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A rather unusual film festival

Mandira Nayar

NEW DELHI: It will be a fight for what is right on the big screen. While activists have lectured non-stop on human rights at forums, demonstrated and even protested, they have now turned to the magic of the movies to get people to get converted. Bringing to the Capital films on human rights from different parts of the world is the Tri-Continental Film Festival that has become an annual feature in the human-rights calendar. Organised by Breakthrough, that works with human rights organisation by using popular culture, this is the second time the festival will come to the Capital.

Kicking off on January 21 at India Habitat Centre, the two-day festival has its share of powerful documentaries that give audiences a taste of varied issues from bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan, an ancient custom that has become more widespread after the country became independent, to a criminal court-room that most people have never been to in Brazil and even to Sri Lanka. There will be 16 documentaries screened at the festival and all of them have won critical acclaim all over the world.

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