‘A Double Life’ with Director & Producer Catherine Masud
Monday, April 1st 4:00 - 6:00 PM
The Dodd Center for Human Rights, Konover Auditorium
Join the Human Rights Film+ Series for a screening of A Double Life with director/producer Catherine Masud, the film’s protagonist Steve Bingham, and Columbia University lecturer/author Luca Falciola. Stay after for a catered reception in the Dodd Lounge.
‘Sama in the Forest’ with Coralynn V. Davis
Monday, March 25th 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Homer Babbidge Library, Class of ’47 Room
Join the Human Rights Film+ Series for a screening of Sama in the Forest with film producer and academic Coralynn V. Davis. This community-based production delves into the subversive role women’s folktales can play in a patriarchal society. Set in the region of Mithila, in India, Sama in the Forest explores the power of stories to shape, challenge, and change our understanding of the world.
Unconquered: Goražde - Documenting Resistance in the Bosnian War
Tuesday, March 7th 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The Dodd Center for Human Rights, Konover Auditorium
Join us for the first U.S. screening of scenes from a documentary under development profiling how ordinary townspeople withstood a three-and-a-half-year siege during the Bosnian War. Watch the trailer here. This exclusive work-in-progress screening is followed by a conversation with author/filmmaker Fiona Lloyd-Davies and producer Nick Stuart about the significance of the siege of Goražde.
‘Testimony’ with Award-Winning Filmmaker & Photojournalist Ron Haviv
Tuesday, February 15th 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Conference Room 162, The Dodd Center for Human Rights
Join us for a compelling presentation by award-winning filmmaker and photojournalist Ron Haviv, featuring excerpts from his own films and photography documenting conflict and human rights abuses. This event is supported by the Department of Digital Media & Design, the Department of Journalism, and the Human Rights Film & Digital Media Initiative at the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute. Ron Haviv is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, award-winning photojournalist, and co-founder of the photo agency VII, dedicated to documenting conflict and raising human rights issues around the globe. He is also the co-founder of the non-profit VII Foundation, which concentrates on documentary projects and provides free visual journalism education.
Keep My Words Forever - Human Rights Film+ Series
Tuesday, November 28th 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Conference Room 162, The Dodd Center for Human Rights
With an innovative take on documentary filmmaking, Roma Liberov traces the life of famed 20th-century poet Osip Mandelstam from his rise to eventual political exile with an experimental mix of cinema, animation, puppetry, music, and literature. Keep My Words Forever takes a creative documentary approach to telling the story of one of Russia’s greatest poets, Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938). Combining fragments from Mandelstam’s memoirs and poetry with experimental artistic techniques of cinema, animation, puppetry, music, and literature, the film traces the majesty and tragedy of the poet’s life journey, from his rise as a leading European literary figure to his exile and death in the remote regions of Russia’s Far East.
Days in Mariupol - Human Rights Film+ Series
Thursday, October 19th 4:00 PM
Konover Auditorium, The Dodd Center for Human Rights
20 Days in Mariupol is Mstyslav Chernov’s first feature film, after nearly a decade covering international conflicts, including the Russia-Ukraine war, for the Associated Press. The film draws on Chernov’s daily news dispatches and personal footage of his own country at war. It offers a vivid, harrowing account of civilians caught in the siege, as well as a window into what it’s like to report from a conflict zone, and the impact of such journalism around the globe. Following the screening, we encourage you to stay for a discussion and reception with Katja Kolcio, James Waller, Catherine Masud.
Northeast Human Rights Film Festival
Friday, May 19, 2023 - Sunday, May 21, 2023
The Dodd Center for Human Rights
The Northeast Human Rights Film Festival (NEHRFF) is a three-day forum for screening and discussion of compelling films and digital media projects that address contemporary human rights issues. In addition to film screenings, filmmakers will have the opportunity to engage with other filmmakers, scholars, and practitioners for skills training, advocacy, and impact strategy development. Festival attendees will have the opportunity to engage in dialogue around critical issues related to human rights film.
“Women, Life, Freedom: Iran’s Uprising & the Power of Digital Media”
Wednesday, November 16th 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Konover Auditorium, The Dodd Center for Human Rights
How is today’s movement in Iran different from earlier movements? Speaking from her background as an Iranian women’s rights activist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker, Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh will explore how phone cameras, digital media, and social media are changing the nature of progressive movements in Iran, helping to build broader-based alliances where the young generation, particularly women, are in the lead.
“Tacheles - The Heart of the Matter”
Monday, March 28th 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Virtual
Yaar is a young Israeli living in Berlin, refusing being a Jew. He accuses his father of suffering from the Holocaust, although he never experienced it firsthand. In order to face his own family history, he decides to communicate the Holocaust in a new way: in a computer game. Together with his two German friends, he creates a 1940s Germany in which Jews can defend themselves and Nazis can act humanely. His father is shocked. “Tacheles - The Heart of the Matter” shows how the trauma of the survivors affects the third generation. By blurring the truth and switching the roles of victims and perpetrators, can anyone cope with his own history?
“American Insurrection”
Thursday, February 10th 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Virtual
In the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, FRONTLINE, ProPublica, and Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program team up in “American Insurrection” to examine how far-right extremist groups have evolved in the wake of the deadly 2017 Charlottesville rally — and the threat they pose today.
“Letters from Nuremberg”
Wednesday, October 20th 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Virtual
The student-created film “Letters from Nuremberg” will be screened, followed by a discussion with students, Senator Christopher Dodd, and representatives from University Archives and Special Collections around the theme “Nuremberg: Yesterday and Today.”
Latino Heritage Month Film "Singing our Way to Freedom"
Wednesday, September 15th 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Virtual
Singing Our Way to Freedom is a multilayered look at the life of Chicano musician, composer, and community activist Ramon “Chunky” Sanchez. Borrowing from musical traditions on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, Chunky uses music and humor as powerful weapons in fighting for social justice. Following a screening of the film, Sam Martinez will host a virtual Q&A with director Paul Espinosa.
