Film
A short documentary featuring Palestinian author and human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh in which the idyllic West Bank landscape is contrasted with the devastating Arab-Israeli ideological divide.
This magical realist documentary film is set in the village of Goptapa, Kurdish Iraq. Goptapa was targeted by Saddam Hussein's chemical bombardment in 1988. Mark Cousins showed movies from around the world to the villager’s children, then they made their own short films. The results are inspiring. The film has shown around the world.
After the Revolution documents the street protests that took place in Bucharest in early 1990, capturing a moment of post-revolution anarchy in which people spoke without inhibition, cumulating in a disputed election. Laurentiu Caiciu, who shot the material on VHS in 1990, will discuss extracts of the film with producer Rupert Wolfe-Murray.
This recent Channel 4 documentary, presented by Jon Snow, investigates war crimes that allegedly took place in the final months of Sri Lanka's 25 year-long civil war in 2009. With Gordon Weiss (author of The Cage, The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers) and Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu from the Centre for Policy Alternatives (Sri Lanka’s foremost civil rights NGO), chaired by Mark Muller Stuart Q.C.