Sonita - if 18-year-old Sonita had a say, Michael Jackson and Rihanna would be her parents and she'd be a rapper who tells the story of Afghan women and their fate as child brides. She finds out that her family plans to sell her to an unknown husband for $9,000. Photo: Behrouz Badrouj The 20th edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival will run in London from March 9 to 18, featuring 16 documentaries and dramas. The films include George Amponsah’s The Hard Stop about Mark Duggan and the Tottenham riots, Sundance World Documentary Grand Jury and Audience award winner Sonita, and Dalibor Matanić’s Cannes Film Festival winner The High Sun.
To celebrate this 20th anniversary edition the festival also includes four additional special programmes combining visual media with in-depth discussions about filmmaking and human rights between Human Rights Watch experts and independent human rights advocates including Charif Kiwan, spokesman for a Syrian film collective,...
To celebrate this 20th anniversary edition the festival also includes four additional special programmes combining visual media with in-depth discussions about filmmaking and human rights between Human Rights Watch experts and independent human rights advocates including Charif Kiwan, spokesman for a Syrian film collective,...
- 2/3/2016
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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