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This year, the Human Rights International Film Festival focuses on four themes: the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, unjust punishment, elections and democracy, and, as always, women's issues. In addition, it features a retrospective of the leading South Korean filmmaker, Park Kwang-Su. Here is a description of these Festival highlights, followed by the full 1996 Film List.

Festival Highlights

PARK KWANG-SU RETROSPECTIVE

BERLIN REPORT
BLACK REPUBLIC
CHILSU AND MANSU
A SINGLE SPARK
TO THE STARRY ISLAND

This year's Festival will host the first New York retrospective of the works of internationally acclaimed South Korean director Park Kwang-Su, whose most recent work, A Single Spark won kudos in this year's Berlin International Film Festival. Acknowledged as the leader of the New Cinema in South Korea, Park has consistently explored the points of tension in his homeland's history and society. Justly famous for the thorough and meticulous preparation he puts into each project, Park is respected as the kind of demanding director who achieves such stunning results that actors clamour to work with him. Park Kwang-Su will be in attendance and will hold discussions following the screenings of his films.

CHRONICLING COEXISTENCE

ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE
FORBIDDEN MARRIAGES IN THE HOLY LAND
INTEZAAR
ON THE EDGE OF PEACE
119 BULLETS + THREE
TALE OF THREE JEWELS
WORDS AND WRITERS/THEATER OF LIFE
YOU, ME, JERUSALEM

The Festival features a touring program of films and videos from Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers that have been made since the historic 1993 signing of the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Accord. These personal works portray the complex and contradictory emotions, circumstances, and beliefs affecting all parties as the struggle to find peace unfolds.

QUESTIONABLE PUNISHMENT

THE FLOR CONTEMPLACION STORY
HOW THE HELL DID THEY SURVIVE?
I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
LOST IN MISSISSIPPI
PROCEDURE 769

Five films in the 1996 Festival deal with forms of questionable punishment, including the death penalty, chaingangs, and the taking of political prisoners.

ELECTIONS AND DEMOCRACY

CAMPAIGN MANAGER
DAYS OF DEMOCRACY
OLLIE'S ARMY
THE PARALLAX VIEW
PRIMARY

As this is a Presidential election year in the U.S., the Festival is featuring a series on elections and democracy. including Alan Pakula's masterpiece The Parallax View starring Warren Beatty. Mr. Pakula will attend and answer questions following the screening. A voter-regestration booth will be posted at the door to the theater throughout the run of the Festival to encourage audiences to vote.

DAMES BOND

BLACK KITES
CALLING THE GHOSTS
CEASE FIRE: BELFAST/SARAJEVO
DAYS OF DEMOCRACY
DEVIL'S CHILDREN
THE FLOR CONTEMPLACION STORY
A HOT ROOF
OUR BURMESE DAYS

Each year the Festival devotes an entire day and evening to films made by and about women addressing women's rights around the world. Headlining this year's "Women's Day" are Devil's Children and Calling the Ghosts, which deal with rape as a war crime in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina respectively.

1996 Film List

ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE || Amir Feldman | Israel | 1995 | 45 min.

AMNESIA || Gonzalo Justiniano | Chile | 1994 | 90 min.

BERLIN REPORT || Park Kwang-Su | South Korea | 1991 | 100 min.

BLACK KITES || Jo Andres | USA | 1995 | 26 min.

BLACK REPUBLIC || Park Kwang-Su | South Korea | 1990 | 100 min.

CALLING THE GHOSTS || Mandy Jacobson/Karmen Jelincic | USA | 1996 | 60 min.

CAMPAIGN MANAGER || Richard Leacock/Noel Parmentel | USA | 1964 | 30 min.

CEASE FIRE: BELFAST/SARAJEVO || Baudoin Koenig | France | 1995 | 52 min.

CHILSU AND MANSU || Park Kwang-Su | South Korea | 1988 | 108 min.

DAYS OF DEMOCRACY || Attiyat El-Abnoudi | Egypt | 1996 | 90 min.

DEVIL'S CHILDREN || Annie Arnou/Stev Van Thielen | Belgium | 1995 | 30 min.

THE FLOR CONTEMPLACION STORY || Joel Lamangan | Philippines | 1995 | 120 min.

FORBIDDEN MARRIAGES IN THE HOLY LAND || Michel Khleifi | UK/Belgian/Palestinian | 1995 | 66 min.

A HOT ROOF || Lee Min-Yong | South Korea | 1995 | 108 min.

HOW THE HELL DID THEY SURVIVE? || Trix Betlam | The Netherlands | 1993 | 53 min.

HUNTERS OF UTOPIAS || David Blaustrin | Argentina | 1995 | 145 min.

I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG || Mervyn LeRoy | USA | 1932 | 72 min.

IDIR AND JOHNNY CLEG, A CAPELLA || Jean Jaques Birte/Patrice Barrat/Kim Spencer | France | 1994 | 60 min.

INTEZAAR || Rashid Masharawi | UK/Palestinian | 1995 | 26 min.

THE LAND IS WHITE, THE SEED IS BLACK || Koto Bolofo | South Africa | 1995 | 67 min.

LOST IN MISSISSIPPI || Jim Chambers | USA | 1996 | 85 min.

MASS GRAVE || João Godoy | Brazil | 1995 | 30 min.

OLLIE'S ARMY || Brett Morgen | USA | 1996 | 60 min.

ON THE EDGE OF PEACE || Ilan Ziv | Israeli/Palestinian | 1995 | 103 min.

119 BULLETS + THREE || Yeud Levanon | Israel | 1996 | 62 min.

OUR BURMESE DAYS || Lindsey Merrison | Germany | 1995 | 90 min.

OUR HEEDLESS WARS || Randa Chahal Sabbag | France | 1996 | 61 min.

THE PARALLAX VIEW || Alan J. Pakula | USA | 1974 | 102 min.

PRIMARY || Robert Drew | USA | 1960 | 60 min.

PROCEDURE 769 || Jaap van Hoewijk | The Netherlands | 1995 | 85 min.

A SINGLE SPARK || Park Kwang-Su | South Korea | 1995 | 100 min.

STRUGGLES IN STEEL || Tony Buba/Ray Henderson | USA | 1995 | 80 min.

TALE OF THREE JEWELS || Michel Khleifi | UK/Belgian/Palestinian | 1994 | 112 min.

TELL THE TRUTH AND RUN || Rick Goldsmith | USA | 1996 | 110 min.

THAT RUSH! || Isaac Julien | USA | 1995 | 6 min.

THE THIRD WAVE || Norman Cowie | USA | 1995 | 4 min.

TO THE STARRY ISLAND || Park Kwang-Su | South Korea | 1994 | 102 min.

TV NATION || Michael Moore | USA | 1995 | 90 min.

WHERE CREDIT IS DUE || David Wilson Scott/Michelle Genece | USA | 1995 | 12 min.

WORDS AND WRITERS/THEATER OF LIFE || Amos Gitai | Israel | 1994 | 90 min.

YELLOW WASPS || Ilan Ziv/Rory O'Connor | USA | 1995 | 69 min.

YOU, ME, JERUSALEM || Micha X. Peled/George Khleifi | Israeli/Palestinian | 1995 | 53 min.

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