Selections from the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival: THE RECKONING
Date(s): 09.30.09 | Wed
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Location: Room 312
Sponsor: Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
Speaker: The Reckoning
Affiliation: Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival
As a participant in the 2009 Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival, the Leitner Center will screen three of its films, one each in September, October, and November.
The selection for September is THE RECKONING, an insightful documentary that follows two riveting dramas—the prosecution of unspeakable crimes and the International Criminal Court’s fight for justice.
The International Criminal Court represents the most ambitious attempt ever to apply the rule of law on a global scale and to protect the most basic human rights. THE RECKONING follows ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo for three years across four continents as he and his team tirelessly issue arrest warrants for Lord’s Resistance Army leaders in Uganda, prepare to put Congolese warlords on trial, challenge the UN Security Council to bring Sudan's president to justice for the Darfur massacres, and shake up the Colombian justice system. Moreno-Ocampo has a mandate but no police force. At every turn he must put pressure on the international community to muster political clout for the cause. Will the court succeed and will the world ensure that justice prevails?
THE RECKONING was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival 2009.
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