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Celebrating films - both fact and fiction - with a distinctive Human Rights theme, the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival has been running since 1994. This year's programme features a strong documentary line-up, including Sundance winners and . Among the stand-out fiction films on display are Oscar-winner and fellow Oscar nominee .

The festival ran at venues across London, Toronto and San Francisco earlier in the year. The festival is currently running in Chicago, until May 17 and the New York line-up - running from June 14 to 28 - has been announced. Read with director Sam Lawlor.

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Black Gold
A documentary examining the inequities of the coffee trade.

 The Devil Came On Horseback
One man's mission to tell the world about genocide in Sudan.
Suffering And Smiling
Documentary about musician and political activist Femi Kuti and the legacy of his father's push for a better life for the people of Nigeria.

 Total Denial
Fighting the multinationals in Burma through US courts.
Carla's List
Documentary about the pursuit of war criminals in the former Yugoslavia.

 El Violin
An old violinist tries to help his son's guerrilla faction.
Rosita
Documentary about a Nicaraguan girl aged nine who gets pregnant after being raped and has to fight for an abortion.

 Enemies Of Happiness
Sundance award-winning documentary about Malalai Joya's campaign to be elected to the Afghanistan parliament.
Hot House
Sundance award-winning exploration of the rising tide of Palestinian leadership within Israel's jails.

 We'll Never Meet Childhood Again
Documentary charting children who have grown up with HIV in Romania and the extraordinary people who have looked after them.
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