This year's Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, a co-presentation between the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Human Rights Watch, features one of the strongest lineups in the program's history. Twenty films and three shorts, in addition to a special New Visions screening of two works-in-progress (
A Jihad for Love and
Project Kashmir), decorate this 18th edition of the festival. Among the New York premieres: the Algerian War drama
Mon Colonel, co-written by Costa-Gavras;
Carla's List, about prosecutor Carla Del Ponte's daunting journey to pursue criminals who perpetuated crimes against humanity in the former Yugoslavia;
Election Day, which charts incidents of voter fraud, disenfranchisement and general ineptitude during our 2004 presidential election; and
Manufactured Landscapes (pictured above), which ruminates, according to the program, on "the aesthetics and social and spiritual dimensions of globalization around the world today" in a manner evocative of Michael Glawogger's
Workingman's Death and Nikolaus Geyrhalter's
Our Daily Bread. Click on the titles on the map below for a synopsis or review of each of this year's films. Note: With the exception of
The Violin, which takes place in an unnamed Latin American country, titles are arranged on the map according to their general geographic focal point, while the countries listed in the review titles indicate the place(s) of origin. For a full schedule of films and ticket information please see the festival's
main program.