Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2007 in London

by Andre Soares

 

Mon colonel by Laurent HerbietLondon’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:

Detailed film descriptions can be found here.

 

THE RAILROAD ALL STARS (2006) by Chema Rodriguez: Film Review

PUNAM (2005) by Lucian Muntean: Film Review

ROSITA (2005) by Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater: Film Review

CARLA’S LIST (2006) by Michael Schüpbach: Film Review

TOTAL DENIAL (2006) by Milena Kaneva: Film Review

 

NETWORK and Sidney Lumet in New York City

WILD HOGS (2007) by Walt Becker: Film Review

AMPAS/UCLA Contemporary Documentary Series

THE NUMBER 23 (2007) by Joel Schumacher: Film Review

Ernst Lubitsch from Berlin

 

 

by Andre Soares | March 8, 2007 | Filed Under European Cinema, Film, Film Festivals, French Cinema 

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