Michael Glawogger's Workingman's Death attests that the non-fiction film need not look as harsh as its subject matter, but in embossing third-world conditions, thus suppressing vital social insight, the film may have set a dangerous standard. The 17th annual Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, a co-presentation between the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Human Rights Watch, is blessed not to have a film as specious as Workingman's Death lubing up its lineup, but only a few months after its theatrical release the film's influence is only now gestating in the imaginations of impressionable filmmakers, which means it may be another two years before we can accurately gauge Glawogger's pull. On the other hand, George W. Bush's human rights violations have fully caught up with today's documentary filmmakers, whose disquisitions on the effects of our rogue president's war on terror account for three works in this year's lineup: James Longley's Sundance triple-crown winner Iraq in Fragments, Javier Corcuera's Winter in Baghdad, and Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross hybrid doc drama The Road to Guantanamo. This year's entries scan human rights violations new and old, far and wide: Michael Caton-Jones's Shooting Dogs dramatizes what happened inside a Kigali school over the course of six days during the 1994 Rwanda massacre, Source takes a hard look at the effects of oil drilling on an Azerbaijani community, and Rosita chronicles how the rape and subsequent pregnancy of a nine-year-old girl politically disemboweled the nations of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. But it is Kz, which looks into the abyss of a former concentration camp, that towers supreme. You may scoff ("Another film about the Holocaust?"), but director Rex Bloomstein believes we still haven't learned everything we could from Hitler's war. Mixing complex moral and social inquiry with an original aesthetic approach, Bloomstein metaphysically scrutinizes our relationship to history, providing a philosophical lesson the Glawoggers and Bushs of the world could stand to learn. If your righteous indignation is roused, put it to good use by donating to Human Rights Watch. Hover over the dots on the map below for select reviews of films featured in this year's program, and for a full schedule of films and ticket information please see the festival's main program.