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Watch Docs in Warsaw

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Paweł Kononczuk 09.12.2016 12:22
Sixty documentaries from around the world will be screened at the Watch Docs festival, focusing on human rights and kicking off in Warsaw on Friday.
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Festival director Maciej Nowicki, of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, said that the films will tackle topics including populism, freedom of speech and the dangers faced by journalists in their work.

American writer Jonathan Littell, the winner of a Goncourt Prize, will be a special guest.

His directorial debut “Wrong Elements” will open the festival. The film tells the story of child soldiers serving in the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda in the late 1980s.

Watch Docs, now in its 16th year, is one the world's largest annual events dedicated to human rights on celluloid.

This year's film fest runs until December 15.

Entry to all festival events is free. For more information go the festival's website.

(pk)

Source: IAR

tags: film, Watch Docs
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