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Human Rights Watch 15th International Film Festival

An amazing drama highlighting the painful, personal suffering, discrimination and secrecy surrounding HIV/AIDS, in this case in South Africa, was shown at the Ritzy cinema, Brixton, featuring in The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Life, Above All (Chanda's Secret), showed the young girl, Chanda keeping the secrets of Mum's HIV positive condition; her friend's child prostitution, facing danger and alienation on the streets in men's, sometimes much older men's vehicles plying her trade, risking HIV/AIDS infection, and beatings.

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Human Rights Watch Film Festival: When We Leave

When We Leave is an all too real drama leaving a tearful audience at the Human Rights Watch 15th International Film Festival, at its UK premiere at the Curzon Soho. Female Director, Feo Aladag widely researched the topic of domestic violence and what happens in a typical Muslim community, based in Turkey in this film, when the wife determines to leave her husband, hoping to retain custody of her boy child.

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Human Rights Watch 15th International Film Festival: Women Art Revolution

Women Art Revolution caused excitement at the 15th Human Rights Watch International Film Festival at the ICA. Artists and non-artists were treated to a painstaking tribute to the feminist art movement by artist/ filmmaker, Lynn Hershman Leeson. She was unable to attend the screening of the well-researched and received film, 40 years in the making! In the Q/A on Skype, Lynn said she never intended shooting a film when she started documenting on camera/film, interviews, pictures, installations, footage of artists and live art performances of women.