- New Zealand Human Rights Film Festival
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New Zealand Human Rights Film Festival 
Promotional poster for 2006 festivalLocation 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.
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Films
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2005 features
- Behind the Labels
- Shipbreakers
- Mother's Crossing
- Sacrifice: The Story of Child Prostitutes from Burma
- Mercy
- Burma Report
- Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Columbia
- The Fourth World War
- Hamburg Cell
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.
External links
Categories:- Film festivals in New Zealand
- Human rights in New Zealand
- Documentary film festivals
- Human rights film festivals
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