London's 11th Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, which will be held from March 21-30, will feature 22 documentary and narrative films from 20 countries. Several screenings will be followed by discussions between filmmakers, audiences and human rights experts.
Director and screenwriter Costa-Gavras and producer Michèle Ray-Gavras will attend the screenings of Mon colonel / My Colonel (right), directed by Laurent Herbiet and written by Costa-Gavras. Mon colonel will screen at the fundraising Benefit Gala for Human Rights Watch on March 21 at the Curzon Mayfair, and at the festival's opening night gala on March 22 at The Ritzy.
Mon colonel is set both in the present and in the late 1950s, during Algeria's war of independence from France. (More on Mon colonel.)
Other filmmakers expected to attend the festival are:
- Thursday 22 to Monday 26 – Deepa Mehta for Academy Award-nominated Water
- Thursday 22 March to Friday 29 March – Sam Lawlor and Lindsay Pollock for the World Premiere of We'll Never Meet Childhood Again
- Friday 23 to Monday 26 March – Anthony Giachinno for The Camden
- Friday 23 to Monday 26 March – Eva Mulvad for Enemies of Happiness
- Saturday 24 to Wednesday 28 March – BJ Perlmutt and Nelson Walker for Lumo
- Saturday 24 to Tuesday 27 March – Miroslaw Dembinski for A Lesson of Belarusian
- Sunday 25 March to Friday 29 March Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater for Rosita
- Tuesday 27 to Friday 29 March – Rachid Bouchareb for the Academy Award- and César-nominated Indigènes / Days of Glory
- Tuesday 27 to Thursday 29 March – Milena Kaneva for Total Denial and Macabit Abramzon for Men on the Edge
Detailed film descriptions can be found here.