Twenty-four features and documentaries from 19 countries will screen at the New York edition of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival June 8 - 22 at the Walter Reade Theater. Highlights from the fest include a benefit screening of "The Refugee All Stars" by Zach Niles and Banker White about a group of six Sierra Leonean musicians who, after being displaced by war, form a band while living in a refugee camp in Guinea. Also slated is the story of two Somali families who journey from a refugeee camp to the U.S. in "Rain in a Dry Land." This year's Nestor Almendros Prize for "courage in filmmaking" will be presented to James Longley,...
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