New Zealand Human Rights Film Festival

New Zealand Human Rights Film Festival
New Zealand Human Rights Film Festival

Promotional poster for 2006 festival
Location New Zealand
Founded 2005
Hosted by New Zealand Human Rights Network
Official website

The New Zealand Human Rights Film Festival was a film festival held in 2005 and 2006. It was an initiative of the New Zealand Human Rights Network, an independent, non-partisan, non-government organisation formed in 2000. Held during the month of May, the festival was the first human rights-themed film festival held in New Zealand, and ran a series of screenings in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Contents

Films

2005 features

2006 features

  • 1000 Women and a Dream
  • Bhopal: The Search for Justice
  • Breaking Bows and Arrows
  • The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium and the Dying Children
  • Drowned Out
  • Frozen Angels
  • A Letter to the Prime Minister: Jo Wilding’s Diary from Iraq
  • Lost Children
  • Mardi Gras: Made in China
  • On the Spot
  • Ngatahi: Know the Links (Festival Cut One)
  • Passabe
  • The Real Thing : Coca, Democracy and Rebellion in Bolivia

2006 shorts

  • Azadi
  • Dual Injustice: Feminicide and Torture in Ciudad Juarez
  • The Best Kept Secret
  • From Prison to Frontline: Portering for SPDC Troops
  • Daughters of Belen
  • United
  • Voices from the Salween Valley
  • Vuka Vrcevica – A Violation of Housing Rights
  • Winner Every Day

School screenings

The festival also runs screenings for registered local schools, providing information packs for students and answering questions with question-and-answer sessions after the screenings.

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