imminent and important issues in our islands and the international affairs.

The films selected for the 4th Annual Honolulu Human Rights Film Festival are highlights of the prestigious Human Rights Watch London and New York Festivals that will be premiered on Oahu March 2 – 3 at the University of Hawai’’i at Manoa Dean Hall at 6 p.m. Admission is free.

The films covering important issues at the United Nations including women's rights, globalization and peace.

“Return to Homs” will kick off the film festival featuring an intimate portrait of a group of young revolutionaries in the city of Homs in Syria. The film won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Film at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The second film shown will be “Scheherazade’s Diary” focusing on women inmates through a 10-month drama therapy/theater project set up in a prison in Lebanon. The third film is “Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars” focusing a young Iranian woman daring to dream of a future as an astronaut. The final film is “Big Men” revealing the secretive worlds of both corporations and local communities in Nigeria and Ghana.

Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.

The film festival is sponsored by Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights, UNA-USA Hawai’i, Amnesty International – USA, Hawai’i Center for Human Rights Research & Action, UH Manoa College of Social Sciences Program for Civic Engagement, UH Hilo International Students Services and Intercultural Education and UH Manoa Ethnic Studies. For more information contact Joshua Cooper at joshuacooperhawaii@gmail.com or 808 542 7204.


Ticket Information
Free and open to public

Event Sponsor
College of Education, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Robert Don Peel, (808) 381-0218, rpeel@hawaii.edu, http://www.human-rights-hawaii.org/

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