[Hamp-law] Law Program Human Rights Films continue

[Flavio Risech]

*Law Program Human Rights Films Series*

A series of films old and new dealing with a range of topics in human 
rights is being screened by the Hampshire Law Program during the Fall 
2011 semester. Starting off with the 1961 Hollywood blockbuster 
"Judgment at Nuremberg", the series continued with "The Specialist", a 
documentary on Nazi extermination bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann's trial in 
Jerusalem. Please join us for the next installments. Pizza and drinks 
will be provided.
All screenings at 7pm.

October 17, FPH 105: "Calling the Ghosts" (1996, 60 minutes running 
time). Two Bosnian women, a lawyer and a judge, are imprisoned in a 
Serbian rape camp during the Bosnian war. They survive and search for 
justice for women like themselves whose lives have been devastated by 
systematic sexual abuse inflicted as part of a genocidal campaign. 
Written primarily by the women themselves, this documentary explores 
what it means to be raped because of one's gender and ethnic identity 
and how victims might begin to think about what justice, and life after, 
might look like. In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.

October 24, FPH 101: "Long Night's Journey into Day". Dramatic 2001 
documentary about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 
bringing survivors of racist repression under apartheid face to face 
with government torturers and killers. Can amnesty in exchange for full 
confession by perpetrators achieve justice or national unity? Running 
time 94 minutes.

November 7, in FPH 101: "The Secret in Their Eyes" (El Secreto en sus 
Ojos). Argentina, 2009, in Spanish with English subtitles. A 
nerve-wracking fictional thriller about the Dirty War (1977-1983) and 
its aftermath twenty years later. A government death squad thug gets 
away with a brutal political murder...or does he? Running time 120 minutes.

-- 
Flavio Risech
Associate Professor of Law
School of Critical Social Inquiry
Hampshire College
Amherst MA 01002
413.559.5504 voice
413.559.5620 fax
frisech at hampshire.edu

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