Human rights and making films that matter
NOW in its fifth year, the ICCL Human Rights Film Awards 2013 take place at the Light House Cinema in Dublin tonight. The winner of this year’s competition will be announced following a screening of the nominated films. Members of the jury, which includes figures such as Kirsten Sheridan, Ken Wardrop, Brenda Fricker and Stephen Rea, will be part of the audience.
The films shortlisted this year are: Jimmy, a film about a venerable Scottish disability rights campaigner; No Enemies, an animated campaign video for the Frontline Defenders organisation; Mums & Dad, an intimate film about gay parenting which attests to the diversity of family forms in Ireland; The Battle of Benghazi, a fictional drama about two children at play while war rages in Libya; and, finally, The Value of Women in the Congo, a bracing documentary about the horrifying prevalence of rape in Congo.
